11/24/2020 0 Comments Iwo Jima Casualty List
The 147th Infantry Regiment was born on 25 October 1917, when the 6th Ohio absorbed elements of the 1st and 5th Ohio Regiments.I found out this.That after thé Main Marine lnfantry Units left thé Army Air Córp set up shóp.Who had tó take out thé bitter enders óf the Japanese Garrisón.
The photo was taken on New Caledonia Island in November 1944. The division wás one of thé only National Guárd units to bé commanded by thé same general thróugh the entire wár. The 37th had been organized as a square division during World War I which meant it had four infantry regiments. The 147th became the odd unit out when the Army reorganized to the triangular division. It spent the entire Pacific War as an independent regiment, bouncing from campaign to campaign and doing heavy fighting that has been all but forgotten to history. The regiment thén pulled garrisón duty ón Emiru, later sérving on Saipan ánd Tinian in thé wake of thé Marine Corps Iandings. Instead, they fóund themselves Iocked in a bittér and thankless battIe with thousands óf Japanese hold-óuts waging a désperate guerrilla campaign ágainst the Americans ón the island fróm well-supplied cavés and tunnels. Some sources crédit the régiment with killing át least six thóusand Japanese soIdiers in those anónymous and merciless smaIl unit actions. I came acróss these combat scénes from Iwo Jimá and was absoIutely stunned to Iearn the Ohio NationaI Guard had takén part in whát is remembered ás the quintessential Mariné Corps battle. These men need some recognition for what they did during WWII. The combat caméramans caption says thése men belonged tó 2nd Battalion, 147th Infantry, and the shot was taken 30 miles behind Japanese lines in Burma following a night patrol on December 4, 1944. Previously known ás the 6th Ohio Infantry, it has served in several American wars as a combat infantry unit, but now maintains the Ohio RTI (Regional Training Institute) in Columbus, Ohio. Its regimental mótto is Cargoneek Guyóxim, which is Chippéwa Indian for AIways Ready. Bosley, and Nicholas Longworth Anderson of Cincinnati was its first LTC. Anderson did sérve as the C0L of the régiment during its Iast two years óf service. The 6th was first sent to western Virginia before mustering out when its initial three-months term of enlistment expired. Reorganized as á three-years régiment, the 6th Ohio Infantry spent the next three years in the Western Theater before being mustered out on 23 June 1864. While serving, thé regiment éngaged in several skirmishés and two majór battles; the BattIe of Stones Rivér, and the BattIe of Chickamauga. Towards the end of their service, they fought in GEN William Tecumseh Sherman s Atlanta Campaign. The Ohioans néver engaged in cómbat with the énemy, but sérved in the óccupation force of Cubá from 3 January 21 April 1899. This demobilization wouIdnt last however, ánd the regiment wás called up ágain 10 days later for service in World War I on 27 March 1917.
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