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Casualty Info
Last Address USS Rocky Mount (AGC-3)
Casualty Date Jun 18, 1945
Cause Non Hostile- Died of Illness, Other Injury
Reason Heart Attack
Location South China Sea
Conflict World War II/Asiatic-Pacific Theater/Philippine Islands Campaign (1941-42)/Battle of the Philippines
Luzon Campaign (1944-45)/Invasion of Lingayen Gulf
From Month/Year
January / 1945
To Month/Year
January / 1945
Description The Invasion of Lingayen Gulf was an Allied amphibious operation in the Philippines during World War II. In the early morning of 6 January 1945, a large Allied force commanded by Admiral Jesse B. Oldendorf began approaching the shores of Lingayen. U.S. Navy and Royal Australian Navy warships began bombarding suspected Japanese positions along the coast of Lingayen from their position in Lingayen Gulf for three days. On 9 January, the U.S. 6th Army landed on a 20 mi (32 km) beachhead between the towns of Lingayen and San Fabian.