 The Legation Marines were taken prisoner and the crates with the fossils disappeared into the chaos of the war.The question of what happened to the crates of fossils is one of the frequent and unanswerable questions posed to the Marine Corps historians.The 4th Marines absorbed the Marine Barracks Olongapo on 22 December 1941 to fill out the 1st and 2nd Battalions to three rifle companies of three platoons each, then added the 1st Special Defense Battalion  at Cavite to create the 3rd Battalion.