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Beagles, John David, FCC.
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Casualty Info
Home Town Nashua, IA
Last Address Charles City, IA
Casualty Date Sep 26, 1950
Cause KIA-Killed in Action
Reason Other Explosive Device
Location Pacific Ocean
Conflict Korean War
Location of Interment Buried at Sea, Pacific Ocean
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Additional Information
Last Known Activity:
Chief Firecontrol Technician Beagles served aboard the destroyer USS BRUSH (DD-745) in Korean waters. He was Killed in Action when his ship struck an enemy mine near Tanchon, North Korea on September 26, 1950. He was buried at sea by his shipmates.
World War II/European-African-Middle Eastern Theater/Southern France Campaign (1944)
From Month/Year
August / 1944
To Month/Year
September / 1944
Description (Southern France Campaign 15 August to 14 September 1944) While the Germans were retreating in Italy in the summer of 1944, the Allies diverted some of their strength in the theater to the invasion of Southern France. After preliminary bombardment, a combined seaborne-airborne force landed on the French Riviera on 15 August. Marseilles having been taken, Sevmth Army advanced up the Rhone Valley and by mid-September was in touch with Allied forces that had entered France from the north.
