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Contact Info
Home Town Akron
Last Address 2009 University Ave. Morgantown, WVa
MIA Date Jun 30, 1943
Cause KIA-Killed in Action
Reason Air Loss, Crash - Sea
Location Solomon Islands
Location of Memorial Manila American Cemetery - Taguig City, Philippines
MCARDLE, Robert H, CAPT, O-011818, USMC, from West Virginia, location Solomon Islands, date of loss June 30, 1943 + MCARDLE, Robert H, Captain, O-011818, USMC, from West Virginia, Manila American Cemetery + MCARDLE, Robert Henry, 11818, POW&MPDet, HQUSMC, Washington DC, July 1, 1945, missing-killed in action + MCARDLE, Robert Henry, 1st Lieutenant, USMCR. Wife, Mrs. Marion L. McArdle, 2009 University Ave., Morgantown, WVa
Capt Robert Henry McArdle, pilot, was declared Missing in Action on 30 Jun 1943.
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.
