V Amphibious Corps

History

Structure

• The first major element of the Corps was three reinforced Marine infantry divisions.
• The second was the Corps artillery, which was composed of a field artillery group made of three battalions of 155mm howitzers, three battalions of 155mm guns, and an Antiaircraft Artillery Group made of three antiaircraft artillery battalions.
• The third was the Amphibian Tractor Group, which was made up of four amphibian tractor battalions and an armored amphibian tractor battalion.
• The fourth was the Corps Troops, which was composed of a headquarters and service battalion, administrative command, signal battalion, medical battalion, motor transport battalion, engineer battalion, reconnaissance battalion, and military police battalion.

  Subordinate units

• 2nd Marine Division
• 3rd Marine Division
• 4th Marine Division
• 5th Marine Division
• 22nd Marine Regiment
• Amphibious Reconnaissance Battalion

• XXIV Corps Artillery
• 7th Infantry Division
• 27th Infantry Division
• 32nd Infantry Division

  Command and Staff

Corps Commanders

• General Holland M. Smith: 25 August 1943 – 11 July 1944
• General Harry Schmidt: 12 July 1944 – 15 February 1946

  Chiefs of Staff

• Brigadier General Graves B. Erskine: August 1943 - August 1944
• Brigadier General William W. Rogers: August 1944 - December 1945
• Brigadier General Dudley S. Brown: December 1945 - February 1946

  Corps Artillery

• Brigadier general Thomas E. Bourke
• Colonel John S. Letcher

  Personnel Officers

• Lieutenant Colonel Albert F. Metze
• Colonel David A. Stafford

  Intelligence Officers

• Lieutenant Colonel St. Julien R. Marshall: August 1943 - October 1944
• Colonel Thomas R. Yancey

  Operations Officers

• Colonel John C. McQueen
• Colonel Edward A. Craig
• Colonel Walter W. Wensinger

  Logistics Officers

• Colonel Raymond E. Knapp
• Colonel William F. Brown

  Unit awards

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