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Casualty Info
Home Town Newton, MO
Last Address Joplin, MO
Casualty Date Dec 05, 1950
Cause MIA-Finding of Death
Reason Gun, Small Arms Fire
Location Korea, North
Conflict Korean War
Location of Interment Powers Cemetery - Pepsin, Missouri
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.
