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with 16 service ribbons including from top left to bottom right; Legion of Merit, Bronze Star, Navy & Marine Corps Commendation, Purple Heart, unknown horizontal blue/yellow/red with attached bronze star, WWII American Defense medal with attached bronze star, WWII Asiatic-Pacific Campaign with attached bronze star, WWII American Campaign, WWII Victory, National Defense Service, Korean Service with two attached bronze stars, United Nations Service, & Korean Presidential Unit Citation. This lot also includes 5 ca 8" x 10" photographs of the General. Brigadier General Gordon D. Gayle was a veteran of WWII and the Korean War. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in June 1939 and was commissioned a Marine second lieutenant. In 1940 he was assigned to the 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division with which he served in three Pacific campaigns: Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester and Peleliu, about which he writes and speaks (Bloody Beaches: The Marines at Peleliu), and for which he was awarded the Navy Cross. He served with the 1st Marine Division in Korea in field and staff positions. In the 1960s he chaired the Long Range Study Panel at Quantico, developing concepts for the Corps' operational, organizational, logistical and R&D needs for the 1985 period, and was promoted to Brigadier General during this service in 1964. After retiring from the Marine Corps in 1968, he joined Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies, where he worked on a study of the U.S. involvement in Vietnam, among other studies. Condition: Excellent.