After Japan's surrender, the 1st and 6th Marine Divisions, also known as China Marines, were sent to occupy northern China from 1945 to 1948.

This site is my attempt to document the Marine Corps experience in China through the use of original photos, period publications, artifacts, and words, as written by the men themselves.

A little-known chapter of U.S. military history is the story of the China Marines, who were stationed in Shanghai throughout the latter half of the 1920s stretching right up to 1941.

Jun 12, 2006 · From 1937 to 1941, as relations between the United States and Japan steadily deteriorated, the ‘China Marines’ became the subject of heated debate between the State …

The Marines never engaged in combat during all those years, yet they successfully carried out their mission, though next door to the Chinese revolution and the pitched battles of the Sino-Japanese war."

Their mission was simple: keep American residents safe as Chiang Kai-shek’s Northern Expedition and, later, Japan’s war on China raged beyond the foreign quarter’s walls.

Mar 10, 2025 · An infantry battalion known as the “China Marines,” has been reborn as a littoral combat team as part of the Marine Corps’ force structure changes that focus on China and the Pacific.