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Casualty Info
Home Town Loutre
Last Address Rhineland
Casualty Date Jun 08, 1943
Cause KIA-Died of Wounds
Reason Air Loss, Crash - Sea
Location Pacific
Conflict World War II
Location of Interment Golden Gate National Cemetery (VA) - San Bruno, California
World War II/Asiatic-Pacific Theater/Central Pacific Campaign (1941-43)
From Month/Year
December / 1941
To Month/Year
December / 1943
Description The war in the Central Pacific (7 December 1941 to 6 December 1943) began with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. Six months later an AAF task force took part in the Battle of Midway, in which a great Japanese fleet was defeated. But another year and a half elapsed before American forces began an offensive against Japanese positions in the Central Pacific. It was then, on 20 November 1943, that landings were made in the Gilberts, on Makin and Tarawa, with the Marines at the latter place becoming engaged in one of the bloodiest battles of the war.
