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1 4th Marine Division: Battle Plan; Landing Information Sheets, Saipan San Setter Newsletter YE R2 Journal Guadalcanal, 7 May 1942 Intelligence Reports Guadalcanal, 7 August October 1942, (2 Files) Regimental Training Memorandums, HQ, 8 th Marines, 2 nd Marine Bde, July August 1942: Japanese Tactics, Warfare and Weapons Report, Operations of the 1 st Para Bn, Solomon Islands Offensive, Tsimbaco Raid, 7-8 September 1942 Report, Operations of the 1 st Para Bn, Solomon Islands Offensive, Gavutu-Tanambogo, 7-8 August 1942 WAR COMES TO THE U.S. 7 DECEMBER 1941: The First 30 Hours, as reported to the TIME-LIFE-FORTUNE New Bureau from the U.S. and abroad. Battle Reports, Guadalcanal, Reconquest of the Philippines & Okinawa Twenty-second Marines Special Action Report, Okinawa campaign Operations of the 4 th Regiment Sept 1941-May 1942 (Corregidor) Tactical Groups, 2 nd Marine Division, Operation Galvanic, 25 October 1943 BATTLE REPTS, 24 TH MARINES ROI NAMUR FEB

2 FIELD JOURNAL, SAIPAN-TINIAN, 1944 BATTLE REPTS, SAIPAN, JUNE-JULY 1944 FINAL REPT ON TINIAN OP RCT 24, 7 SEP 44 BATTLE REPTS 24 TH MARINES, TINIAN, JLY-AUG 1944 BATTLE REPTS, 4 TH MAR DIV, IWO JIMA RCT 24. FEB MAR 1945 BATTLE REPTS, IWO JIMA BLT 2-24 WORKMAN 19 JAN 1945 FINAL REPT ON IWO JIMA OPERATION, 19 APR ACTIVITIES OF BLT 2/24 Interrogation and Reports of Japanese Prisoners during Battle of Cape Gloucester, 14 February March 1944 recorded by Corporal Edwin Dunmore, Jr. 2nd March Division OP Order OP Flintlock (Kwajalean), January-February 1944 Intelligence Annex to 2nd Marine Division, Report of Tarawa Operation, 20 December January nd Marine Division Narrative Account of Gilbert Islands Operation (Tarawa) th Marines Intelligence Summaries, 8 December February

3 Twenty-second Marines Special Action Report, Okinawa Campaign Operations of 4th Regiment, September 1941-May 1942 (Corregidor) Tactical Groups, 2nd Marine Division, Operation Galvanic, 25 October, 1943 Tactical Groups, 2nd Marine Division, Operation Galvanic, 25 October, 1943 Operations Journal Iwo Jima 24 February - 16 March 1945 Narrative Battle of Iwo Jima 19 February - 16 March 1945 G-2 Tactical Study of the terrain of Workman ISL 10 November 1945 G.2 Special of the Enemy Situation Iwo Jima Operational Order January 1945 Blt 2/24 Field Journal Iwo Jima Intelligence Section 19 February - 17 March th Tank Battalion Rept Annex Jig to 4th Marine Division Operations Report Iwo Jima 2nd Armored Amphibian Tank Rept Annex Mike to 4th Marine Division Operations Report Iwo Jima 3

4 10th Amphibian Tractor BN Rept Annex Oboe to 4th Marine Division Operations Report Iwo Jima Landing Information Blt 2/24 Map Inlays Iwo Battle of Tarawa Eldon M. Meyer The Movement and Activities of the Fourth Marine Regiment November 27-May 6, 1942 Iwo Jima Intelligence Worksheet Co "G" 2nd Battalion 24th Marines Combat Report Battle on Namur Island February 1-3, 1944 HQ 2nd Battalion 24th marines Recommendations for Future Operations War Diary, 6th Defense Battalion, June 1-30, th Defense Battalion, Chronological Record of the attack on Midway, June 4,1942 Action Report, Iwo Jima February 19-March 27, /26 5th Marine Division HQ V Amphibious Corps Training, Memorandum 25-44" Reconnaissance Patrol Landing on Hostile Shores, March 28,

5 Narrative: Battle of Iwo Jima February 19-March 16, HQ 2/24 4th Marine Division Guadalcanal Fast Firefight Japanese situation on Iwo Jima Lieutenant General Kuribayashis Communiques 6th Marine Division on Okinawa Shima G-2 Summary Manuscript, "The Red Kunai Grass Bends': A Documentary Story of the Campaign for Guadalcanal August 7, 1942-February 9, 1943 by Lieutenet Coronel Wallace B. Stanford, Jr., United States Marine Corps (Retired) 1979 Operations Pestilance and Watchtower 2nd Marine Division Report on the Gilbert Islands Iarawa Operation (2 folders) Manuscript, "Marine Activities in Europe and Africa in WWI by Carolyn Tyson, April 2, 1965 Excerpts from Stateside Newspapers about the 6 th Marine Division on Okinawa Superbreed II 1 st Marine Division s photographs Cape Gloucester, (2 files) The Conquest of Okinawa 6 th Marine Division by Major Phillips D. Carlton, USMCR The First Marine Division on Okinawa April 1-June 30, 1945 by Captain R. Stockman, United States Marine Corp 5

6 Iwo Jima copies of Intelligence Reports Ct/28 February 19-March 25, 1945 Manuscript, 17 th Marines Engineer A History, Cape Gloucester Operation Manuscript, The Twenty Ninth Marines, thesis by Christian E. Clemensen, B.S. Northern State Teachers College, Aberdeen, SD, 1946; Battle of Okinawa 6

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