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2dLt W.B. Jackson, USMC
77th Company, 6th Machine Gun Battalion
W.B. Jackson enlisted in the Marines as a private, but was
commissioned in the middle of Sept., 1918. (This promotion is not shown in the
History of the Sixth Machine Gun Battalion, where he is listed as a private, but it
is shown in Spaulding's The Second Division, American Expeditionary Force, in France).
As a 2dLt, Jackson commanded a platoon at Blanc Mont, where he won the Croix de Guerre with Palm, and in the Arogonne, where he was
seriously wounded by shrapnel.
Jackson's closest friend, with whom he enlisted and with whom he went through training and the war,
was Olin Butterfield winner of the the Distinguished Service Cross and Navy Cross.
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