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Casualty Info
Home Town Pittsburgh, PA
Last Address Pittsburgh, PA
Casualty Date Oct 12, 1944
Cause KIA-Body Not Recovered
Reason Lost At Sea-Unrecovered
Conflict World War II
Location of Interment Manila American Cemetery - Taguig City, Philippines
Wall/Plot Coordinates Tablets of the Missing (cenotaph)
World War II/Asiatic-Pacific Theater/Leyte Campaign (1944)
From Month/Year
October / 1944
To Month/Year
November / 1944
Description The Battle of Leyte in the Pacific campaign of World War II was the amphibious invasion of the Gulf of Leyte in the Philippines by American and Filipino guerrilla forces under the command of General Douglas MacArthur, who fought against the Imperial Japanese Army in the Philippines led by General Tomoyuki Yamashita from 17 October 1944 - 1 July 1945. The operation code named King Two launched the Philippines campaign of 1944–45 for the recapture and liberation of the entire Philippine Archipelago and to end almost three years of Japanese occupation.