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Donald Duck ... 6th Marine Division 1st Battalion 4th Marines

Artist: Hank Porter (All)

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Donald Duck ... 6th Marine Division 1st Battalion 4th Marines Comic Art

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Title:	Donald Duck ... 6th Marine Division 1st Battalion 4th Marines
Artist:	Hank Porter (All)
Media Type:	Colored Pencils
Art Type:	Commission
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	6,871
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Added to Site:	3/30/2010
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The only Marine Division that as an entire unit ,never spent one day in the Continental United States was the Sixth Marine Division.They participated in the defense of Corregidor from January to May 1942 where they were captured by enemy forces, the Japanese, on 6 May 1942, and temporarily ceased to exist. The First Battalion of the Fourth Marine Regiment was reactivated 1 February 1944 on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. They participated in the following WORLD WAR ll Campaigns: PHILLIPPINES, SOLOMON ISLANDS, BISMARK ARCHIIPELAGO, GUAM, OKINAWA. They were awarded the Navy Unit Citation for actions on Guam and the Presidential Unit Citation for heroism on the Island of Okinawa. While on Okinawa the Sixth Marine Division had nearly 1700 Marines and Navy Medical Corpsmen who were killed in action or died of wounds, with more than 7400 being wounded in action. The Disney Studio insigne was proudly designed in the Summer of 1945.

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