Note 476 — APPENDIX B Build-Up of 1st Marine Division (Reinf)

Activated 17 Aug 50. The 3d Bn 6th Marines, in the Mediterranean, was assigned to the 7th Marines and, upon arrival in Kobe, Japan, on 3 Sept 50, was redesignated the 3d Bn 7th Marines. Augmentation personnel for this Battalion arrived in Kobe, Japan, on 14 Sept 50 on the USS Thomas Jefferson. The regimental commander and his staff arrived by air at Kobe on 6 Sept 50.