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Marine MGen Oscar Ray Cauldwell (Speed).
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Contact Info
Home Town Nyesville, Ind
Last Address Hartford, Conn
Date of Passing Sep 08, 1959
Location of Interment Arlington National Cemetery (VLM) - Arlington, Virginia
ACCORDING TO CORP DONALD WITHEE, AFTER I INTRODUCED THE GENERAL TO GYSGT JOHN BASSILONE (MOH), HE SAID THE GENERAL WAS GRACIOUS AND DOWN TO EARTH. WE HAD A GOOD " MARINE TO MARINE " CHAT.
World War II/Asiatic-Pacific Theater
From Month/Year
December / 1941
To Month/Year
September / 1945
Description The plan of the Pacific subseries was determined by the geography, strategy, and the military organization of a theater largely oceanic. Two independent, coordinate commands, one in the Southwest Pacific under General of the Army Douglas MacArthur and the other in the Central, South, and North Pacific (Pacific Ocean Areas) under Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, were created early in the war. Except in the South and Southwest Pacific, each conducted its own operations with its own ground, air, and naval forces in widely separated areas. These operations required at first only a relatively small number of troops whose efforts often yielded strategic gains which cannot be measured by the size of the forces involved. Indeed, the nature of the objectivesùsmall islands, coral atolls, and jungle-bound harbors and airstrips, made the employment of large ground forces impossible and highlighted the importance of air and naval operations. Thus, until 1945, the war in the Pacific progressed by a double series of amphibious operations each of which fitted into a strategic pattern developed in Washington.
