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Cruzen, Richard Harold (Dick), VADM USN(Ret).
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Contact Info
Home Town Kansas City, MO
Last Address San Clemente, CA
Date of Passing Apr 15, 1970
Location of Interment Arlington National Cemetery (VLM) - Arlington, Virginia
As a Commander, Richard Cruz took part in Admiral Byrd's expedition to Antarctica. He returned to that area again as a Rear Admiral in charge of Operation High Jump.
Other Comments:
"I consider the War Trials as one of the more disgraceful manifestations of the past war hysteria." - quote by Vice Admiral Richard H. Cruzen, U.S.N.
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.
