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2. 23d Marine Regiment (United States) - Wikipedia

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   Starting at Kwajalein, the 23d Marines was assigned to land on beaches red 2 & 3 at Roi. That island was taken in a day. Saipan came next with the 23d Marines assigned to blue beaches 1 & 2 with third Battalion 20th Marines as their Shore Party (121st Seabees). Across the strait at Tinian the 23d Marines was the assault reserve landing on beach ...

3. Robert Leckie (author) - Wikipedia

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   As a young man, he served with the 1st Marine Division during World War II; his service as a machine gunner and a scout during the war greatly influenced his work. Leckie's war memoir, Helmet for My Pillow , along with Eugene B. Sledge 's book With the Old Breed , formed the basis for the HBO series The Pacific (2010), the follow-up series to ...

4. 2nd Battalion, 23d Marines - Wikipedia

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   2nd Battalion, 23rd Marines was the first complete infantry reserve battalion to deploy in support of the Iraq War. U.S. Marines from 2nd Battalion, 23rd Marine Regiment fire a Mk 153 Shoulder-Launched Multipurpose Assault Weapon during UNITAS-Partnership of the Americas 2012 at Camp Blanding. 2/23 pushed forward into Iraq on 20 March 2003.

5. Americal Division - Wikipedia

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   Following the withdrawal of the 1st Marine Division, the division continued operations on Guadalcanal as part of the U.S. XIV Corps with the 25th Infantry Division (who later earned their 'Tropic Lightning' nickname here) and the 2nd Marine Division (Arrived earlier as reinforcements to the 1st MarDiv) until all of the Japanese resistance had ...

6. 3d Battalion, 23d Marines - Wikipedia

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   3d Battalion, 23rd Marines was assigned the G-Day missions of (1) providing security in the division zone forward of the Saudi defensive berm, which was located on the Saudi-Kuwait border, prior to G-Day; (2) passing through the breach lanes, and: (3) clearing its zone of action to support the attack north, and (4) screening to the northeast in ...

7. 1st Battalion, 23d Marines - Wikipedia

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   The 23rd and 24th Marine Regiments led the division's assault with 1/23 being the left Assault Battalion on yellow beach 1. They landed from APA 158 the USS Newberry . [ 3 ] The 23rd Marines were ordered to seize the Motoyama Airfield #1 for the 133rd Seabees to get operational.

8. List of allied military operations of the Vietnam War (1969)

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   Operation Keystone Cardinal [1] 3rd Marine Division redeployment from South Vietnam to the United States: Sep 21 – Oct 28: Operation Putnam Cougar [1] 2nd Brigade, 4th Infantry Division clear and search operation: Bình Định Province: Sep 27 – Oct 7: Operation Hancock Flame [1] 3rd Battalion, 506th Airborne Infantry Regiment clear and ...

9. Matterhorn (novel) - Wikipedia

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   Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War is a novel by American author and decorated Marine, Karl Marlantes. It was first published by El León Literary Arts in 2009 (in small quantity) and re-issued (and slightly edited) as a major publication of Atlantic Monthly Press [ 1 ] on March 23, 2010.