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This Remembrance Profile was originally created by MSG John Porter - Deceased
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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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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 26 March to 2 July 1945) The invasion of the Ryukyus was made by troops of the U.S. Tenth Army, which had been activated on 20 June 1944 with Lt. Gen. Simon B. Buckner, Jr., as commanding general. The Ryukyus campaign began on 26 March 1945 with the capture of small islands near Okinawa, where forward naval bases were established. An amphibious assault on Okinawa took place on 1 April, and the fighting lasted until June. Here, for the first time, Americans were invading what the Japanese defenders considered their home soil, and the defense was fanatic in the extreme. American troops suffered heavy casualties, and the Navy, too, had heavy personnel losses as Japanese suicide flyers, the Kamikazes, sank some 25 American ships and damaged 165 others in a desperate attempt to save the Ryukyus. Among the nearly 35,000 American casualties were General Buckner, who was killed on 18 June. He was succeeded by Maj. Gen. Roy S. Geiger, who was in turn succeeded by General Joseph W. Stilwell, who arrived to assume command of the Tenth Army on 22 June 1945.
Capture of the Ryukyus gave Allied naval and air forces excellent bases within 700 miles of Japan proper. Throughout June and July, Japan was subjected to increasingly intensive air attack and even to naval bombardment.