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Description: PLEASE FOLLOW OUR E BAY STORE SEE ALL PICS SALE SEE OUR STORE PLEASE READ WHOLE ADD PLEASE SEE STORE LOT MORE --COMBINE SHIPPING SAVE $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$3rd Marine Division12 languagesArticleTalkReadEditView historyToolsFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia3rd Marine Division3rd Marine Division insigniaActive1942–1945, 1952–presentCountry United States of AmericaBranch United States Marine CorpsTypeGround combat elementSizeMarine DivisionPart ofIII Marine Expeditionary ForceGarrison/HQCamp Courtney[1]Nickname(s)"Fighting Third" "Caltrap"Motto(s)Fidelity, Valor, HonorEngagementsWorld War IIBattle of BougainvilleBattle of GuamBattle of Iwo JimaSecond Taiwan Strait CrisisVietnam WarOperation StarliteFirst Battle of Khe SanhOperation HastingsOperation BuffaloOperation KingfisherOperation KentuckyOperation Virginia RidgeOperation Idaho CanyonTet OffensiveBattle of Khe SanhCon ThienOperation Desert StormBattle of KhafjiWar on TerrorOperation Enduring FreedomCommandersCommanding GeneralMaj. Gen. Christian F. WortmanSergeant MajorSgtMaj Robert W. SchielerNotable commandersCharles D. Barrett Graves B. Erskine William E. Riley William R. Collins Wood B. Kyle Rathvon M. Tompkins Bruno Hochmuth Raymond G. Davisshow3rd Marine Division (1942–1945)The 3rd Marine Division is a division of the United States Marine Corps based at Camp Courtney, Marine Corps Base Camp Smedley D. Butler in Okinawa, Japan. It is one of three active duty infantry divisions in the Marine Corps and together with the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing (1stMAW) and the 3rd Marine Logistics Group (3rd MLG) forms the III Marine Expeditionary Force (III MEF). The division was first formed during World War II and saw four years of continuous combat in the Vietnam War. Today, elements of the 3rd Marine Division are continuously forward deployed and forward postured to carry out the US Government's mission of a Free and Open Indo-Pacific in conjunction with its sister services.Organization 2024[edit]3rd Marine Division organization March 2024 (click to enlarge)As of March 2024 the 3rd Marine Division consists of:[2] Headquarters Battalion 3rd Marine Littoral Regiment 4th Marine Regiment (Infantry) 12th Marine Littoral Regiment 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion Jungle Warfare Training Center, Okinawa (Transitioning to TECOM)History[edit]World War II[edit]3rd Marine Division, 2nd Raider's sign on BougainvilleA young Marine waits on the beach at Da Nang in Vietnam during the Marine landing, March 8, 1965.U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Eric Kassow, a rifleman with 3d Marine Division, provides security during the 3d Marine Division Rifle Squad Competition at Camp Gonsalves, Okinawa, JapanU.S. Marines with 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion, 3rd Marine Division conduct parachute operations by jumping out of a KC-130 Hercules Okinawa, JapanU.S. Marines with 3rd Battalion, 12th Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division, conduct a fire mission with a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System during an Expeditionary Advance Base Operation exercise at the Northern Training Area, Okinawa, Japan, June 18, 2020. This 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment-led exercise also features participation from 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion and HIMARS from 3rd Battalion, 12th Marine Regiment. Training events like this strengthen 3rd Marine Division’s ability to control key terrain in a contested battlespace. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Donovan Massieperez)The 3rd Marine Division was officially activated on September 16, 1942 at Camp Elliott, San Diego, California.[3] Most of the original members of the division were drawn from the cadre staff of the 2nd Marine Division.[4] The division was initially built around the 9th Marine Regiment, commanded by Colonel Lemuel C. Shepherd, Jr. who later became the 20th Commandant of the Marine Corps. Major General Charles D. Barrett was the first commanding general of the division.The division deployed into Auckland, New Zealand, between January and March 1943. In June of that year, it moved onto Guadalcanal for additional training, stopping first at Efate, New Hebrides for rehearsals (16-20 October 1943) and Santo, New Hebrides (21-29 October 1943) for shipboard-staging. 1 November 1943 saw the division land as part of the Battle of Bougainville and fight on the island until their last unit to arrive, the 21st Marine Regiment, embarked on 9 January 1944. During the course of the battle the division had about 400 Marines killed.[5]The division returned to Guadalcanal in January 1944 to rest, refit, and retrain. The next operation in which the division took part was the Battle of Guam. From 21 July 1944 until the last day of organized fighting on 10 August, the division fought through the jungles on the island of Guam. During these 21 days of fighting, the division captured over 60 square miles (160 km2) of territory and killed over 5,000 enemy soldiers.[6] The next two months saw continuous mopping up operations in which the Marines continued to engage leftover Japanese forces. At the end of the battle the division had sustained 677 Marines killed, 3,626 wounded, and nine missing.[7]The division remained on the island of Guam for training, until it embarked as part of the landing force for the Battle of Iwo Jima. The 3rd Marine Division was initially in reserve for the battle.[8] However, the division was committed one regiment at a time when the initial regiments that landed there needed to be relieved.The 21st Marines came ashore on 21 February[8] followed by the 9th Marines, 12th Marine Regiment, 3rd Tank Battalion, on 24 February.[9] The Marines of these two infantry regiments, supported by the artillery of the 12th Marine Regiment and tanks of the 3rd Tank Battalion, fought on Iwo Jima until the end of organized resistance on 16 March and the subsequent mopping up operations for the next month. All elements of the division were back on Guam by 17 April 1945.[10] The fighting on Iwo Jima cost the 3rd Marine Division 1,131 killed in action and another 4,438 wounded.[11]After the return to Guam, the division began preparing for the invasion of Japan. This invasion never took place since Japan surrendered on 15 August 1945. The 3rd Marine Division was decommissioned on December 28, 1945 at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, CA.[12][3]During the war, the 3rd Marine Division had three Seabee Battalions assigned to it. The 25th Naval Construction Battalion (NCB) was posted to 19th Marines as the third battalion of the regiment. These landed on Bougainville, as did the 71st NCB which was assigned as the 3rd Division's shore party there.[13]The 25th NCB also landed during the assault on Guam as the shore party to the 3rd Marine Regiment, after which the 19th Marines were deactivated, and the 25th NCB was reassigned. The 62nd NCB was then posted TAD to the 3rd for Iwo Jima. They were in the reserve, but they became the lead battalion in getting airfield No. 1 operational, after of the many casualties taken by the primary assault Seabees,[14] the 133rd NCB.[citation needed] Asiatic–Pacific Campaign Medal Asiatic-Pacific Campaign MedalObverseTypeService medalPresented byDepartment of War and Department of the NavyEligibilityServed in the U.S. armed forces for at least 30 days in the Asiatic-Pacific Theater between December 7, 1941, and March 2, 1946.StatusInactiveFirst awardedDecember 7, 1941Last awardedMarch 2, 1946 Service ribbon and campaign streamer.PrecedenceEquivalentAmerican Campaign Medal European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign MedalPhotograph of an Asiatic–Pacific Campaign Medal with one silver campaign star and two bronze campaign stars, representing seven campaigns.The Asiatic–Pacific Campaign Medal[1] is a United States military award of the Second World War, which was awarded to any member of the United States Armed Forces who served in the Asiatic-Pacific Theater from 1941 to 1945. The medal was created on November 6, 1942, by Executive Order 9265[2] issued by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The medal was designed by Thomas Hudson Jones; the reverse side was designed by Adolph Alexander Weinman which is the same design as used on the reverse of the American Campaign Medal and European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal.US Navy - Marine Corps campaigns[edit]The 43 officially recognized US Navy campaigns in the Pacific Theater of Operations are:[5]Pearl Harbor: Pearl Harbor-Midway: 7 December 1941Wake Island: 8–23 December 1941Philippine Islands operation: 8 December 1941 – 6 May 1942Netherlands East Indies engagements: 23 January – 27 February 1942Pacific raids (1942): 1 February – 10 March 1942Coral Sea: 4–8 May 1942Midway: 3–6 June 1942Guadalcanal-Tulagi landings: 7–9 August 1942 (First Savo)Capture and defense of Guadalcanal: 10 August 1942 – 8 February 1943Makin Raid: 17–18 August 1942Eastern Solomons: 23–25 August 1942Buin-Faisi-Tonolai raid: 5 October 1942Cape Esperance: 11–12 October 1942 (Second Savo)Santa Cruz Islands: 26 October 1942Guadalcanal: 12–15 November 1942 (Third Savo)Tassafaronga: 30 November – 1 December 1942 (Fourth Savo)Eastern New Guinea operation: 17 December 1942 – 24 July 1944Rennel Island: 29–30 January 1943Consolidation of Solomon Islands: 8 February 1943 – 15 March 1945Aleutians operation: 26 March – 2 June 1943New Georgia Group operation: 20 June – 16 October 1943Bismarck Archipelago operation: 25 June 1943 – 1 May 1944Pacific raids (1943): 31 August – 6 October 1943Treasury-Bougainville operation: 27 October – 15 December 1943Gilbert Islands operation: 13 November – 8 December 1943Marshall Islands operation: 26 November 1943 – 2 March 1944Asiatic-Pacific raids (1944): 16 February – 9 October 1944Western New Guinea operations: 21 April 1944 – 9 January 1945Marianas operation: 10 June – 27 August 1944Western Caroline Islands operation: 31 August – 14 October 1944Leyte operation: 10 October – 29 November 1944Luzon operation: 12 December 1944 – 1 April 1945Iwo Jima operation 15 February – 16 March 1945Okinawa Gunto operation: 17 March – 30 June 1945Third Fleet operations against Japan: 10 July – 15 August 1945Kurile Islands operation: 1 February 1944 – 11 August 1945Borneo operations: 27 April – 20 July 1945Tinian capture and occupation: 24 July – 1 August 1944Consolidation of the Southern Philippines: 28 February – 20 July 1945Hollandia operation: 21 April – 1 June 1944Manila Bay-Bicol operations: 29 January – 16 April 1945Escort, antisubmarine, armed guard and special operations: 7 December 1941 – 2 September 1945Submarine War Patrols (Pacific): 7 December 1941 – 2 September 1945 World War II Victory Medal For the medal awarded to merchant mariners, see Merchant Marine World War II Victory Medal.World War II Victory MedalObverseTypeService medalPresented byDepartment of War and Department of the NavyEligibilityServed in the armed forces between 7 December 1941 and 31 December 1946.StatusObsolete Service ribbon (top) and campaign streamer (bottom)PrecedenceNext (higher)European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign MedalEquivalentMerchant Marine World War II Victory MedalNext (lower)Army of Occupation Medal or Navy Occupation Service MedalThe World War II Victory Medal is a service medal of the United States military which was established by an Act of Congress on 6 July 1945 (Public Law 135, 79th Congress) and promulgated by Section V, War Department Bulletin 12, 1945.[1][2]

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