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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nSomeone sent us their work on this fellow Eanos Thomas Evans<\/a>, who claims that he served in both the Second World War and the Korean War. His picture went out for “likes” on Facebook recently. I saw it, but I didn’t click on it;<\/p>\n He claims that he left the service as a First Lieutenant, according to his “Together We Served” Profile”;<\/p>\n In that rack, he claims the Silver Star, 2 Purple Hearts, Navy and Marine Corps Commendation w\/V, CAR, Navy Presidential Unit Citation (3), Navy Unit Commendation, Good Conduct, China Service Medal, American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, World War II Victory Medal, Navy Occupation Service Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Korea Service Medal,Navy & MC Overseas Service Ribbon, Marine Corps Drill Instructor Ribbon, Korean Presidential Unit Citation,China War Memorial Medal, United Nations Service Medal (Korea). <\/p>\n Well, you can throw out all of those medals for service in the Korean War. I don’t have his World War Two service records, so I’ll give him a pass on that, but according to his service records for the Korean War, he was a drill instructor for the entire war and never set foot outside the United States;<\/p>\n I’ll give him a break on the Combat Action Ribbon, because it didn’t exist when he left the USMC and when it was established on 17 February 1969, it was retroactive to 7 December 1941. But he’s wearing it upside down in the picture above. <\/p>\n There is a Silver Star and a Purple Heart (not 2) in his records, but there are no Korea service awards;<\/p>\n Eanos claims that he served on Okinawa and that may be true, I have nothing to refute that, but it seems to me that would be enough to last a man a lifetime of free beer at the VFW.<\/p>\n He claims that he saw his first combat at 17 years old, but he didn’t join the Marine Corps until he turned eighteen. His birthday was December 10, 1926 and he enlisted on December 9th, 1944, so he was technically 17 when he enlisted, but the next day he turned 18 – less than four months before the Battle for Okinawa (the battle began April 1, 1945). <\/p>\n In the Orange County Breeze<\/a>, he told that reporter that he joined when he was 16 years old, nope, he was 18 years old when he enlisted. He also told them;<\/p>\n He fought at Peleliu in September 1944 when he was 17 years old. Daytime temperatures reached 110\u00b0F and water tasted like diesel fuel. According to Military History Online, the 1st Marines defended the left flank of the landing force. The division then advanced along the West Road that ran beside the Mumurgrogol Mountains (dubbed Bloody Nose Ridge by the Marines) that sheltered a hardbitten Japanese defense force in an intricate series of caves.<\/p>\n But Lt. Evans\u2019 speech mentioned little about Peleliu.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n That was three months before he enlisted – the battle lasted from September to November 1944 – all before he enlisted in the Marine Corps. He was seventeen when the battle took place, but he wasn’t in the Marine Corps yet.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Eanos-Thomas-Evans-300x179.jpg\")
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