Hathaway, Amos, CAPT

Deceased
 
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Last Rank
Captain
Last Primary NEC
111X-Unrestricted Line Officer - Surface Warfare
Last Rating/NEC Group
Line Officer
Primary Unit
1960-1962, Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS)
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Captain

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Home State
Colorado
Colorado
 Year of Birth
1913
 
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Home Town
Not Specified		 Last Address
Pueblo
Date of Passing
Aug 26, 1996		  
Location of Interment
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Joint Chiefs of Staff


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Last Known Activity
Mathematics professor at the Citadel, South Carolina, 1966 to 1979.
   
Other Comments:
"We need a bugler to sound the charge." Words uttered to XO when Cdr. Hathaway saw a large Japanese fleet steaming toward his destroy and Task Force 3, Battle off Samar, Leyte Gulf, 1944. Capt. Hathaway was awarded the Navy Cross for his daring attack against overwhelming odds.
   
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Guadalcanal Campaign (1942-42)/Guadalcanal-Tulagi landings
Start Year
1942		 End Year
1942

Description
The Battle of Tulagi and Gavutu–Tanambogo was a land battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II, between the forces of the Imperial Japanese Navy and Allied (mainly United States (U.S.) Marine) ground forces. It took place from 7–9 August 1942 on the Solomon Islands, during the initial Allied landings in the Guadalcanal campaign.

In the battle, U.S. Marines, under the overall command of U.S. Major General Alexander Vandegrift, successfully landed and captured the islands of Tulagi, Gavutu, and Tanambogo among which the Japanese Navy had constructed a naval and seaplane base. The landings were fiercely resisted by the Japanese Navy troops who, outnumbered and outgunned by the Allied forces, fought and died almost to the last man.

At the same time that the landings on Tulagi and Gavutu–Tanambogo were taking place, Allied troops were also landing on nearby Guadalcanal, with the objective of capturing an airfield under construction by Japanese forces. In contrast to the intense fighting on Tulagi and Gavutu, the landings on Guadalcanal were essentially unopposed. The landings on both Tulagi and Guadalcanal initiated the six-month long Guadalcanal campaign and a series of combined-arms battles between Allied and Japanese forces in the Solomon Islands area.
   
My Participation in This Battle or Operation
From Year
1942		 To Year
1942
 
Last Updated:
Nov 18, 2008
   
Personal Memories
   
My Photos From This Battle or Operation
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  • Brosnan, Ryan
  • Burlingame, Archie, S1c, (1923-1943)
  • Earnest, Albert, CAPT, (1941-1972)
  • Froze, Francis Donald, Cox, (1941-1945)
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