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Casualty Info
Home Town Chicago, IL
Last Address USS Strong in the Pacific.
Remembered at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial - Philippines
Casualty Date Jul 05, 1943
Cause KIA-Body Not Recovered
Reason Torpedoed
Location Pacific Ocean
Conflict World War II
Location of Interment Buried at Sea - N/A, Pacific Ocean
Wall/Plot Coordinates Lost at sea with the USS Strong off the Solomons.
World War II/European-African-Middle Eastern Theater/Algeria-French Morocco Campaign (1942)
From Month/Year
November / 1942
To Month/Year
November / 1942
Description (Algeria-French Morocco Campaign 8-11 November 1942) Three days after their victory at El Alamein the Allies opened a new front with an assault on Algeria and French Morocco. Twelfth Air Force, with some units based on Gibraltar, some aboard the invasion fleet, and some bearing paratroops from England, entered combat at this time. The campaign was brkf, for the French in Algeria and French Morocco offered little resistance to the invaders.)