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Date of Passing Jun 13, 1991
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Alton was working for an oil company in Cuba when WW2 broke out. He returned to the states and enlisted in the Navy. After serving 5 years he returned to civilian life and went to work for the Texas Oil Company out of Houston. He worked for them until his retirement.
He had no children of his own and his first wife passed away before I knew him.
He remarried a woman who already had grown kids in the winter of is life.
Though I did not know him all that well when I was around him it was very interesting to speak with him. Had some great stories. I do know that he is missed by my wife (his neice) and her brother.
World War II/Asiatic-Pacific Theater
From Month/Year
December / 1941
To Month/Year
September / 1945
Description The plan of the Pacific subseries was determined by the geography, strategy, and the military organization of a theater largely oceanic. Two independent, coordinate commands, one in the Southwest Pacific under General of the Army Douglas MacArthur and the other in the Central, South, and North Pacific (Pacific Ocean Areas) under Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, were created early in the war. Except in the South and Southwest Pacific, each conducted its own operations with its own ground, air, and naval forces in widely separated areas. These operations required at first only a relatively small number of troops whose efforts often yielded strategic gains which cannot be measured by the size of the forces involved. Indeed, the nature of the objectivesùsmall islands, coral atolls, and jungle-bound harbors and airstrips, made the employment of large ground forces impossible and highlighted the importance of air and naval operations. Thus, until 1945, the war in the Pacific progressed by a double series of amphibious operations each of which fitted into a strategic pattern developed in Washington.
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