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Home Town Thomas
Date of Passing Jun 30, 1978
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STAFF SERGEANT GROVER CLEVELAND FANSLER JR. WORKED AS A CARPENTER'S HELPER BEFORE HE ENLISTED ON 15 MARCH 1939. HE SERVED IN THE PACIFIC THEATER DURING THE EAST INDIES CAMPAIGN (UNKNOWN UNIT) BEFORE BEING ASSIGNED TO THE 808TH FA BN. ON 24 SEPTEMBER S/SGT FANSLER SAILED FOR EUROPE WITH SERVICE BATTERY 808TH FIELD ARTILLERY BATTALION UNTIL 11 SEPTEMBER 1945. DURING HIS TIME IN THE ARMY S/SGT FANSLER ALSO ATTENDED THE POST RADIO SCHOOL AT CAMP EDWARDS MISSISSIPPI. ON 11 NOVEMBER 1945 FANSLER WAS HONORABLY DISCHARGED AT FORT MEADE MARYLAND. GROVER FANSLER PASSED AWAY IN THOMAS WEST VIRGINIA IN JUNE 1978.
Description (East Indies Campaign 1 January to 22 July 1942) On 7 December 1941 Japan turned its war on the Asian mainland south and eastward into the Pacifc. Attacks within hours on the Malay Peninsula, Hong Kong, Hawaii, Wake, Guam, and the Philippines not only shocked Allied governments, who believed Japanese envoys had been negotiating in good faith in Washington, but also caught them poorly prepared for war along the Asian rimlands. By the end of the day a sizable Japanese amphibious force had established itself on the
Malay Peninsula; the backbone of the U.S. Pacific Fleet lay twisted and burning in the mud of Pearl Harbor; hundreds of Western aircraft sprawled crumpled on airfields and hillsides across the Central and South Pacific; and neither the British Eastern Fleet nor Royal Netherlands Navy units in the Pacifc could steam safely through the Indian Ocean, around Malaya, or in the East Indies. It was imperative that the Western Powers somehow stop the Japanese southward advance, which now threatened to drive a wedge between the British in the Indian Ocean and the Americans in the Pacifc, to seize the East
Indies with its valuable natural resources, and to isolate Australia from both the United States and the British Commonwealth.