OtherUS Marine Base Camp Lejuene

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HISTORICAL NOTE
        Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune is a 246-square-mile United States military training facility in Jacksonville, NC. Its 14 miles of beaches make the base a major area for amphibious assault training, and its location between two deep-water ports (Wilmington and Morehead City) allows for fast deployments. The main base is supplemented by six satellite facilities: Marine Corps Air Station New River, Camp Geiger, Stone Bay, Courthouse Bay, Camp Johnson, and the Greater Sandy Run Training Area.
        In April 1941, construction was approved on an 11,000-acre tract in Onslow County, NC. On May 1 of that year, Lt. Col. William P. T. Hill began construction on Marine Barracks New River. The first base headquarters was in a summer cottage on Montford Point and then moved to Hadnot Point in 1942. Later that year (December 1942) it was renamed in honor of the 13th Commandant of the Marine Corps, Lieutenant General John A. Lejeune.
        One of the satellite facilities of Camp Lejeune served for a while as a boot camp for Female Marines, and also Montford Point, which was used between 1942 and 1949 for the training of 20,000 African-Americans. After the military was ordered to fully integrate (1948), Montford Point was renamed Camp Gilbert H. Johnson and became the home of the Marine Corps Combat Service Support Schools.
        Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune, and during WWII, the US Coast Guard Detachment (December 1941 to June 1946) are the other service branches that have a permanent home aboard MCB Camp Lejuene. On 28 November 1998, the Coast Guard’s Port Security Unit Training Detachment (PSU TRADET) was reactivated aboard the base.

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MARINE BARRACKS NEW RIVER, JACKSONVILLE, NC

1 May 1941 to December 1942.
 

			1941-08-07 Locy Type 3 (BBT) "NEW RIVER / N.C." "1st. Mar 1st. Mar.Div. / Fleet Mar. Force"
			Collectors request

1st Marine Battalion, 1st Marine Division (1/1). Reactivated 7 February 1941, at New River, NC. They deployed to Wellington, New Zealand in July 1942. From the Greg Ciesielski collection.

 

N/A			1941-06-02 Locy Type 6de-1 "Marine Barracks / New River, N.C."
			Collectors request

From the Greg Ciesielski collection.

 

N/A			1943-09-20 Locy Type 7 "NEW RIVER, N.C. / MARINE BARRACKS"
			Marines mail

From the Greg Ciesielski collection.

 

			1943-04-03 Locy Type 7dit(1) "First Marine Division" Fleet Marine Force
			Marines mail

From the Greg Ciesielski collection.

 

			1943-09-11 Locy Type 9 "New Bern, N.C. Mar. Brks., New River Br. / Unit 1"
			Registered Marines mail

From the Greg Ciesielski collection.

 

N/A			1943-03-29 Locy Type 9 "New Bern, N.C. / Rifle Range Mar. Barracks Br."
			Collectors request

Cachet by Walter G. Crosby. From the Greg Ciesielski collection.

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MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJUENE, JACKSONVILLE, NC

December 1942 to Present Day - Named after 13th Commandant of the Marine Corps, Lieutenant General John A. Lejeune.
 

N/A		N/A	1942
			Camp Lejuene's Crest

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Courthouse Bay, MCB Camp Lejeune, NC. In 2020, Courthouse Bay is the home of Marine Corps Engineer School, 2d Assault Amphibian Battalion, 2d Combat Engineer Battalion, 2d Reconnaissance Battalion, 2d Marine Raider Battalion, and the United States Coast Guard Special Missions Training Center.
 

N/A			1943-02-20 Locy Type 3z(BTB)
			Collectors request

Cachet by Walter G. Crosby. Barrage Balloon Group Training Center, Courthouse Bay, MCB Camp Lejuene. Sept 1942 to 15 December 1943. From the Greg Ciesielski collection.

 

N/A			1943-02-20 Locy Type 9 "New Bern. N.C. / Barrage Balloon Group Br."
			Collectors request

Cachet by Walter G. Crosby. From the Greg Ciesielski collection.

 

N/A			1944-03-10 Locy Type 2z
			Coastie mail

The US Coast Guard Detachment, Courthouse Bay, MCB Camp Lejuene. From the Greg Ciesielski collection.

 

N/A			1945-05-01 Locy Type 2 "Camp Lejeune, N.C. / Courthouse Bay Br."
			Marine mail

In August 1942, the newly organized Training Center, FMF, Marine Barracks, New River, NC was activated. From the Greg Ciesielski collection.

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Rifle Range
 

N/A			1945-02-21 Locy Type 2 "Camp Lejuene, N.C. / Rifle Range Br."
			Marines mail

From the Greg Ciesielski collection.

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Branch #12868 July 1946 to (unknown)
 

N/A			1950-03-20 Locy Type 2z# "U.S. Navy, / 12868 Br."
			Collectors request

From the Greg Ciesielski collection.

 

N/A			1951-02-28 Locy Type 7z# "U.S. Navy, / 12868 Br."
			Marines mail

From the Greg Ciesielski collection.

 

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