3rd Marine Division

LINEAGE

Activated 16 September 1942 at Camp Elliott, California.
Inactivated 28 December 1945 on Guam.

COMMANDERS IN COMBAT

Major General Allen H. Turnage - Assumed command September 1943
Brigadier General Alfred H. Noble - Assumed command September 1944
Major General Graves B. Erskine - Assumed command October 1944

ORDER OF BATTLE

Headquarters Battalion, 3rd Marine Division
3rd Engineer Battalion
3rd Tank Battalion
3rd Pioneer Battalion
3rd Marine Regiment
9th Marine Regiment
21st Marine Regiment
12th Marine Regiment (Artillery)
3rd Service Battalion
3rd Medical Battalion
3rd Motor Transport Battalion

WORLD WAR II CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION

Bougainville, Guam, Iwo Jima