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Command Chronology, Aug 1966 |
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Thursday, 21 January 2010 06:28 |
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 A look back into history. SuicideCharley.Com was able to find a couple Declassified reports from the National Archives of 1st Battalion, 7th Marines Command Chronologies. These documents are a complete situation report of what the battalion was doing operational wise and what problems they were facing administratively and logistically. This document dated 2 Sept 1966 is attached at the bottom this article.
b. Operations
(1) The Battalion had 144 contacts with the VC 15 of those being probes of the defensive positions. As a result of these contacts 25 VC were killed, 20 VC were wounded and 73 VC/VCS were captured. The Battalion sustained 5 WIA's and 1 KIA during this month.
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On 24 October 1942, the 1st Marine Division was occupying a defensive position around Henderson Field on Guadalcanal. The 1st Battalion 7th Marines, commanded by LtCol Lewis B “Chesty” Puller helped form this line.
U.S. Marines from 1st Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment Charlie Company and Iraqi soldiers inspect the wreckage left from a suicide truck bomber against one of the Marines’ forward operating bases along the Iraqi-Syrian border, July 13, 2006. All that remains of the incident is a burnt chassis. The car bomb was described by Lt. Col. Nicholas F. Marano, the battalion’s commanding officer, as possibly the largest IED attack against Marines deployed near the border.
