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Clum, Albert Joseph, MM3.
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Contact Info
Home Town Mabel
Last Address La Pine, Oregon
Date of Passing Jul 03, 1988
Location of Interment Upper Mabel Cemetery - Mabel, Oregon
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Additional Information
Last Known Activity:
Through his granddaughter, I have learned that he was serving aboard the USS Wren at the time that we dropped the Atomic Bomb on Nagasaki. and that the ship was stationed 2 miles off the coast at the time.
World War II/Asiatic-Pacific Theater
From Month/Year
December / 1941
To Month/Year
September / 1945
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.
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