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IN REPLYING ADDRESS
COMMANDANT OF THE MARINE CORPS
WASHINGTON 25, D. C.
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[Letterhead:
HEADQUARTERS U. S. MARINE CORPS
WASHINGTON]

16 September 1948

My dear Mrs. Moorefield:

I am directed by the Commandant of the Marine
Corps to forward to you the following posthumous awards
to which you are entitled as the next of kin of the late
Sergeant Jewell H. Spears, U. S. Marine Corps:

Copy of Presidential Unit Citation with ribbon
bar and one star awarded the Assault Troops of
the Fifth Amphibious Corps, Reinforced, - service
on Iwo Jima, Volcano Islands

American Defense Service Medal

Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal

Victory Medal World War II.

Sincerely yours,
[signature]
L. S. HAMEL,
Colonel, U. S. Marine Corps.

Enclosures: 5.

Mrs. Eva E. Moorefield,
706 Forest Avenue,
High Point, North Carolina.