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Contact Info
Home Town New Brighton, PA
Last Address Cincinnati, OH
Date of Passing Oct 11, 2008
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Aleutians Islands Campaign (1942-43)/Invasion & Occupation of Attu
From Month/Year
May / 1943
To Month/Year
May / 1943
Description Because of poor weather, limited photo intel, initial planning estimated 27,000 Japanese garrison troops based on vessel movements. Intel provided just prior to D-day drasticly reduced those estimates to less than 1,600.
