Amphibious Reconnaissance Battalion | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:56 1 Early history
00:05:24 1.1 Fleet Landing Exercises
00:09:05 2 Organization
00:09:15 2.1 Amphibious Corps, Pacific Fleet
00:12:23 2.2 Fifth Amphibious Corps
00:14:11 2.3 Fleet Marine Force, Pacific
00:14:53 2.3.1 Company to battalion
00:18:18 3 World War II-era
00:25:23 3.1 The Gilbert Islands
00:34:31 3.1.1 Tarawa, November 1943
00:35:30 3.1.2 Makin, November 1943
00:36:48 3.1.3 Apamama, November 1943
01:04:38 3.2 The Marshall Islands
01:07:15 3.2.1 Majuro, January–February 1944
01:22:37 3.2.2 Eniwetok, February–March 1944
01:37:28 3.3 The Mariana Islands
01:42:16 3.3.1 Saipan, June 1944
01:43:55 3.3.2 Tinian, July 1944
01:55:03 3.4 Iwo Jima, January–March 1945
02:05:26 3.5 Okinawa Islands, March–June 1945
02:18:46 3.6 Disbandment
02:19:41 4 Post World War II
02:19:51 4.1 2nd Amphibious Reconnaissance Battalion
02:22:25 4.2 Reconstruction
02:24:43 4.3 Marine Corps Test Unit One
02:25:41 5 Missions and training
02:25:50 5.1 Training
02:31:41 5.2 Mission statement
02:32:42 6 Notes
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SUMMARY
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The United States Marine Corps's Amphibious Reconnaissance Battalion, formerly Company, was a specialized team of Marines and Navy Corpsmen that performed clandestine preliminary pre–D-Day amphibious reconnaissance of planned beachheads and their littoral area within uncharted enemy territory for the joint-Navy/Marine force commanders of the Pacific Fleet during World War II. Often accompanied by Navy Underwater Demolition Teams and the early division recon companies, these amphib recon platoons performed more reconnaissance missions (over 150) than any other single recon unit during the Pacific campaigns.They are amongst the patriarch lineage of the Force Reconnaissance companies which still continue providing force-level reconnaissance for the latter Fleet Marine Force. Their countless efforts have contributed to the success of the joint-Marines/Army maritime landing forces assigned under the Navy fleet commanders during the island-hopping campaigns of the numerous atolls in the Pacific.
Their trademark of amphibious techniques utilized insertion methods under the cover of darkness by rubber boats, patrol torpedo boats, Catalina flying boats, converted high speed destroyer transport ships, or APDs, and submarines for troop transports. These Marines applied skills in topographic and hydrographic surveys by charting and measuring water depths, submerged coral heads, and terrain inland; taking photographs and soil samples for permeability for amphibious tractors and landing craft parties.
Their assignments included scouting or reconnoitering a planned, or potential landing site, and intelligence-gathering missions. These teams also evaluated the beaches looking for exits off the hostile beaches inland, for contingency measures if the Marine landing force were to necessitate a retreat. Most importantly, they compromised the locations of enemy forces, their strengths and weakness, and other importance in the follow-up of an amphibious assault.