The exploits of the 2/6 were immortalized in the WWII classic novel, "Battle Cry", by Leon Uris.
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From May to July 1941 2/6 reassigned to the 1st Provisional Marine Brigade and deployed to garrison Reykjavík, Iceland against possible German invasion.
Following his graduation from the Armed Forces Staff College in 1968, he commanded the 2nd Battalion, 6th Marines at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.
In April 1917, shortly after the United States entered World War I, Sellers joined the United States Marine Corps and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the 78th Company, 2nd Battalion 6th Marines.
In 1995, he joined the 6th Marine Regiment as the executive officer, then went on to command 2nd Battalion 6th Marines from 1996 until 1998.
As a Lieutenant Colonel on Saipan during World War II, General Murray was awarded his first Navy Cross for extraordinary heroism under fire, June 15, 1944, while commanding the 2nd Battalion 6th Marines, 2nd Marine Division.
Staff Sergeant Kennemore joined the 2nd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, at Camp Lejeune, in October 1949, and with the outbreak of the Korean fighting, moved with the battalion to the west coast in July 1950.
Royal Marines | Battalion | Marines | 6th United States Congress | battalion | Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester | Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond | Captain (British Army and Royal Marines) | South Carolina's 6th congressional district | Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex | Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster | Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer | 2nd United States Congress | Michigan's 6th congressional district | Michigan's 2nd congressional district | 2nd | William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne | William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne | Minnesota's 6th congressional district | Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland | George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham | 1st Battalion 8th Marines | David Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter | Charles Cochrane-Baillie, 2nd Baron Lamington | 1st Battalion 9th Marines | Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild | Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent | Frederick Ponsonby, 6th Earl of Bessborough | Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey | Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke |