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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 Second Marine Division, which passed in review at the Marine base on Barnett Ave. yesterday, a few minutes after the orders were read creating a complete marine division for the first time in the corps’ 165 years of existence. Eight thousand officers and men swung into line on the parade ground as the new streamlined division; eventually to number 10,000, was created, with Maj. Gen. Clayton B.

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