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Casualty Info
Home Town New Haven, CT; Mount Penn, PA; Troy, NY
Last Address Tarawa Airfield (Hawkins Field), Betio Island, Tarawa Atoll, Gilbert Islands (present-day Kiribati)
Casualty Date Jan 21, 1944
Cause Non Hostile- Died Other Causes
Reason Air Loss, Crash - Sea
Location Kiribati
Location of Interment Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial - Honolulu, Hawaii
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.
