Cpl. Lawrence Diggs 100th Birthday

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Cpl. Lawrence Diggs, a Marine veteran of World War II, reads a personal letter from the Commandant of the Marine Corps, Gen. Eric Smith, during Diggs' one hundredth birthday celebration in Chicago, Ill., on May 4, 2024. Diggs, a native of Inverness, Miss., was drafted in 1943 and underwent recruit training at Montford Point, N.C. He served with the 7th Ammunition Company, 1st Marine Division, during the war in the Pacific Theater. After hostilities ceased and the war ended in 1946, Diggs returned to the United States, received a promotion to Corporal, and was subsequently discharged on May 11, 1946. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Dalton J. Payne)

240504-M-VB420-1065.JPG Photo By: Sgt. Dalton Payne

May 16, 2024

CHICAGO, Ill. - Cpl. Lawrence Diggs, a Marine veteran of World War II, reads a personal letter from the Commandant of the Marine Corps, Gen. Eric Smith, during Diggs' one hundredth birthday celebration in Chicago, Ill., on May 4, 2024. Diggs, a native of Inverness, Miss., was drafted in 1943 and underwent recruit training at Montford Point, N.C. He served with the 7th Ammunition Company, 1st Marine Division, during the war in the Pacific Theater. After hostilities ceased and the war ended in 1946, Diggs returned to the United States, received a promotion to Corporal, and was subsequently discharged on May 11, 1946. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Dalton J. Payne)

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