re: #445 ConservatismNow!
That I am unsure of. He was in first Raider Battalion. I know that much. I had the esteemed pleasure of going with him to the opening of the WWII memorial in Washington DC and to the Marine Corps Museum on Quantico
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That put him in the 4th Marines — the “New Fourth”, formed in 1944 by consolidating the Raider battalions. My Dad was never in one of the Raider Bns, but IIRC, he WAS in the 4th on Okinawa.