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Would the US have lost the Pacific War in World War 2 if America did not have the Marines?
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Marines would maybe say yes. There were 760,000 men who served in the Marine Corps during WWII. The Marines ultimately put six divisions, all infantry, into combat. There were over eight million men in the US Army, and the Army had ninety-one divisions, including sixty-five infantry, sixteen armored, six airborne, two cavalry and one mountain division. Additionally the army had thousands of non-divisional "independent" combat battalions, such as tank, tank destroyer, artillery of various calibers, and engineer battalions. All six Marine Divisions served in the Pacific, but so did fifteen or so Army divisions, plus three entire US Army Air Forces. There were three US Army field armies in the Pacific. All this while the US Army was defeating Germany, Italy and the minor Axis partners with no assistance from the Marine Corps. This is not to belittle the hard service of the Marines, but you do the math.
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