The first combat action for the USMC was Pearl Harbor (12/7/41). Units taking part include:
Marine Barracks, Navy Yard, Pearl Harbor
Marine Barracks, Naval Ammunition Depot, Oahu
Marine Barracks, NAS Ford Island
Marine Barracks, NAS Kaneohe Bay
Marrine Detachment, Ewa Mooring Mast Field
Rear Echelon, 1st Defense Battalion
3rd Defense Battalion
4th Defense Battalion
Rear Echelon, 6th Defense Battalion
2nd Engineer Battalion (- Companies C & D)
2nd and 3rd Platoons, Company A, 2nd Service Battalion
Marine Ship's Detachments, Pacific Fleet (877 Marines onboard USS Nevada
(BB36), USS Oklahoma (BB37), USS Pennsylvania (BB38), USS Arizona
(BB39), USS Tennessee (BB43), USS California (BB44), USS Maryland
(BB46), USS West Virginia (BB48), USS New Orleans (CA32), USS San
Franisco (CA38), USS Raleigh (CL7), USS Detroit (CL8), USS Phoenix
(CL46), USS Honolulu (CL48), USS St. Louis (CL49), USS Helena (CL50) and
USS Utah (AG16).
The last combat action of World War II, took place on the island of Guam, 11-15 December, 1945. Japanese holdouts ambushed an Island Command, Guam patrol, killing three men. Sentries were fired upon in other areas. The 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marines, elements of the 9th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion and Guamanian Police conducted a five day operation that resulted in six Japanese dead and 20 prosioners. While there were holdouts that remained for years, there were no further overt hostile acts.
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The reason that the American Army does so well in wartime, is that war is chaos, and the American Army practices chaos on a daily basis.
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