USMC at Normandy?

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Most likely any marines that were present during landings in the ETO were the regular ship board garrisioned marines that were stationed on the navy ships that were there. They may have assisted in some way but their main duty was shipboard, Ray

In the old Marine Corps museum at Quantico (next door to Little Hall) there was a Nazi battle flag that was captured by the ship's Marine detachment from (I think) the USS North Carolina. The ship's MarDet staged an amphibious landing on the island fort in the harbor at Marseilles, capturing the fort immediately prior to the invasion of Southern France by Gen. Patch's 7th Army.

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[RayP.]

When I was maint. supervisor at last job I had,made friends with a fellow gun collector who was a Field Eng. rep. from Mono Group. LTD. for Moyno Pump Co.,one day one of the companys engineers showed up at work with a new car,when my friend pulled in lot,he wondered who car belongs to,license plate carried Purple Heart,P.O.W.,USMC and Europe WWll on it,my friend is ex WWll Marine,he figured some "wanna be's car who didn't know where Marines fought",when he got in office he asked who had new car,guy who spoke up was fellow worker/friend of his,held his tongue cause guy was retiring in few months,guy offered friend some eng. manuals,when friend went to pick them up he also gave him a box USMC magazines,couple weeks later friend was thumbing thru mags and found article with pic of reunion group of people who were dropped behind enemy lines for espionage,sabotage and tracking German supply/troop movements,people in group were from all service branches,few civies also,they were picked because they had special skill required,and there was a picture of his co-worker,Sgt.USMC,spent several mths. behind enemy lines,then he was captured,14 mths. German POW camp,there was a movie loosely based on this group titled "13 Rue Madelane",starring James Cagney,friend made copy of article/picture for me,I'd like to post it if I can find it,got awful lot of stuff packed away and didn't mark the boxes.

RayP.