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Contact Info
Home Town Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
Last Address Richmond, VA
Date of Passing Sep 15, 1979
Location of Interment Buried at Sea, North Atlantic Ocean
After his retirement from the Navy, Jose Cabanillas took advantage of the GI Bill and received a degree in Law. For six years he was the law librarian at the University of Richmond School of Law before joining a law firm in Richmond, VA.
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.