World War II US Marine Infantry Regiments (Elite) by Gordon L. Rottman

Author:Gordon L. Rottman [Rottman, Gordon L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781472826077
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2018-07-25T23:00:00+00:00

1st Marines – 1st MarDiv

The first permanent 1st Marines Regiment was activated on November 27, 1913 as the 2d Advance Base Regiment. It served in Mexico in 1914, Haiti in 1915–16, and the Dominican Republic in 1916. There it switched designations with the 1st Regt of Marines on July 1, 1916, and deactivated at the end of that year. (Many histories of the 1st and 2d Marines ignore this switch of designations, and refer to them by their post-1916 designations throughout.) The 1st Regt was reactivated in January 1917 as a fixed defense force, then reorganized as infantry and deployed to Cuba at the end of 1918. It was deactivated in April 1922, reactivated that August, and deactivated again in July 1924. It was reactivated in March 1925 at Quantico, redesignated 1st Marines on July 10, 1930, and deactivated in November 1931. The 1st Marines was reactivated on March 1, 941 on Culebra Island, Puerto Rico from 5th and 7th Marines cadres, and assigned to the 1st MarDiv. The 1st MarDiv was based at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba until moving to Quantico in May 1941, and then to New River in June. Departing Virginia in May 1942, the division arrived in Wellington, NZ in June.

Immediately tasked with securing Guadalcanal, the 1st Marines followed the 5th Marines ashore on August 7, and through the Henderson Field defensive phase the 1st Marines defended the perimeter’s eastern sector. The westward push commenced on November 1, and the 1st Marines fought until December 22, when it was shipped to Brisbane, Australia and thence to Melbourne. Between September and November 1943 the 1st Marines staged to Goodenough Island.

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