VOLUME 4
MONDAY, 14 JANUARY, 1946
NUMBER 2
TROOPS LEAvE CAMPEN-Thousands of Marines are leaving Cam Pen each week by rail heading for other separation centers after having been screened through Redistribution Regiment here. Above is a typical scene, showing troops crOWding the camp depot last week awaiting transportation to their point of discharge.
THIR.D DIVISION CAMP DUNLAP TO BE CLOSED THOUSANDS DISBANDED HERE AO~id~~~,NM~nn~!!~i! ~~~~~I,!!" Mann, LEAVE CAMPEN
Another far-famed fighting division of the Marine Corps has been disbanded! The Third Division, born at Camp Elliott, Calif., in the fall of 1942 and launched into battle at Bougainville in September of 1943, was disbanded here after a portion of the division was inactivated at Guam. The Third was activated under the command of Major General Allan H. Turnage In July of 1943 the Third took its second major crack at the enemy in the assault路 and recapture of Gu.am. ' Shortly before the attack on Iwo Jima, the division went to Guam for training and replacement and set sail for the Ryukyuson Feb~ary 15. 1945, under the command of Major General Graves B. Irs kine.
路groups.-the last being tanks from Camp Pendleton's Tracked Vehicle Battalion. Adual work on dismantling the camp was begun December 1, 1945, and is expected to be completed by March I, 1946. Ninety men are working daily dismantling equipment and loading it on Pendleton bound trucks. When their work Is finished. all that will be left of the camp that once echoed the reports of hundreds of artillery weapons will be the hulk of some 65 'buildings which were used as offices, warehouses, messhalls, shops and the like. All movPATTON THERE able material will have been taBesides its role in training ken to Camp Pendleton. cannoneers, the Niland camp provided training areas for Army FUTURE PLANS troops under the late General Plans for its future beyond Patton; a bombing range for March first will be in the hands planes from the nearby El Centro Marine Air Station, and a stagContinued on Page 8 ing and Replacement Command, San Diego Area, announced here today that Camp Robert H. Dunlap, located near Niland, California, would be closed as a marine activity on or about March. The 250,000 acre camp, which opened in October, 1942, played a large part in the training of Marine troops for com'bat during World War II. Used mainly as an artillery camp, Dunlap was training headquarters for the 10th, 12th and 13th Marine Artillery Regiments before they left the States for combat zones.
Many more CamPen
Marines
will become eligible for discharge
on Feb. 1 when a slash in discharge points reduces the critical score from 50 to 45, it was announced last week. Nearly 200,000 Marines have been released from service since V-J Day, it was reported, more than 50,000 of them being processed through Redistribution Regiment here. A survey is under way in camp at the present time, according to Capt. Paul Kerns, officer in charge of enlisted personel, to determine how many men in CamPen will be '8.ffected by the drop in point requi~ments. .In the meantime, thousands of men are being processed here for discharge or transfer to other separation centers while approximately 200 are 'being discharged each day.
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