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Casualty Info
Home Town McGregor, Texas
Last Address North Field, Tinian, Mariana Islands
Casualty Date May 29, 1945
Cause MIA-Finding of Death
Reason Multiple Fragmentation Wounds
Location Japan
Conflict World War II/Asian-Pacific Theater
Location of Interment Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery (VA) - St. Louis, Missouri
WWII - Pacific Theater of Operations/Philippine Islands Campaign (1941-42)
From Month/Year
December / 1941
To Month/Year
May / 1942
Description (Philippine Islands Campaign 7 Dec 1941 to 10 May 1942 ) A few hours after the raid on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, Japanese aircraft attacked the Philippines. Three days later Japanese troops landed on Luzon. America’s meager air power in the islands was soon destroyed. Unable to obtain reinforcements and supplies, MacArthur could do nothing more than fight a delaying action. Between 16 and 18 December the few bombing planes that remained were evacuated, by their crews, to Australia, where US air power in the Far East was to be concentrated. Other members of the air units took up arms and fought as infantrymen in the battle that ended, at Bataan and Corregidor, with the loss of the Philippines in May 1942.
