- Kurt Chew-Een Lee
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Major Kurt Chew-Een Lee, born in San Francisco, California, the first regular Marine Corps officer of Asian extraction.
Lee earned the Navy Cross under fire in Korea in September 1950, serving in the 1st Battalion 7th Marines; at the time this was a primarily Euro-American unit.
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Categories:- Korean War historians
- 1925 births
- United States Marine Corps officers
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