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Eye, Arlie B., T/5.
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Home Town Ruddle
Date of Passing Feb 13, 1988
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TECHNICIAN FIFTH GRADE ARLIE B. EYE WAS A CARPENTER IN DEARBORN MICHIGAN BEFORE BEING INDUCTED ON 21 APRIL 1941. T/5 EYE SERVED IN ALASKA FROM 5 JULY 1942 TO 11 AUGUST 1944 (UNKNOWN UNIT). AFTER SERVING IN THE STATES FOR A YEAR HE WAS SENT TO EUROPE AND WAS ASSIGNED TO COMPANY "C" 395TH INFANTRY REGIMENT, 99TH INFANTRY DIVISION. AFTER OCCUPATION DUTY ARLIE WAS SENT HOME AND WAS HONORABLY DISCHARGED ON 4 OCTOBER 1945 AT FORT MEADE MARYLAND. ARLIE B. EYE PASSED AWAY IN DEARBORN HEIGHTS MICHIGAN ON 13 FEBRUARY 1988.
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.
