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Lucas, Ira Jackson (Jack), Cpl.
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Contact Info
Home Town Princeton, West Virginia
Last Address Roanoke, VA
Date of Passing Aug 20, 2004
Location of Interment Sherwood Memorial Park - Salem, Virginia
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Other Comments:
Unknown why options not available to list that he was a member of the 11th Airborne Division as a paratrooper - but that's what he was. One combat jump.
Had paratrooper and glider wings. Expert bars with Rifle and Carbine. Honorable Service Lapel Button, WWII.
He's my dad - and my hero.
WWII - 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.
21 Named Campaigns were recognized in the Asiatic Pacific Theater with Battle Streamers and Asiatic Pacific Campaign Medals.
