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Wattson, Charles, S1c.
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Home Town Gaylord
Last Address Indian River, MI
Date of Passing Oct 12, 2010
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Charles Walter "Chuck" Wattson, 83, passed away on 12 October 2010 at is home in Indian River, Michigan. He is survived by his four sons James, Russell, Thomas, Timothy, daughters Cheryl, Marilynn, 7 grand children and 5 great grand children. His wife Mary Jane (Parlett) passed away on 18 April 2017.
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.