** 240 Marine Division

** M240 Marine Division-Mountain Provinces

** Marine ecozones or realms ( 13 )

** Royal Thai Marine Corps ( นาว ิ กโยธ ิ นไทย )

** The Women Marines are disbanded, and the women are integrated into regular Marine Corps.

** Wesley L. Fox, U. S. Marine Corps officer

** Hermann Göring is captured by the United States Army. Marines of 1st Marine Division Battle of Okinawa | fighting on Okinawa, May 1945.

** Charles C. Krulak, U. S. Marine Corps commander

** Marine Corps Women's Reserve ( MCWR ) created.

** Marine Le Pen, French politician

** Michael Strank, U. S. Marine flag raiser on Iwo Jima ( d. 1945 )

** A Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey crashes in the Potomac River as it approached Marine Corps Base Quantico, killing all seven people on board.

** Henry Louis Larsen, American Marine Corp General ; Governor of American Samoa and Governor of Guam ( d. 1890 )

** A midair collision between Hughes Airwest Flight 706 Douglas DC-9 jetliner and a U. S. Marine Corps McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom jet fighter near Duarte, California, claims 50 lives.

** Vietnam War: In a follow-up to August's Operation Starlite, United States Marines and South Vietnamese forces initiate Operation Piranha on the Batangan Peninsula, south of the Chu Lai Marine base.

** Rene Gagnon, U. S. Marine flag raiser on Iwo Jima ( b. 1925 )

** In Lebanon, Hezbollah announces that it has hanged United States Marines U. S. Marine Lt. Col. William R. Higgins in retaliation for Israel's July 28 kidnapping of Hezbollah leader Abdel Karim Obeid.

** Joseph P. Hoar, U. S. Marine commander

** U. S. Merchant Marine ( no central administration ).

** Royal Thai Marine Corps 50 Units

** Fowler Point Site is a campsite of Shuswap Lake Marine Provincial Park, near Mount Fowler, � British Columbiaa

** Marine Corps Air Station Yuma

** Universiti Teknologi Mara-LL. M in Legal Aspects of Marine Affairs

** Plymouth University-LLM Maritime and Marine Law, LLM Maritime and Marine Law and Practice

** United Nations Information and Communication Technologies Task Force

** Task Force 70

** Task Force 72 Formosa Patrol 12 September 1950

** Task Force 77

** Task Force 79 Service Squadron 3 21 July 1950

** Task hazards not dealt with properly

** A Russian brigade, initially under the command of Colonel Aleksandr Ivanovich Lentsov, was part of the Task Force Eagle effort.

** Mentoring Task Force 2 ( MTF-2 )

** Special Operations Task Group

** Corporate America, Technology, Communications and the Arts Task Force ( Chairman )

** Antitrust Task Force and Competition Policy

** Task Group 57. 1-Lockheed EP-3, VQ-1

** Task Group 57. 2-in October 2006, consisted of VP-8, VP-9, VP-16, and VP-46.

** Task Force on Judicial Impeachment

** Task Force Couch ( Deactivated in 2007 )

** The 12 aircraft carriers of Task Force 58 — the Fast Carrier Forces, United States Pacific Fleet — begin operations to destroy Japanese airpower in the Marshall Islands prior to the American invasion of the islands ; it is the first time that the American Fast Carrier Forces are used in this way.

** Task Force 58 aircraft attack a Japanese convoy off Kwajalein Atoll and bomb Kwajalein Island, Roi-Namur, Maloelap, and Wotje.

** U. S. Navy Task Force 58 completes its support of ground operations on Kwajalein Island and Roi-Namur.

** Carrier aircraft of U. S. Navy Task Force 58 strike Eniwetok.

** Supporting American operations in the Marshall Islands, carrier aircraft of U. S. Navy Task Force 58 since January 29 have flown 6, 232 sorties and dropped 1, 156. 6 tons ( 1, 049, 261 kg ) of bombs, losing 22 aircraft in combat and 27 to other causes.

** In Operation Hailstone, carrier aircraft of U. S. Navy Task Force 58 begin two days of strikes against Truk Atoll, Japans main base in the South Pacific Ocean ; they are the first carrier strikes against Truk.

** Task Force 58 aircraft complete their two days of strikes against Truk, starting in the early morning hours with the first carrier-based night bombing attack in U. S. Navy history, a raid by 12 TBF-1C Avengers, which demonstrates the value of such raids by scoring 13 direct bomb hits and seven near misses on Japanese ships in the harbor.

** Task Force 38 carrier aircraft attack Japanese forces and facilities on Luzon, claiming 14 Japanese aircraft destroyed in the air and 18 on the ground in exchange for the loss of 17 U. S. aircraft, but bad weather prevents them from employing the " Big Blue Blanket " tactic of maintaining continuous coverage over Japanese airfields to prevent Japanese aircraft from attacking the U. S. invasion force in Lingayen Gulf.

** Task Force 38 carrier aircraft strike Japanese targets at Formosa and Miyako-jima in foul weather, flying 717 sorties and dropping 212 tons ( 192, 325 kg ) of bombs.