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North China Marines	4th Marines left in Shanghai
Colonel William W. Ashurst, at Peiping Major Luther A. Brown, at Tientsin Second Lieutenant Richard M. Huizenga, at Camp Holcomb Visit their web site at the NORTH CHINA MARINES, John Powers, webmaster (Son-In-Law of Corporal Harold "Doc" Hoffman).	Maj. Williams, Gregon A. PLT SGT Jackson, Boyd J. QM Clerk Chandler, Paul G. Chester Biggs book, Behind the Barbed Wire, lists: Warrant Officer Paul D. Chandler (QM C on Muster Role), 1st Sgt Nathan A. Smith (SGT on Muster Role), Supply Sgt Henry Kijak, and Staff Sgt Loren O. Schneider as left in Shanghai to settle business. The four individuals mentioned (Chandler, Smith, Kijak, Schneider) were left when the 4th left Shanghai. They were repatriated in 42 with the first repatriation ship. Edwin McCaulley of the Peking Embassy Guard (North China Marines) was the one repatriated in Sept 1943 as a civilian. If Smith was repatriated he would not have been a POW and would not have a record at NARA. From: John Powers, Historian, North China Marines
Cavite Marine Barracks	Olongapo Marine Barracks
Marine Barracks, Naval Yard, Cavite, P.I. The Cavite Marine Barracks predates the formation of the First Separate Battalion by many years. Surely someone has a little history than this ... In 1898, when the Americans came, the place was used as the seat of the U.S. Naval Forces in the Philippines. Government Administration was under the Presidentes Municipales" with the direct supervision of the American Army Officers (the first being Colonel Meade). The first Filipino "Presidentes Municipales" were appointed: Don Zacaria Fortich for Puerto de Cavite, Don Francisco Basa for San Roque, and Don Jose Raqueo Bautista for Caridad. During the early months of 1899, trouble with rebellious Filipinos intensified. On 9 March, Admiral Dewey cabled a request for Marines to be sent to support the naval base at Cavite, Manila Bay. The 1st Battalion, consisting of 16 officers and 260 enlisted men, was organized and placed under the command of Colonel P.C. Pope. About a month later, the battalion sailed from San Francisco and arrived at Cavite on 23 May. Additional Marines were requested, and in late September the 2d Battalion, consisting of 15 officers and 350 men, arrived at Manila Bay. This battalion was led by Major George F. Elliott. Throughout the remainder of the year, other Marines were sent to the Philippines and by December, a regiment had been formed to protect the naval base. The Philippine Commission, in May 1903, united the three pueblos (Cavite Puerto, San Roque and Caridad) to create the Municipality of Cavite. By virtue of a legislative act of the First Philippine Assembly, Cavite was made capital of the province. Subsequently, the territory was enlarged to include the district of San Antonio. In 1909, Executive Order No.124, of Governor-General W. Cameron Forbes, declared Act No.1748 annexing Corregidor and the Islands of Caballo (Fort Hughes), La Monja, El Fraile (Fort Drum), Sta. Amalia, Carabao (Fort Frank) and Limbones, as well as all waters and detached rocks surrounding them, to the Municipality of Cavite. Three 600-foot steel antenna towers were erected in 1915 for the operation of a powerful radio communications station, named Radio Sangley. Later on, a submarine support facility was established. The Cavite U.S. Navy Yard, just across Canacao Bay, became the major ship repair facility for the Asiatic fleet. The Canacao Naval Hospital Reservation was established on the western end. The US Navy continued to operate the hospital started by the Spanish. In the mid-1920's a modern new hospital was built as part of a major construction project to modernized the facility. The new hospital continued to serve the Navy and the local population until early 1942. Under the Philippine Commonwealth, the Municipality of Cavite was converted into a chartered city by the virtue of Commonwealth Act No. 547 approved on September 7, 1940. The Cavite Marine Barracks were absorbed into the newly arrived and reactivated 1st Separate Battalion (formerly 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines, Shanghai, China), on 1 May 1941.	In 1900 additional Marines were transferred to the Philippines and before the year ended the 1st Marine Brigade had been formed, consisting of four battalions organized into two regiments and two artillery companies. Marine detachments were placed in several of the towns within Cavite Province and others guarded the military prison for Filipinos, which was established at Olongapo. Throughout the year, most of the Marines' activities were centered upon guarding naval installations and administering the military government in several of the districts. The bulk of the Marine brigade was shifted to Olongapo during 1903, and small detachments of Marines continued to serve throughout the archipelago. The brigade was essentially maintained as a ready expeditionary force for use of the naval commander or to support the Army. By 1906, the Marine strength had been considerably reduced in the Philippines, and all but a few of the Marines were located at Cavite and Olongapo. The brigade was gradually reduced during the succeeding years and in 1914, when trouble began brewing in the Caribbean, it was disbanded and the duties were taken over by Marine Barracks, Olongapo. Marine Barracks, Naval Station, Olongapo, P.I., disbanded as of December 22, 1941, authority Regimental Special Order, Fourth Marines #142, dated December 22, 1941. The majority of officers and men were transfered to 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines, to fill out missing Companies. (I have the December 1941 Muster Roll, and the Regimental Special Order.)
First Separate Battalion	Mariveles Guard
Third Battalion, Fourth Marines has a long and proud heritage. The Battalion was originally activated on 1 October, 1925 at the U.S. Naval Operation Base, San Diego, California. It was deactivated 6 July 1926. Reactivated on 10 January 1927, the Battalion departed the continental United States for assigned duties in garrison at the International Settlement in Shanghai, China: earning the legacy of "China Marines." The Fourth Marine Regiment was officially redesignated the "Fourth Marines" on 13 February, 1930. On the same date, letter designations replaced the numerical designations of the companies. In Third Battalion, Fourth Marines, the 19th Company became Company "I", the 21st Company became Company "K", the 22d Company became Company "L", and the 24th Company became Company "M". Redeployed, reactivated and redesignated First Separate Battalion 1 May 1941, at Cavite, Philippine Islands, and absorbed the Cavite Marine Barracks. Relocated during December 1941 to Corregidor. Designation changed from 1st Separate Battalion to 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines January 1, 1942, authority Regimental Order, No. 1-1942. (I have the December 1941-April 1942 Muster Rolls, and the Regimental Order.)	Detachment from the Cavite Marine Barracks, and later the 1st Separate Battalion. Surely someone has a little history.
USAFFE-USFIP	Marine Air Warning Unit
2 Officers and 71 men, Marine Guard Detachment. Most captured on Bataan. Dick Long had done a nice piece about them "MARCH" posted at another web site.	2 Officers and 50 men (communications specialists), operatiing a SCR-270B mobile, long-range radar. Most captured on Bataan. Dick Long had done a nice piece about them "WARNING" posted at another web site.
Brief History of "C" Battery, 4th Marine provided by Robert A. Clement (Sent to Dad April 1990. Found by mom May 2008) Lightly Edited
PRE HOSTILITIES:         In August 1941, the Commanding Officer, Marine Barracks, Cavite, aksed the Navy if they had any weapons to help us do our mission when the war came. (MISSION -- to fight with whatever weapons were available. NOTE -- the arms limitation treaty with Japan prevented Congress from properly arm our troops in the Far East.)         We were invited to search the warehouses in the Navy Yard. We found a sizable number of Navy Guns, most beyond repair. By cannibalizing we put together twelve (12) three inch (3") guns, fifty caliber (50cal) dual purpose (surface to air) machine guns (which were in excellent working condition), and three (3) altimeter-fire control systems that were workable. All of these were obsolete (WWI relics). New more modern weapon syatems had replaced these on Destroyers.         By the middle of September we had formed three (3) anti-aircraft batteries, with 4 guns each. Each battery had a complement of two (2) Officers and seventy-eight (78) Men, including a Navy Corpsman. By the end of September, these three (3) batteries had deploysed outside of the Cavite Navy Yard.         "A" Battery was located at Sangley Point, a mile to the North. "B" Battery was set up at Caradad, near the beach, about a mile West. "C" Battery, of which I was a member, was located at Binakayan, where the Imus River empties into the Bacoor Bay, a mile South of the Navy Yard. HOSTILITIES:         The well armed Japanese were pushing the U.S. and Phillipine Army back on all fronts. "A" and "B" Batteries were destroyed in defense of Cavite.         On 21 December 1941, "C" Battery was ordered to Bataan. Leaving our guns intact, we reported to Sangley Point. Early on 22 December we boarded the USS Pillsbury for transportation, and debarked at the Quarintine Station, Marveles, Bataan, later that day. The day after Christmas we were notified that our guns and ammunition had arrived at Marveles.         We located a large, dry, rice paddy along the beach road between the Quarintine Station and the Navy Section Base. (Located near a nice sandy beach, but it was never a hit with the battle weary soldiers and sailors. Our bothers in arms dubbed it "Death Vally". The Japanese called it the Marveles Fortress over their Radio Manila.) Our personnel worked long hard hours getting our guns in place and sandbagged in.         On 29 December 1941, "C" Battery was manned and ready. We remained in position until Bataan fell on 9 April 1942. Our mission ther was to protect the Navy Facilities, including the floating dry dock, USS Dewey.         "C" Battery was credited with shooting down nineteen (19) enemy aircraft; four (4) other pobable sot downs, and many more badly damaged and sent away smoking.         On 9 April 1942, with the fall of Bataan, we destroyed our guns (the 3" and 50cal). Then reported to the Quarintine Station. There we caught the last tug boat to Corregidore.. Uopn our arrival, "C" Battery was disbanded, and our personnel sent throughout the Third Battalion to fill the ever increasing number of gaps in the beach defense.

The Short History The 4th Marine Regiment was first activated in April 1914 as part of the Marine Corps' Advances Base Force. The regiment was deployed to the Dominican Republic the following year for a peacekeeping duty that lasted ten years. The 4th Marines were reassigned to San Diego in 1924. Two years later, the regiment was assigned to mail guard duty in the western United States. In early 1927, it sailed for Shanghai. Their principal mission: to protect American lives and property. Despite periodic outbreaks of internal disorder, most of the 4th Marines' 14-year tour in China was a relatively peaceful garrison duty. In late 1941, war loomed in the Far East. On November 28, the era of the China Marines ended, as the last of the regiment set sail for the Philippines. They arrived on December 1 and were assigned to protect the naval station at Olongapo and nearby Mariveles. Seven days later, Japanese troops landed in Luzon and the 4th Marines were placed under U.S. Army control and subsequently assigned to defend the island fortress of Corregidor, which guards the entrance to Manila Bay. Over the next four months, the 4th Marines grew from a two-battalion regiment to one of five battalions, in the process becoming one of the oldest units in Marine Corps history. As defensive positions fell and units disintegrated, stragglers from the U.S. Army and Navy, as well as small Filipino units were assigned to it. Resistance on the Bataan Peninsula ended on April 9. This permitted Japanese artillery to concentrate on Corregidor. Landing craft began moving toward the island the evening of May 5. At noon the next day, Gen. Jonathan Wainwright, commander of U.S. Forces in the Philippines, surrendered. The 4th Marines burned their colors and -- temporarily -- ceased to exist.

The More Detailed History Revolutionary trouble in Mexico precipitated the activation of the 4th Regiment of Marines at Marine Barracks, Puget Sound, Washington, 16 April 1914 under the command of Colonel Joseph A. Pendleton. Three times during its first two years the 4th Regiment embarked, stood by afloat off various Mexican west coast ports prepared to land on order. In each case no landing was required, nor did the regiment engage in combat. In the spring of 1916, civil war broke out in the Dominican Republic. Fears for the safety of American and other foreign citizens in the country convinced the American government that intervention in the situation was necessary. Colonel Pendleton’s 4th Regiment departed San Diego by rail for New Orleans on 6 June where it boarded the USS Hancock. The Regiment arrived in the Dominican Republic on 21 June 1916. In the vigorous campaigning that followed immediately, the 4th Regiment won its battle honors and sustained its first battle casualties. As additional Marines were committed, it became one component of the three-regiment 2nd Provisional Brigade. The 4th Regiment was destined to spend eight years in the Dominican Republic. As in most ‘bush’ or ‘banana’ wars, Marines performed a variety of tasks from policing the hinterland to running the railroads. They also trained a native constabulary to take over their chore of maintaining order once a stable civil government could be established. This occurred in October 1922, and the 4th Regiment sailed for San Diego in the summer of 1924. Following a period of routine garrison duties and a tour guarding the U. S. mails during the robbery epidemic of 1926-27, the regiment drew the assignment which was to win it fame and the descriptive nickname, the ‘China Regiment.’ The cause for alarm in the Far East in early 1927 stemmed from the threat that the Chinese Nationalists would seize Shanghai and endanger the foreign residents there. After standing by on 24-hour alert, the 4th Regiment, under Colonel Charles S. Hill, embarked in the USS Chaumont and sailed from San Diego on 3 February 1927. With the declaration on a state of emergency on 21 March, the 4th Regiment went ashore. The regiment’s initial mission became one of reinforcing the Marines already in Shanghai in the prevention of rioting and mob violence within the American sector. A few days after the landing of the 4th Regiment, Brigadier General Smedley D. Butler arrived in Shanghai to take command of all Marine forces ashore. His command was designated as the 3d Brigade. Shanghai for the next few years was relatively peaceful and garrison duty for the 4th Regiment passed uneventfully. The 3d Brigade left China in early 1929 leaving the 4th Regiment behind. In February 1930 the regiment’s designation was officially changed to the 4th Marines. The security of Shanghai was once again threatened in early 1932 after hostilities broke out between the Chinese and the Japanese. In 1937 the fighting became so intense that the 4th Marines, now commanded by Colonel Charles F. B. Price, and other foreign troops manned the barricades of the International Settlement in Shanghai. The 1937 situation developed into a series of potentially explosive crises as both sides resorted to aerial bombing with considerable carelessness and accompanying indiscriminate antiaircraft and artillery fire. Again reinforcements were rushed in to support the 4th Marines. The 2d Brigade arrived in Shanghai in September 1937. The brigade was withdrawn early in 1938 when a shift of the scene of Sino- Japanese hostilities left Shanghai relatively safe. The 4th Marines once again remained behind. As the threat of war between Japan and the United States became greater, the 4th Marines, now commanded by Colonel Samuel L. Howard, departed Shanghai for the Philippines in November 1941. A few days after the Japanese attack on the Philippines on 8 December, the 4th Marines, under tactical command of the Army, moved to Corregidor. Marines in the regiment worked feverishly throughout the protracted siege of the island fortress on defense measures and installations. The Japanese made their assault landing during the dark hours of 5-6 May 1942. In spite of dogged resistance by the defenders, the Japanese gained a toehold on the island. At noon on 6 May 1942 the Americans on Corregidor surrendered. The men of the 4th Marines burned their colors and went into captivity. The regiment temporarily went out of existence. From: History and Museums Division Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps, Washington, D.C., 1983