From the Archives: 2nd Marine Division was activated 80 years ago in San Diego
Print In February 1941 the 2nd Marine Division was activated at a parade and review at at Camp Elliott, the Marine Corps Base in San Diego. During World War II some 60,000 Marines with the 2nd Division saw action in the Pacific. From The San Diego Union, Sunday, February 2, 1941: Marines Display War Equipment First Complete Division Formed Masses of marching, helmeted men; trucks, anti-aircraft guns, howitzers, rumbling tanks, light machine-guns, slim French 75s, marines with fixed bayonets on their Springfields, marines carrying the new Garand rifles... Such was the first parade of the Seco...
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