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Home Town Baltimore
Last Address Burial: Saint Thomas Episcopal Church Cemetery Owings Mills Baltimore County Maryland, USA
Date of Passing Mar 10, 1984
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Captain Lyttleton Brockenbrough Ensey, USN
Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941.
Lyttleton Ensey was awarded a Letter of Commendation, with Ribbon and Combat "V" for "distinguished service in the line of his profession during the attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, T.H., by Japanese forces on December 7, 1941, in the performance of his duties as Officer of the Deck of the USS Tracy in a most efficient manner..."
World War II: Lyttleton would go on to see action in the Pacific raids of 1943: the Gilbert Islands operation; the occupation of Kwajalein, Majuro Atolls and Eniwetok Atoll, in the Marshall Islands; the Hollandia operation; Morotai landings; the capture and occupation of Guam; Leyte landings; assault and occupation of Iwo Jima and FIFTH Fleet raids on Honshu and Nansei Shoto; and FIFTH and THIRD Fleet raids in support of Okinawa Gunto operation.
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.
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Last Updated: Mar 16, 2020
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Memories Ensey was on board the USS Tracy at Pearl Harbor on Dec 7, 1941 and later participated in the Guadalcanal Tulagi landings (including First Savo).
