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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.
Description The war in the Central Pacific (7 December 1941 to 6 December 1943) began with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. Six months later an AAF task force took part in the Battle of Midway, in which a great Japanese fleet was defeated. But another year and a half elapsed before American forces began an offensive against Japanese positions in the Central Pacific. It was then, on 20 November 1943, that landings were made in the Gilberts, on Makin and Tarawa, with the Marines at the latter place becoming engaged in one of the bloodiest battles of the war.
