| Caption | African-American US Marines Staff Sergeant Timerlate Kirven and Corporal Samuel J. Love, Sr. having just been awarded Purple Heart medals, Saipan, Mariana Islands, 1944 ww2dbase | |||||||
| Source | ww2dbaseUnited States Marine Corps Joseph H. Carpenter Collection | |||||||
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| Added By | C. Peter Chen | |||||||
| Added Date | 30 Sep 2014 | |||||||
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| Licensing | Public Domain. According to the United States copyright law (United States Code, Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105), in part, "[c]opyright protection under this title is not available for any work of the United States Government". | |||||||
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The two men were of US 2nd Marine Regiment. They were the first black Marines to receive the Purple Heart decoration, which was given for those wounded or killed in combat with the enemy.