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This Remembrance Profile was originally created by MSG John Porter - Deceased
Contact Info
Last Address MARINETTE WI
Date of Passing Oct 15, 2002
Location of Interment Forest Home Cemetery - Marinette, Wisconsin
Wall/Plot Coordinates NICHE-6 EAST-K-1
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Other Comments:
IF ANYONE VIEWING THIS SITE CAN IDENTIFY ANY OF THE OTHER SOLDIER'S PICTURE'S, OR KNOW'S WHAT UNIT THEY WERE IN WHEN TAKEN PLEASE LET ME KNOW! CLEM'S DISCHARGE RECORDS DON'T SHOW HIS UNIT'S OF ASSIGNMENT. HE IS KNOW TO HAVE BEEN AT PEARL WHEN WAR STARTED, AND SERVED ALL THREW THE PACIFIC ALL THE WAY TO OKINAWA.. IT'S BELIEVED MOST OF HIS DUTY WAS WITH THE COMBAT ENGR'S. HIS DISCHARGE SHOW'S CAMPAIGNS AS: CENTRAL PACIFIC, EAST MANDATES, & WESTERN PACIFIC 1942 TO 1945.
HIS MILITARY RECORDS WERE DISTROYED IN THE ST LOUIS FIRE, HIS FAMILY WOULD LIKE MORE INFO, IE WHAT UNIT'S HE WAS IN, ETC.
Ryukyus Campaign (1945)/Battle of Okinawa
From Month/Year
April / 1945
To Month/Year
June / 1945
Description The Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg, was fought on the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa and was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War of World War II. The 82-day-long battle lasted from early April until mid-June 1945. After a long campaign of island hopping, the Allies were approaching Japan, and planned to use Okinawa, a large island only 340 mi (550 km) away from mainland Japan, as a base for air operations on the planned invasion of Japanese mainland (coded Operation Downfall). Four divisions of the U.S. 10th Army (the 7th, 27th, 77th, and 96th) and two Marine Divisions (the 1st and 6th) fought on the island. Their invasion was supported by naval, amphibious, and tactical air forces.
The battle has been referred to as the "typhoon of steel" in English, and tetsu no ame ("rain of steel") or tetsu no bufū ("violent wind of steel") in Japanese. The nicknames refer to the ferocity of the fighting, the intensity of kamikaze attacks from the Japanese defenders, and to the sheer numbers of Allied ships and armored vehicles that assaulted the island. The battle resulted in the highest number of casualties in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Based on Okinawan government sources, mainland Japan lost 77,166 soldiers, who were either killed or committed suicide, and the Allies suffered 14,009 deaths (with an estimated total of more than 65,000 casualties of all kinds). Simultaneously, 42,000–150,000 local civilians were killed or committed suicide, a significant proportion of the local population. The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki together with the Soviet invasion of Manchuria caused Japan to surrender less than two months after the end of the fighting on Okinawa.
