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Casualty Info
Home Town Harrisburg
Last Address USS Salt Lake City (CA-25)
Casualty Date Oct 25, 1944
Cause Non Hostile- Body Not Recovered
Reason Drowned, Suffocated
Location South China Sea
Conflict World War II/Asiatic-Pacific Theater/Leyte Campaign (1944)
Location of Interment Manila American Cemetery - Taguig City, Philippines
Aleutians Islands Campaign (1942-43)/Invasion & Occupation of Attu
From Month/Year
May / 1943
To Month/Year
May / 1943
Description Because of poor weather, limited photo intel, initial planning estimated 27,000 Japanese garrison troops based on vessel movements. Intel provided just prior to D-day drasticly reduced those estimates to less than 1,600.
