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Contact Info
Home Town Shandaken Ulster Co.
Last Address Roswell, New Mexico
Date of Passing Mar 02, 1992
Location of Interment Santa Fe National Cemetery (VA) - Santa Fe, New Mexico
LtGen. James Profit Riseley, A veteran of Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan,and Tinian, he earned
the Legion of Merit and Bronze Star Medal during WW II combat. Born 7 May 1898, at Shandaken, Ulster County, New York, LtGen. Riseley entered the US Naval Academy during
WW I and upon graduation in 1922, was commissioned a Marine 2nd Lt. that summer he
entered the Marine officers Basic School at Quantico.
In June 1949,he was ordered to Princeton University, where he commanded the Naval
Reserve Officers Training Corps Unit and was Professor of Naval Science. He was
promoted to BGen.in Jan.1951,and that July began an eighteen month assignment as
Chief of Staff of theMarine Corps School at Quantico.
He was promoted to MajGen. in September 1953, and to LtGen. upon retiredment in July 1959,
by reason of having been specially commended in combat !
Guadalcanal Campaign (1942-43)/Battle of Tulagi (including First Savo)
From Month/Year
August / 1942
To Month/Year
August / 1942
Description
The Battle of Tulagi and Gavutu–Tanambogo was a land battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II, between the forces of the Imperial Japanese Navy and Allied (mainly United States (U.S.) Marine) ground forces. It took place from 7–9 August 1942 on the Solomon Islands, during the initial Allied landings in the Guadalcanal campaign.
In the battle, U.S. Marines, under the overall command of U.S. Major General Alexander Vandegrift, successfully landed and captured the islands of Tulagi, Gavutu, and Tanambogo among which the Japanese Navy had constructed a naval and seaplane base. The landings were fiercely resisted by the Japanese Navy troops who, outnumbered and outgunned by the Allied forces, fought and died almost to the last man.
At the same time that the landings on Tulagi and Gavutu–Tanambogo were taking place, Allied troops were also landing on nearby Guadalcanal, with the objective of capturing an airfield under construction by Japanese forces. In contrast to the intense fighting on Tulagi and Gavutu, the landings on Guadalcanal were essentially unopposed. The landings on both Tulagi and Guadalcanal initiated the six-month long Guadalcanal campaign and a series of combined-arms battles between Allied and Japanese forces in the Solomon Islands area.
