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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
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WWII - Pacific Theater of Operations/Bismarck Archipelago Campaign (1943-44)
From Month/Year
December / 1943
To Month/Year
November / 1944
Description (Bismarck Archipelago Campaign 15 December 1943 to 27 November 1944) To isolate and neutralize Rabaul on New Britain and the Japanese base at Kavieng on New Ireland, American forces landed at Arawe and Cape Gloucester in December 1943, on Green and Los Negros Islands in February 1944, and at Talasea on New Britain and on Manus Island in March. Some other enemy forces in the Bismarck Archipelago were bypassed.