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Contact Info
Home Town Newport
Date of Passing Feb 17, 2019
Location of Interment Saint Columbus Cemetery - Middletown, Rhode Island
World War II/Asiatic-Pacific Theater/Leyte Campaign (1944)
From Month/Year
October / 1944
To Month/Year
November / 1944
Description The Battle of Leyte in the Pacific campaign of World War II was the amphibious invasion of the Gulf of Leyte in the Philippines by American and Filipino guerrilla forces under the command of General Douglas MacArthur, who fought against the Imperial Japanese Army in the Philippines led by General Tomoyuki Yamashita from 17 October 1944 - 1 July 1945. The operation code named King Two launched the Philippines campaign of 1944–45 for the recapture and liberation of the entire Philippine Archipelago and to end almost three years of Japanese occupation.
MARSHALL ISLANDS OPERATION
Occupation of Kwajalein and Majuro Atolls: 29 January - 8 February 1944.
1 Star
ASIATIC-PACIFIC RAIDS - 1944
Truk attack: 16 - 17 February 1944.
Palau, Yap, Ulithi, Woleai raid: 30 March - 1 April 1944.
Truk, Satawan, Ponape raid: 29 April - 1 May 1944.
1 Star
HOLLANDIA OPERATION
Aitape - Humboldt Bay - Tanahmerah Bay: April - 1 June 1944.
1 Star
MARIANAS OPERATION
Capture and occupation of Saipan: 11 June - 24 June 1944.
Battle of Philippine Sea: 19 - 20 June 1944.
Third Bonins raid: 3 - 4 July 1944.
Capture and Occupation of Guam: 12 July - 15 August 1944.
Palau, Yap, Ulithi raid: 25 - 27 July 1944.
1 Star
WESTERN CAROLINE ISLANDS OPERATION
Capture and occupation of South Palau Islands, 6 September - 14 October 1944.
Assaults on the Philippine Islands: 9 - 24 September 1944.
1 Star
LEYTE OPERATION
Third Fleet supporting operations for Okinawa attack: 10 October 1944.
Northern Luzon and Formosa attacks: 13 - 14 October 1944.
Luzon attacks: 15 October - 16 December 1944.
Battle of Surigao Strait: 25 - 26 October 1944.
1 Star
LUZON OPERATION
Third Fleet supporting operations - Formosa attacks: 3 - 21 January 1945.
Lingayen Gulf landing: 4 January - 16 February 1945.
Third Fleet supporting operations - Luzon attacks: 6 - 7 January 1945.
Third Fleet supporting operations - China Coast attacks: 12 - 16 January 1945.
Third Fleet supporting operations - Nansei Shoto attack: 22 January 1945.
1 Star
IWO JIMA OPERATION
Fifth Fleet raids against Honshu and the Nansei Shoto: 15 February - 4 March 1945.
1 Star
OKINAWA GUNTO OPERATION
Assault and occupation of Okinawa: 17 March - 28 May 1945.
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