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Casualty Info
Home Town Saratoga Springs
Last Address D.C Maryland
Casualty Date Jul 30, 1944
Cause KIA-Killed in Action
Reason Multiple Fragmentation Wounds
Location Guam
Conflict World War II
Location of Interment Long Island National Cemetery (VA) - Farmingdale, New York
Description The Landing on Emirau (20-27 March 1944) was the last of the series of operations that made up Operation Cartwheel, General Douglas MacArthur's strategy for the encirclement of the major Japanese base at Rabaul. A force of nearly 4,000 United States Marines landed on the island of Emirau on 20 March 1944. The island was not occupied by the Japanese and there was no fighting. It was developed into an airbase which formed the final link in the chain of bases surrounding Rabaul. The isolation of Rabaul permitted MacArthur to turn his attention westward and commence his drive along the north coast of New Guinea toward the Philippines.
