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Contact Info
Home Town Charlotte, North Carolina
Date of Passing Dec 27, 1973
Location of Interment Arlington National Cemetery (VLM) - Arlington, Virginia
Navy Cross
Awarded for Actions During World War I
Service: Navy
Division: U.S.S. Stewart
Citation: The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy Cross to Lieutenant Commander Eugene Thompson Oates, United States Navy, for distinguished service in the line of his profession as Commanding Officer of the U.S.S. STEWART, engaged in the important, exacting and hazardous duty of patrolling the waters infested with enemy submarines and mines, in escorting and protecting vitally important convoys of troops and supplies through these waters, and in offensive and defensive action, vigorously and unremittingly prosecuted against all forms of enemy naval activity during World War I.
US Occupation of Nicaragua
From Month/Year
May / 1912
To Month/Year
December / 1933
Description The United States occupation of Nicaragua from 1912 to 1933 was part of the Banana Wars, when American troops forcefully intervened with various Latin American countries from 1898 to 1934. The formal occupation began in 1912, even though there were various other assaults by the U.S. in Nicaragua throughout this period. American military interventions in Nicaragua were designed to stop any other nation except the United States of America from building a Nicaraguan Canal.
Nicaragua assumed a quasi-protectorate status under the 1916 Bryan–Chamorro Treaty. But with the onset of the Great Depression and Augusto C. Sandino's Nicaraguan guerrilla troops fighting back against U.S. troops, it became too costly for the U.S. government and a withdrawal was ordered in 1933.
