Last Primary NEC
110X-Unrestricted Line Officer - No Specialty Engagement
Last Rating/NEC Group
Line Officer
Service Years
1920 - 1954
Last Photo
Personal Details
Home State
Kentucky
Year of Birth 1898
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Contact Info
Home Town Richmond, Kentucky
Last Address Ocala, Florida
Date of Passing Apr 12, 1974
Location of Interment Richmond Cemetery - Richmond, Kentucky
Wall/Plot Coordinates Unknown
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Thomas Brittain graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Class of 1920. He retired as a U.S. Navy Vice Admiral.
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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.
