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26 March 1943: Battle of Komandorski Island, Aleutians.

26 March 1944: WW II, Marines of 1stProMarBrig landed on Kili island and Namorik Atoll, Marshall Islands.

26 March 2002: In support of the coalition effort in Afghanistan. Marine helicopters completed more than 400 combat sorties in Operation Anaconda.

27 March 1948: Key West Agreement gives the Marine Corps the Primary Amphibious Warfare role.

27 March 1953: The 5th Marines, supported by the 2d Battalion, 7th Marines, in the first full day of fighting after the Chinese assault the previous evening of Outpost Vegas on Korea's western front, counterattacked to regain enemy-held positions. Companies E and F of 2/7, down to only three platoons between them, managed to regain partial control of Outpost Vegas that day.

28 March 1870: 129 Marines seized and destroyed illicit distilleries in "Irishtown" (Brooklyn), New York.

28 March 1918: Marines were placed under the command of French Marshall Foch in WWI.

28 March 1953: The 1STMARDIV defeated the Chinese in the battle of "Vegas" Hill in Korea.

29 March 1917: Marines garrisoned St. Croix to deny harbor to German submarines.

30 March 1966: The 7th Marine Regiment terminated Operation Indiana in Vietnam.

31 March 1801: On this date, LtCol Commandant William W. Burrows rode with president Thomas Jefferson to look for "a proper place to fix the Marine Barracks on."
President Jefferson was a personal friend of the Commandant, and deeply interested in the welfare of the Corps and accompanied Burrows on horseback on the morning of 31 March.
They chose a square in Southeast Washington, bounded by 8th and 9th streets, and 8th & I streets, because it lay near the Navy Yard and was within easy marching distance of the Capitol.