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Casualty Info
Home Town Philadelphia. PA
Last Address Woodbine, NJ
Casualty Date Oct 16, 1951
Cause KIA-Body Not Recovered
Reason Air Loss, Crash - Land
Location Korea, North
Conflict Korean War
Location of Interment Arlington National Cemetery (VLM) - Arlington, Virginia
Wall/Plot Coordinates MF 30-4 (memorial)
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Last Known Activity:
Lieutenant Commander Oxley was the pilot of a F2H-2 Banshee fighter with Fighter Squadron 172 aboard the carrier USS ESSEX (CV-9). On October 16, 1951, while on an armed reconnaissance flight, his aircraft was struck by anti-aircraft fire near Majon-ni, North Korea, crashed and exploded upon impact. His remains were not recovered.
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Service number: 165618
The information contained in this profile was compiled from various internet sources.
World War II/Asiatic-Pacific Theater/Treasury-Bougainville Operation
From Month/Year
October / 1943
To Month/Year
December / 1943
Description The Bougainville campaign (Operation Cherry Blossom) was fought by the Allies in the South Pacific during World War II to regain control of the island of Bougainville from the Japanese forces who had occupied it in 1942. During their occupation the Japanese constructed naval aircraft bases in the north, east, and south of the island; but none in the west. They developed a naval anchorage at Tonolei Harbor near Buin, their largest base, on the southern coastal plain of Bougainville. On the nearby Treasury and Shortland Islands they built airfields, naval bases and anchorages. These bases helped protect Rabaul, the major Japanese garrison and naval base in Papua New Guinea, while allowing continued expansion to the south-east, down the Solomon Islands chain, to Guadalcanal.
The Allied campaign, which had two distinct phases, began on 1 November 1943 and ended on 21 August 1945, with the surrender of the Japanese.
Before the war, Bougainville had been administered as part of the Australian Territory of New Guinea, even though, geographically, Bougainville is part of the Solomon Islands chain. The United Kingdom and Germany had traded it for another islands territory which became British rather than German. As a result, the campaign is referred to as part of both the New Guinea and the Solomon Islands campaigns.
