User:Hungrydog55/sandbox/military/pacificfront/1943-01 CapeGloucester oob
Appearance
US Forces
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Capture of Peleliu
[edit]III Marine Amphibious Corps
- Major General Roy S. Geiger
1st Marine Division[1]
- Major General William H. Rupertus
- Asst. Div. Cmdr.: Brig. Gen. Lemuel C. Shepherd (to 11 Apr), Brig. Gen. Oliver P. Smith[a]
- Chief of Staff: Col. Amor L. Sims (to 3 Feb), Col. Oliver P. Smith (to 29 Feb), Col. John T. Selden
- CO HQ Battalion: Col. Joseph F. Hankins (KIA 3 Oct), Lt. Col. Austin C. Shofner[b]
- Personnel officer (G-1): Maj. William E. Benedict (to 23 Sep), Lt. Col. Harold O. Deakin
- Intelligence officer (G-2): Lt. Col. John W. Scott Jr.
- Operations officer (G-3): Lt. Col. Lewis J. Fields
- Logistics officer (G-4): Lt. Col. Harvey C. Tschirgi
- sector
1st Marine Regiment
- Colonel Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller[c]
- Exec. Ofc.: Lt. Col. Richard P. Ross Jr.
- 1st Battalion (Maj. Raymond G. Davis)
- 2nd Battalion[d] (Lt. Col. Russell E. Honsowetz)
- 3rd Battalion (Lt. Col. Stephen V. Sabol)
- Co. A of the following:
- sector
- sector
5th Marine Regiment
- Colonel Harold D. "Bucky" Harris
- Exec. Ofc.: Lt. Col. Lewis W. Walt
- 1st Battalion (Lt. Col. Robert W. Boyd)
- 2nd Battalion (Maj. Gordon D. Gayle)
- 3rd Battalion[e] (Lt. Col. Austin C. Shofner[f] (to 15 Sep), Maj. John C. Gustafson)
- Co. B of the following:
- sector
- sector
7th Marine Regiment
- Colonel Herman H. "Hard-Headed" Hanneken
- Exec. Ofc.: Lt. Col. Norman Hussa
- 1st Battalion (Lt. Col. John J. Gormley)
- 2nd Battalion (Lt. Col. Spenser S. Berger)
- 3rd Battalion (Maj. Edward H. Hurst)
- Co. C of the following:
- sector
- Landed after First Waves on D-Day
11th Marine Regiment (Artillery)
- Colonel William H. Harrison
- Exec. Ofc.: Lt. Col. Edison L. Lyman
- 1st Battalion (Lt. Col. Richard W. Wallace)
- 2nd Battalion (Lt. Col. Noah P. Wood, Jr.)
- 3rd Battalion (Lt. Col. Charles M. Nees)
- 4th Battalion (Lt. Col. Louie C.Reinberg)
- Landed after First Waves on D-Day
- Other units
- 12th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion
- 1st Amphibian Tractor Battalion
- 3rd Armored Amphibian Tractor Battalion
- 4th, 5th, 6th Marine War Dog Platoons
- UDT 6 and UDT 7
- Other units
Notes
[edit]- ^ While commanding the 1st Marine Division at the Chosin Reservoir during the Korean War, Smith announced, "Retreat, hell ... we're just advancing in a different direction."
- ^ Captured on Corregidor, Shofner took part in the only successful escape from a Japanese POW camp.
- ^ Became the most decorated Marine in the history of the Corps.
- ^ Robert Leckie, later a prolific author on military topics including the best-selling Helmet for My Pillow, was wounded while serving in Company H of this unit.
- ^ Eugene B. Sledge, author of the noted memoir With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa, served in Company K of this unit.
- ^ Captured on Corregidor, Shofner took part in the only successful escape from a Japanese POW camp.
- ^ Clark, pp. 64-66