Lemuel C. Shepherd Jr. (English Wikipedia)

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"Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps". Headquarters Marine Corps, USMC. Retrieved 2018-08-12. ...the official title "Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps" was adopted in 1946....The first Marine designated as the Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps, Major General Lemuel C. Shepherd, Jr. held the billet from October 17, 1946 to April 14, 1948.

Meid, Pat, Lieutenant Colonel, USMCR; Yingling, James M., Major, USMC (1972). U.S. Marine Operations in Korea 1950–1953 (PDF). Vol. V Operations in West Korea. Washington, D.C.: Historical Division, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps. p. 159.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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"Marine monument seen as symbol of hopes, dreams". Spokane Daily Chronicle. Washington. Associated Press. November 10, 1954. p. 2.
"Memorial honoring Marines dedicated". Reading Eagle. Pennsylvania. Associated Press. November 10, 1954. p. 1.

"Gen. Shepherd's Record of Hard Fighting, High Awards" (PDF). The 'VMI' Cadet. Vol. XLX, no. 9. Lexington, Virginia: Virginia Military Institute. Nov 20, 1959. p. 3. Retrieved Apr 21, 2014.^{[permanent dead link‍]}

"Our History". U.S. Army 2D Infantry Division/ROK-US Combined Division. United States Army. Archived from the original on 16 August 2016. Retrieved 15 May 2017.
"50 Facts about the Marine Corps: #46". Cougar Scream. 1 (XXIII). USS Washington newsletter. November 8, 1941. Archived from the original on May 9, 2008. Retrieved November 2, 2008. In August 1922, a detachment of U. S. Marines was assigned to duty at the Brazilian Centennial Exposition, held at Rio de Janeiro, as an evidence of the cordial relations existing between the Brazilian and American Governments.

Cited in B.Gen. Clayton C. Jerome's memo to ViceAdm Cassady, RAdms Soucek, Duckworth, Pride, and Goe, of 19 Sep. 1950, available on page 187 here