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1st Marine Brigade

1st Provisional Marine Brigade, a United States Marine Corps ad hoc infantry brigade active in World War II and the Korean War



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1st Battalion 6th Marines

1/6 deployed during May to July 1941 to Reykjavík in Iceland and was re-assigned to the 1st Provisional Marine Brigade.

2nd Battalion 6th Marines

From May to July 1941 2/6 reassigned to the 1st Provisional Marine Brigade and deployed to garrison Reykjavík, Iceland against possible German invasion.