Hamilton, John Franklin, CPO

Fallen

Service Photo

Service Details

Last Rank
Chief Petty Officer

Last Primary NEC
SD-0000-Steward

Last Rating/NEC Group
Steward

Primary Unit
1945-1945, SD-0000, Commander in Chief Pacific Fleet (CINCPACFLT)/Commander Pacific Fleet (COMPACFLT)

Service Years
1930 - 1945

Official/Unofficial US Navy Certificates

Panama Canal

Plank Owner

Last Photo

Personal Details

Home State

Arkansas

Year of Birth
1912

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Casualty Info

Home Town Pine Bluff	Last Address Pine Bluff

Casualty Date Apr 11, 1945
Cause Hostile, Died	Reason Other Explosive Device
Location Okinawa	Conflict World War II/Asiatic-Pacific Theater/Okinawa Gunto Operation
Location of Interment Not Specified	Wall/Plot Coordinates Not Specified

Official Badges

Unofficial Badges

Military Association Memberships

Military Order of Foreign Wars of the United States

National Chief Petty Officers Association

National Association of Destroyer Veterans (Tin Can Sailors)


	1941, Military Order of Foreign Wars of the United States - Assoc. Page
	1942, National Chief Petty Officers Association [Verified]
	1943, National Association of Destroyer Veterans (Tin Can Sailors) [Verified] - Assoc. Page
	1945, Military Order of the World Wars (MOWW)

World War II/Asiatic-Pacific Theater/Treasury-Bougainville Operation
Start Year 1943	End Year 1943
Description The Bougainville campaign (Operation Cherry Blossom) was fought by the Allies in the South Pacific during World War II to regain control of the island of Bougainville from the Japanese forces who had occupied it in 1942. During their occupation the Japanese constructed naval aircraft bases in the north, east, and south of the island; but none in the west. They developed a naval anchorage at Tonolei Harbor near Buin, their largest base, on the southern coastal plain of Bougainville. On the nearby Treasury and Shortland Islands they built airfields, naval bases and anchorages. These bases helped protect Rabaul, the major Japanese garrison and naval base in Papua New Guinea, while allowing continued expansion to the south-east, down the Solomon Islands chain, to Guadalcanal. The Allied campaign, which had two distinct phases, began on 1 November 1943 and ended on 21 August 1945, with the surrender of the Japanese. Before the war, Bougainville had been administered as part of the Australian Territory of New Guinea, even though, geographically, Bougainville is part of the Solomon Islands chain. The United Kingdom and Germany had traded it for another islands territory which became British rather than German. As a result, the campaign is referred to as part of both the New Guinea and the Solomon Islands campaigns.

My Participation in This Battle or Operation
From Year 1943	To Year 1943

Last Updated: 14 days ago

Personal Memories
Memories Mid-October found Kidd underway with a formidable task force to strike Rabaul and to support the Bougainville landings. Upon reaching a strike position south of Rabaul on the morning of 11 November, the task force struck hard at Japanese positions on the island.