Battle of Tinian order of battle
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United States
All units and personnel are USMC unless otherwise noted.
Expeditionary Troops (Lieutenant General Holland M. Smith)
Chief of Staff: Brigadier General Graves B. Erskine
V Amphibious Corps (Harry Schmidt)
Chief of Staff: Brigadier General Graves B. Erskine
V Amphibious Corps Headquarters and Service Battalion (Major Thomas R. Wert)
V Amphibious Corps Amphibious Reconnaissance Battalion (Captain James L. Jones)
V Amphibious Corps Medical Battalion (Lieutenant Commander William B. Clapp (USN))
V Amphibious Corps Signal Battalion (Colonel James H. N. Hudnall)
V Amphibious Corps Motor Transport Company
V Amphibious Corps Provisional Engineer Group
18th Naval Construction Battalion (USN)
121st Naval Construction Battalion (USN)
34th Engineer Combat battalion (USA)
2nd Armored Amphibian Battalion (Lieutenant Colonel Reed M. Fawell Jr.)
4th 105mm Howitzer Battalion (Lieutenant Colonel Douglas E. Reeve)
17th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion
7th Field Depot (Colonel Earle H. Phillips)
3rd Ammunition Company
18th Depot Company
19th Depot Company
20th Depot Company
31st Field Hospital (USA)
96th Provisional Portable Surgical Hospital (USA)
97th Provisional Portable Surgical Hospital (USA)
98th Provisional Portable Surgical Hospital (USA)
Air Warning Squadron 5
Detachment, 680th Air Warning Company (USA)
Detachment, 726th Air Warning Company (USA)
Detachment, 763th Air Warning Company (USA)
Detachment, Mobile Communications Unit No.
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