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Casualty Info
Home Town Foxboro, MA
Last Address Foxboro, MA
Casualty Date Aug 05, 1944
Cause MIA-Died in Captivity
Reason Intentional Homicide
Location Japan
Conflict World War II
Location of Interment Mount Hope Cemetery - Mattapan, Massachusetts
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Last Known Activity:
ENS Hindenlang was stationed with VB-109 and flew missions out of Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands when, on August 4, 1944 his the B-24 Liberator on which he was co-pilot was shot down over Chichi Jima. He was captured by the Japanese. After being wuestioned by his captors, he was beheaded by his captors on August 5, 1944.
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Service number: 306200
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Marshall Islands Operation (1944)/Battle of Kwajalein Atoll (Operation Flintlock)
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January / 1944
To Month/Year
February / 1944
Description The Battle of Kwajalein was fought as part of the Pacific campaign of World War II. It took place from 31 January-3 February 1944, on Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands. Employing the hard-learned lessons of the battle of Tarawa, the United States launched a successful twin assault on the main islands of Kwajalein in the south and Roi-Namur in the north. The Japanese defenders put up stiff resistance, although outnumbered and under-prepared. The determined defense of Roi-Namur left only 51 survivors of an original garrison of 3,500.
For the US, the battle represented both the next step in its island-hopping march to Japan and a significant moral victory because it was the first time the Americans had penetrated the "outer ring" of the Japanese Pacific sphere. For the Japanese, the battle represented the failure of the beach-line defense. Japanese defenses became prepared in depth, and the battles of Peleliu, Guam, and the Marianas proved far more costly to the US.