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2. History of U.S. Marine Corps Operations in World War II

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   A separate section describes Marine aviation during the campaigns for the Marianas, Carolines, and Iwo Jima. Volume V: Victory and Occupation (1968) by Benis M. Frank and Henry I. Shaw, Jr. [5] Half of this volume is devoted to the final campaign of World War II, the invasion and capture of Okinawa.

3. World War II United States Merchant Navy - Wikipedia

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   A United States World War II recruiting poster for the merchant marine. World War II United States Merchant Navy was the largest civilian Navy in the world, which operated during World War II. With the United States fighting a world war in all the world oceans, the demand for cargo and fuel was very high. Cargo and fuel was needed around the ...

4. Service number (United States Navy) - Wikipedia

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   Instead of the first number indicating a decade, this number now specified a recruiting district code. By the start of World War II, the Navy was regularly issuing enlisted service numbers from the two through nine hundred series (200 00 01 - 999 99 99) with the first number indicating a recruiting code and the last six a personal identifier.

5. Military Personnel Records Center - Wikipedia

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   Coordinates: 38.7736°N 90.2307°W. The Military Personnel Records Center (NPRC-MPR) is a branch of the National Personnel Records Center and is the repository of over 56 million military personnel records and medical records pertaining to retired, discharged, and deceased veterans of the U.S. armed forces. Its facility is located at 1 Archives ...

6. Category : United States Marine Corps in World War II

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   United States portal. The category includes sub-categories for United States Marine Corps shore commands, bases, formations and units and afloat formations and units during World War II; as well as significant engagements, battles, and historical events participated in by US Marines. Wikimedia Commons has media related to United States Marine ...

7. List of United States divisions during World War II - Wikipedia

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   The following is a list of United States Army and United States Marine Corps divisions of World War II. The United States began the war with only a handful of active divisions: five infantry and one cavalry. By the end of the war, the nation had fielded nearly one hundred. The number of divisions fielded by the United States Army in relation to ...