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Rickert, Oliver Albert, Maj USAF(Ret).
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Contact Info
Home Town Waterloo
Last Address San Antonio, Texas
Date of Passing Apr 28, 2008
Location of Interment Mission Burial Park North - San Antonio, Texas
Official Badges
Unofficial Badges
WWII - Pacific Theater of Operations/Southern Philippines Campaign (1945)
From Month/Year
February / 1945
To Month/Year
July / 1945
Description (Southern Philippines Campaign 27 February to 4 July 1945) After Luzon had been invaded and Manila taken, a series of landings were made in the southern Philippines, on Palawan, Mindanao, Panay, Cebu, Negros, and other islands. In some places the Japanese offered little resistance; in others they held out for considerable time. The liberation of the Philippines was announced by MacArthur on 5 July 1945.
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