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Casualty Info
Home Town Granby, MO
Last Address Wormingford Air Station, England
Casualty Date Jan 15, 1945
Cause MIA-Finding of Death
Reason Air Loss, Crash - Land
Location France
Conflict World War II
Location of Interment Springfield National Cemetery (VA) - Springfield, Missouri
WWII - Pacific Theater of Operations/Central Pacific Campaign (1941-43)
From Month/Year
December / 1941
To Month/Year
December / 1943
Description (Central Pacific Campaign 7 December 1941 to 6 December 1943) The war in the Central Pacific began with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. Six months later an AAF task force took part in the Battle of Midway, in which a great Japanese fleet was defeated. But another year and a half elapsed before American forces began an offensive against Japanese positions in the Central Pacific. It was then, on 20 November 1943, that landings were made in the Gilberts, on Makin and Tarawa, with the Marines at the latter place becoming engaged in one of the bloodiest battles of the war.
