Berry, Vernon, MM2c

Fallen

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Service Details

Last Rank
Petty Officer Second Class

Last Primary NEC
MM-0000-Machinist's Mate

Last Rating/NEC Group
Machinists Mate

Primary Unit
1942-1943, USS Helena (CL-50)

Service Years
1941 - 1943

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Order of the Golden Dragon

Neptune Subpoena

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Personal Details

Home State

Missouri

Year of Birth
Not Specified

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Casualty Info

Home Town ST. Louis	Last Address Not Specified

Casualty Date Jul 06, 1943
Cause Hostile, Died while Missing	Reason Other Explosive Device
Location Solomon Islands	Conflict World War II/Asiatic-Pacific Theater/Northern Solomon Islands Campaign (1943-44)/Battle of Kula Gulf
Location of Interment Not Specified	Wall/Plot Coordinates Not Specified

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1942-1943, USS Helen...

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.

My Participation in This Battle or Operation
From Month/Year January / 1943	To Month/Year December / 1943

Last Updated: Mar 16, 2020

Personal Memories
Memories Helena found a measure of revenge when she was assigned to the several bombardments of Japanese positions on New Georgia during January 1943. Her guns rocked the enemy at Munda and Vila Stanmore, leveling vital supply concentrations and gun emplacements. Continuing on patrol and escort in support of the bitter Guadalcanal operation through February, one of her float planes shared in the sinking of Japanese submarine RO-102 11 February 1943.