United States Marine Corps Amphibious Reconnaissance Battalion information
US military unit
FMF Amphibious Reconnaissance Battalion
Shoulder sleeve insignia for FMF-PAC Signal troops which was utilized by early reconnaissance units.
Active
January 7, 1943 – June 19, 1957
Country
United States
Branch
United States Marine Corps
Type
Special operations forces
Role
Amphibious reconnaissance
Size
Battalion
Part of
Amphibious Corps, Pacific Fleet (ACPF) (January 1943–August 1943) V Amphibious Corps (August 1943–April 1944) Fleet Marine Force(April 1944 – 19 June 1957)
Nickname(s)
"Jones's Group" (World War II-era)
Patron
James L. Jones Sr. Observer Group
Motto(s)
Celer, Silens, Mortalis ("Swift, Silent, Deadly")
Colors
Marine Corps Colors
Engagements
World War II
Military unit
The United States Marine Corps's Amphibious Reconnaissance Battalion, formerly Company, was a Marine Corps special operations forces of United States Marine and Hospital corpsman that performed clandestine operation preliminary pre–D-Day amphibious reconnaissance of planned beachheads and their littoral area within uncharted enemy territory for the joint-Navy/Marine force commanders of the Pacific Fleet during World War II. Often accompanied by Navy Underwater Demolition Teams and the early division recon companies, these amphibious recon platoons performed more reconnaissance missions (over 150) than any other single recon unit during the Pacific campaigns.[1]
They are amongst the patriarch lineage of the Force Reconnaissance companies which still continue providing force-level reconnaissance for the latter Fleet Marine Force. Their countless efforts have contributed to the success of the joint-Marines/Army maritime landing forces assigned under the Navy fleet commanders during the island-hopping campaigns of the numerous atolls in the Pacific.
Their trademark of amphibious warfare techniques utilized insertion methods under the cover of darkness by rubber boats, patrol torpedo boats, Catalina flying boats, converted high speed destroyer transport ships, or APDs, and submarines for troop transports.[2] These Marines applied skills in topographic and hydrographic surveys by charting and measuring water depths, submerged coral heads, and terrain inland; taking photographs and soil samples for permeability for amphibious tractors and landing craft parties.
Their assignments included scouting or reconnoitering a planned, or potential landing site, and military intelligence gathering missions. These teams also evaluated the beaches looking for exits off the hostile beaches inland, for contingency measures if the Marine landing force were to necessitate a retreat. Most importantly, they compromised the locations of enemy forces, their strengths and weakness, and other importance in the follow-up of an amphibious assault.
^Bruce F. Meyers, Swift, Silent, and Deadly: Marine Amphibious Reconnaissance in the Pacific, 1942–1945, (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2004).
^Chief of Naval Operations, Dictionary of American Fighting Ships, Vols 1–7 (Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1968).
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