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The 2d Tank Battalion on the move. The only Manne Corps unit equipped with poweful
MiAl tanks, the bauallonfrnctioned as the division reserve during the assault.

division command post or the control element in the assembly areas. The
group's original position was right at the entrance to the breach of lane Blue 3.
By moving about two kilometers, good communication was restored, and the
orderly control of the division's movement could be continued. At 1600, the
Tiger Brigade was called out of its assembly areas and moved along all six lanes
in two waves. As the sun set on 6-Day, Tiger Brigade cleared the breach. The
3d Battalion, 10th Marines, left its firing positions and followed closely behind.
    Darkness brought a halt to the division's movement through the breach, but
by then the division had   achieved  General Keys'   intent for this day by
establishing the preponderance of its combat power on the far side. The units
that successfully passed through were the 6th Marines, with its three battalions
plus  the  1st Battalion, 8th  Marines;  the 2d     Tank Battalion;  the 2d
Reconnaissance Battalion; the 2d LAl Battalion; and the Tiger Brigade. The
majority of the division's artillery was also forward; the 2d Battalion, 10th
Marines, had gone through with the 6th Marines.      On the receipt of that
battalion's report of its capability to fire, the 2d Battalion, 12th Marines, was
called forward at 1430. The 1st Battalion of the 3d Field Artillery had gone
through with the Tiger Brigade, and the 3d Battalion, 10th Marines, had come
in behind them.167 This successful conduct of the breach and the rapid movement


                                                         Omcial USMC photograph
Elemerns of the 6th Marines pass along one of the   `red,, lanes cleared through
minefletos, 24 February 1991.