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Casualty Info
Home Town Bellflower, CA
Last Address 5620 Rocket St Bellflower, CA
Casualty Date Sep 14, 1942
Cause MIA-Died in Captivity
Reason Other Cause
Location Guam
Conflict World War II
Location of Interment Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial - Honolulu, Hawaii
Wall/Plot Coordinates Court 2 (cenotaph)
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Additional Information
Last Known Activity:
The Battle of Guam began on December 8, 1941. By January 10, 1942 five hundred US prisoners had been rounded up and placed aboard ship to be taken to Japan. Six men were unaccounted for - one of them being YN1 Yablonsky. George Tweed, who survived the war, said he and the other men went into the hungle and evaded capture for as long as possible.
During the latter part of the war, Tweed was harbored by the family of Antonio Artero. Krump, Jones and Yablonsky were discovered in the Manenggon area in September 1942 and were beheaded by the Japanese. Two months later, Tyson and Johnston were found and shot in Machananao after having been harbored by Frank D. Perez and others.
As yet, the bodies of the men have not been recovered and so their names remain on the official list of men missing in action.
Comments/Citation:
Service number: 2433528
Prisoner of War Medal
Awarded for action during World War II
Service: Navy
Rank: Yeoman First Class
Division: Prisoner of War (Guam)
General Orders: NARA Database: Records of World War II Prisoners of War, created, 1942 - 1947
Citation: Yeoman First Class Adolphe Yablonsky (NSN: 2433528), United States Navy, was captured on Guam on 11 September 1942, after evading the Japanese subsequent to the invasion on 8 December 1941. He was executed in captivity shortly after his capture.
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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.
