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2nd Battalion, 8th Marines was activated on 1 April 1940 in San Diego as the 2nd Battalion 8th Marine Regiment and assigned to the 2nd Marine Brigade. The 2nd Marine Brigade was re-designated 1 February 1941 as 2nd Marine Division. During World War II, the battalion participated in the Battle of Guadalcanal, Battle of Tarawa, Battle of Saipan ...
1st, 3rd and 4th Ranger Battalion Battle of Cisterna: January 30, 1944 (1 day of combat) 767 311 450 761 [18] [19] 99 Germany: 1st, 3rd and 4th Ranger Battalions destroyed. [20] 1st Ranger Battalion reconstituted on 1 September 1948. [21] 3rd Ranger Battalion redesignated on 21 June 1954. 4th Ranger Battalion disbanded. [20] 1st Marine Regiment ...
The 8th Marine Regiment was an infantry regiment of the United States Marine Corps.When last active, it was based at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, and fell under the command of the 2nd Marine Division and the II Marine Expeditionary Force.
At 00:35 the 2nd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment and 2nd Battalion, 19th Artillery Regiment in a night defensive position at Firebase Carolyn 7 miles (11 km) south of Katum was attacked. The contact continued until 06:00 when the PAVN withdrew leaving 101 dead and 29 captured and 47 individual and 23 crew-served weapons captured; U.S. losses ...
The 2nd Marine Division (including 1/8) remained as an amphibious reserve from 1–10 April 1945, when it was sent back to Saipan to minimize casualties from Kamikaze attacks off the coast of Okinawa. In late May, the 8th Marines of the 2nd Marine Division finally got a meaningful role in the closing weeks of the Okinawa campaign. Colonel ...
Operation Nevada/Operation Lien Ket 34 was a 1st Battalion, 2nd Marines, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines, ARVN 2nd Division and VNMC search and destroy operation on the Batangan Peninsula, Quảng Ngãi Province. The operation resulted in 68 VC and three ARVN killed.
The base was occupied by Companies A and E, 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry, B Battery, 2nd Battalion, 12th Artillery and B Battery, 2nd Battalion, 19th Artillery. The PAVN then launched infantry attacks on the base perimeter but were beaten back by dawn. U.S. losses were 13 killed, while 74 PAVN dead were found in and around the base. [23]: 617–8
During the battle, the South Vietnamese sources claim that they lost 977 killed and 4,300 wounded (Marine division only) [5] [11]: 126 The ARVN Airborne Division also sustained heavy casualties, its 2nd Airborne Brigade was annihilated after two weeks: the 5th Battalion (600 men) suffered 98 killed and 400 wounded and the other two battalions ...