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Lewis Burwell Puller Jr. (August 18, 1945 – May 11, 1994) was an attorney and a United States Marine Corps officer who was severely wounded in the Vietnam War. He won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for his autobiography Fortunate Son.
12 mag 1994 · Lewis B. Puller Jr., who won the Pulitzer Prize for chronicling his fight against despair and alcoholism after he lost both legs while serving in Vietnam, died this afternoon. He was 48 years...
Puller's son, Lewis Burwell Puller, Jr. (generally known as Lewis Puller), served as a Marine lieutenant in the Vietnam War. While serving with 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines (2/1), Lewis Jr. was severely wounded by a mine explosion, losing both legs and parts of his hands.
2 mar 2024 · Lewis B Puller, Jr., who transformed his years of struggle with physical and emotional ravages of Vietnam War into a Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography, shot and killed himself yesterday (11 May 1994) at his Fairfax Country, Virginia, home.
23 mag 1994 · Lewis B. (“Chesty”) Puller had won his general’s stars leading his regiment to safety in the harrowing American retreat from the Chosin Reservoir during the first winter of the Korean War ...
11 ott 2018 · Born in Virginia on June 26, 1898, Lewis Burwell “Chesty” Puller wanted to enlist in the United States Army to fight Mexicans in the Border War of 1916 but could not get parental consent from his mother.
14 mag 1994 · Lewis B. Puller Jr.'s was one such death. It happened on Wednesday night, when Mr. Puller, who was 48, shot himself in the head at his home in suburban Virginia.
