Alexander Vandegrift Photographs | World War II Database


Young Vandegrift, circa 1914-16	US Marine Corps officers Pedro del Valle, Thomas Holcomb, and Alexander Vandegrift inspecting 11th Marine Regiment at Camp Lejeune, Jacksonville, North Carolina, United States, 1942

Richmond Turner and Alexander Vandegrift aboard USS McCawley looking at maps of the Tulagi-Guadalcanal operation in the Solomon Islands, circa Jul-Aug 1942	Vandegrift at a field desk on Guadalcanal, circa Aug-Dec 1942

US 1st Marine Division staff at Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, Aug 1942	Admiral Chester Nimitz awarding Lieutenant Colonel Evans Carlson a gold star to his Navy Cross medal, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, 30 Sep 1942

Generals Thomas Holcomb and Alexander Vandegrift on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, 1942	LGen Thomas Holcomb (left front), Col Merritt Edson (right rear), and MGen Alexander Vandegrift touring Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, Nov 1942

USMC Colonel Amor Sims and USMC General Alexander Vandegrift reviewing US 7th Marines Regiment, 1943	Alexander Vandegrift and William Halsey at Nouméa, New Caledonia, Jan 1943

MGen A. Vandegrift, Col M Edson, 2Lt M. Paige, and Plt. Sgt. J. Basilone at US 1st Marine Division Medal of Honor ceremony, Balcombe, Australia, 21 May 1943, photo 1 of 2	MGen A. Vandegrift, Col M Edson, 2Lt M. Paige, and Plt. Sgt. J. Basilone at US 1st Marine Division Medal of Honor ceremony, Balcombe, Australia, 21 May 1943, photo 2 of 2

Leo Hermle, Alexander Vandegrift, and Julian Smith looking at a Newsmap, New Zealand, 21 Sep 1943	Franklin Roosevelt with USMC pilot Kenneth Walsh at the White House, Washington DC, United States, 8 Feb 1944; note Adm Ernest King, LtGen Alexander Vandegrift, Asst Secretary of Navy Ralph Bard, and Mrs Walsh

Geiger, Spruance, H. Smith, Nimitz, and Vandegrift at Guam, 11 Aug 1944	Vandegrift portrait, 12 Feb 1945

Alexander Vandegrift and Lewis Puller, circa 1946	Chester Nimitz, Dwight Eisenhower, Harvard President James Conant, Henry Arnold, Alexander Vandegrift, and William Cleary at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, 1946

Vandegrift portrait, circa 1945-47