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Marine BGen Henry Williams Hise.
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Contact Info
Home Town Shamrock
Last Address Lubbock, TX
Date of Passing Oct 15, 2010
Location of Interment Arlington National Cemetery (VLM) - Arlington, Virginia
BGen Henry Hise retired from the USMC in Nov, 1971 with thirty-years of service. He returned to his home state of Texas where de died at the age of 90 on 15Oct 2010.
Other Comments:
In 1971 BGen Hise began a long retirement which was just as active as his service years. He began by teaching international relations and foreign policy at the University of Texas. In 1977, he moved to Austin to become the Executive Director of the Community Mental Health Centers of Texas until 1985.
In 1995 he returned to Guadalcanal with one of his sons and two grandsons.
BGen Hise was known as a talented sculptor, avid gardner and woodworker, and student of philosophy. He had a passion for learning, everything from astronomy to zoology. He was also known as a very kind and able man.
Central Pacific Campaign (1941-43)/Gilbert Islands Operation (1943)
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November / 1943
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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.
