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Acuna., Miguel Lara, GMC USN(Ret).
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Contact Info
Home Town Corpus Christi, TX
Last Address Un ranchito in South Texas
Date of Passing Aug 19, 2007
Location of Interment Seaside Memorial Park Mausoleum - Corpus Christi, Texas
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Last Known Activity:
Mike was a great American. A proud Pearl Harbor Survivor. A father of six and a nice neighbor; a retired CPO and a retired Civil Servant at CCAD(Corpus Christi Army Depot). Mike is buried close to my dad, who is also a WWII veteran. I miss them both. The world is a better place because of their service and family.
Activity during WWII:
Aboard USS Vestal at Pearl Harbor, and served on the her until 1943. He was then transferred to the USS Titanina for the rest of the war. He took part in the landings in North Africa, Bougaineville, Leyte Gulf, Guam, Borneo and many others in the Pacific.
Korean War:
He was aboard the USS Los Angeles when it was hit by shore batteries from North Korea.
World War II/Asiatic-Pacific Theater/Northern Solomon Islands Campaign (1943-44)
From Month/Year
February / 1943
To Month/Year
November / 1944
Description The Solomon Islands campaign was a major campaign of the Pacific War of World War II. The campaign began with Japanese landings and occupation of several areas in the British Solomon Islands and Bougainville, in the Territory of New Guinea, during the first six months of 1942. The Japanese occupied these locations and began the construction of several naval and air bases with the goals of protecting the flank of the Japanese offensive in New Guinea, establishing a security barrier for the major Japanese base at Rabaul on New Britain, and providing bases for interdicting supply lines between the Allied powers of the United States and Australia and New Zealand.
The Allies, in order to defend their communication and supply lines in the South Pacific, supported a counteroffensive in New Guinea, isolated the Japanese base at Rabaul, and counterattacked the Japanese in the Solomons with landings on Guadalcanal (see Guadalcanal Campaign) and small neighboring islands on 7 August 1942. These landings initiated a series of combined-arms battles between the two adversaries, beginning with the Guadalcanal landing and continuing with several battles in the central and northern Solomons, on and around New Georgia Island, and Bougainville Island.
In a campaign of attrition fought on land, on sea, and in the air, the Allies wore the Japanese down, inflicting irreplaceable losses on Japanese military assets. The Allies retook some of the Solomon Islands (although resistance continued until the end of the war), and they also isolated and neutralized some Japanese positions, which were then bypassed. The Solomon Islands campaign then converged with the New Guinea campaign.
