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Contact Info
Home Town Bayonne
Last Address Malibu, CA
Date of Passing Jun 24, 1997
Location of Interment Westwood Memorial Cemetery - Westwood, California
Wall/Plot Coordinates Plot: Garden of Serenity new Memorial Garden
Central Pacific Campaign (1941-43)/Gilbert Islands Operation (1943)
From Month/Year
November / 1943
To Month/Year
December / 1943
Description (Gilbert Islands operation November 13 - December 8, 1943) In the Pacific Theater of World War II, the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign, from November 1943 through February 1944, were key strategic operations of the United States Pacific Fleet and Marine Corps in the Central Pacific. The purpose was to establish airfields that would allow land based air support for the upcoming operations across the Central Pacific. The campaign began with a costly three-day battle for the island of Betio at the Tarawa atoll. The campaign was preceded a year earlier by a diversionary raid on Makin Island by U.S. Marines in August, 1942.
Japanese bases in the Gilbert and Marshall Islands were the outer perimeter of eastern defenses for the Japanese Empire. The Marianas Campaign followed the next summer.
