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Marine BGen Carl Fleps.
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Contact Info
Home Town Youngstown
Last Address McClean, VA
Date of Passing Feb 28, 2007
Location of Interment Arlington National Cemetery (VLM) - Arlington, Virginia
Upon his retirement from the USMC in 1956, Gen. Fleps was promoted to the rank of BGen. The promotion was awarded in recognition of his meritorious wartime service.
Following his retirement, BGen Fleps launched a successful business career. He rose to the position of Vice President with the Greyhound Corporation, later the Dial Corporation. During the 1960 presidential campaign, he led the "Maryland Volunteers for Nixon-Lodge" organization. After leaving the Dial Corporation in 1979, he then held a position with the American Enterprise Institute, in Washington, D.C. for one-year.
Other Comments:
BGen Fleps died of complications from Parkinson's Disease on February 28, 2007. He was buried with full-military honors at Arlington National Cemetery.
World War II/Asiatic-Pacific Theater/Northern Solomon Islands Campaign (1943-44)
From Month/Year
February / 1943
To Month/Year
November / 1944
Description The Solomon Islands campaign was a major campaign of the Pacific War of World War II. The campaign began with Japanese landings and occupation of several areas in the British Solomon Islands and Bougainville, in the Territory of New Guinea, during the first six months of 1942. The Japanese occupied these locations and began the construction of several naval and air bases with the goals of protecting the flank of the Japanese offensive in New Guinea, establishing a security barrier for the major Japanese base at Rabaul on New Britain, and providing bases for interdicting supply lines between the Allied powers of the United States and Australia and New Zealand.
The Allies, in order to defend their communication and supply lines in the South Pacific, supported a counteroffensive in New Guinea, isolated the Japanese base at Rabaul, and counterattacked the Japanese in the Solomons with landings on Guadalcanal (see Guadalcanal Campaign) and small neighboring islands on 7 August 1942. These landings initiated a series of combined-arms battles between the two adversaries, beginning with the Guadalcanal landing and continuing with several battles in the central and northern Solomons, on and around New Georgia Island, and Bougainville Island.
In a campaign of attrition fought on land, on sea, and in the air, the Allies wore the Japanese down, inflicting irreplaceable losses on Japanese military assets. The Allies retook some of the Solomon Islands (although resistance continued until the end of the war), and they also isolated and neutralized some Japanese positions, which were then bypassed. The Solomon Islands campaign then converged with the New Guinea campaign.
