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In overtime, Tucker County gets the victory at Clay Battelle.

The Mountain Lions beating the Seabees 22-14.

Bath County shuts out Tigers Valley 20-0.

Connaughton Valley has just beaten Madonna 48-12.

And you said any scorer would tie it or take the lead.

and somehow we ended up with the tie because you forced them to punt in towards their own end zone, and the former quarterback turned fullback and linebacker, Corey Cohen, blocks a punt, goes out of the end zone, and we're tied at 14.

Clay Battelle tried to make it a seven-on-seven battle, and that was probably the ultimate downfall of the Clay Battelle Seabees because when it got forced into overtime...

the field condensed.

The surviving pilots and members of the 5th Pioneer Battalion improvised a skirmish line and launched a counterattack of their own.

Seabees and elements of the redeploying 28th Marines joined the fray.

There were few suicides among the Japanese.

Most died in place, grateful to strike one final blow for the Emperor.

The system's short range, modest fuel supply, and awkward aiming process hardly offset the loss of the machine gun.

Even so, each of the three tank battalions employed E4-5 equipped Shermans during Iwo Jima.

The best solution to marrying effective flame projection with mechanized mobility resulted from an unlikely inter-service task force of Seabees, Army Chemical Warfare Service technicians, and Fleet Marine Force tankers in Hawaii before the invasion.

According to Lt. Col. William R. Collins, commanding the 5th Tank Battalion, this inspired group of field expedient tinkers modified the Mark I flamethrower to operate from within the Sherman's turret, replacing the 75mm main gun with a look-alike launch tube.

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The artillery regiment was the 10th Marines.

And the Engineers, Pioneers, and Naval Construction Battalion, Seabees, were consolidated into the 18th Marines.

These were the principal commanders as the division began its intensified training program leading to Operation Galvanic.

Commanding Officer, 2nd Marines, Colonel William M. Marshall Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion, 2nd Marines, Major Wood B. Kyle.

Very few landing craft were available.

Many were crammed with miscellaneous supplies as the transports and cargo ships continued general unloading, regardless of the needs of the troops ashore.

On Bay Show, Navy Seabees were already at work repairing the airstrip with bulldozers and graders despite enemy fire.

From time to time, the Marines would call for help in sealing a bothersome bunker, and a bulldozer would arrive to do the job nicely.

Early on the afternoon of the next day, 2 February, D plus 2, the 24th Marines finished its conquest of Namur and the island was declared secured.

in the final moments of combat however lieutenant-colonel akela j dais commander of the first battalion was standing to direct the last attack of his men a burst of machine-gun fire riddled his body and he became the most senior officer to die in the battle for his superb leadership under fire he was awarded a posthumous medal of honor across the sand spit on roye it had been a different story this island was nearly bare for it was mostly covered by airfield runways when the twenty third marines hit the beaches on d plus one the fierceness of the pre landing bombardment prevented the japanese defenders from mounting a coordinated defense small groups of marine riflemen joined their regiments attached tanks in a race across to the far side of the island this charging style caused considerable confusion as to who was where reorganized into more coherent units the men made a final orderly drive to finish the job in spite of the rapid progress on roy there were still some major enemy strong points which had to be dealt with an after-action report of the second battalion described one example of this perilous work in matter-of-fact terms there was a blockhouse constructed of reinforced concrete approximately three feet thick it had three gun ports one each facing north east and west another indication of the enemy's mistaken assumption that the americans would attack from the sea rather than the lagoon shore two heavy hits had been made on the blockhouse one apparently by fourteen inch or sixteen inch shells and the other by an aerial bomb nevertheless the position had not been demolished the battalion commander lieutenant-colonel edward j dillon then ordered company g to take the blockhouse the company commander first sent forward a seventy five millimeter half track which fired five rounds against the steel door at this point a demolition squad came up and its commander volunteered to knock out the position with explosives while the half-track continued to fire infantry platoons moved up on each flank of the installation the demolition squad placed charges at the ports and pushed bangalore torpedoes through a shell hole in the roof cease-fire was then ordered and after hand grenades were thrown inside the door half a squad of infantry went in to investigate unfortunately the engineers of the demolition squad had not got the word to cease fire and had placed a shape charge at one of the ports while the infantry was still inside luckily no one was hurt but as the company commander reported a very undignified and hurried exit was made by all concerned inside were three heavy machine guns a quantity of ammunition and the bodies of three japanese many japanese had to be flushed out or blown up in the airfield's drainage ditches and culverts but by eighteen hundred that day d plus one roy had been secured secured seemed a somewhat flexible term when the first service of mass held the next day was interrupted by japanese shots by six february however the ground elements of a marine aircraft wing were ensconced at the airfield preparing for the arrival of their planes in five more days for the entire remainder of the war these planes pounded the by-passed atolls with such power that the japanese on them were eliminated from any further role in the war there was one surprise japanese air raid on roi staged from the mariana islands on twelve february this caused a number of casualties and major damage to material The repair of the airfield and its quick return to action was a tribute to the skills of both the 20th Marines, an engineer regiment, and the 109th Naval Construction Battalion, Seabees.

This achievement was one more illustration of the vital role played by a dizzying list of units that supported the assault rifle battalions.

Besides the vast armada of naval planes, ships, and landing craft, there were Navy chaplains and corpsmen, two specialties which are always Navy.