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Fellers, Bonner, BG USA(Ret).
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Contact Info
Date of Passing Oct 07, 1973
Location of Interment Arlington National Cemetery (VLM) - Arlington, Virginia
BG Fellers is featured in the 2013 movie, Emperor, starring Mathew Fox (as BG Feller) and Tommy Lee Jones (as GEN MacArthur).
Feller was instrumental in helping MacArthur decide to exonerate Japanese Emperor Hiroito of any and all war crimes; thus allowing Hiroito to remain Emperor after WW2.
WWII - Africa Theater of Operations/Egypt-Libya Campaign (1942-43)
From Month/Year
June / 1942
To Month/Year
February / 1943
Description (Egypt-Libya Campaign 11 June 1942 to 12 February 1943) When the United States entered World War II in December 1941, the British had been fighting German and Italian armies in the Western Desert of Egypt and Libya for over a year. In countering an Italian offensive in 1940, the British had at first enjoyed great success. In 1941, however, when German forces entered the theater in support of their Italian ally, the British suffered severe reversals, eventually losing nearly all their hard-won gains in North Africa.
Even though the United States had not yet entered the war as an active combatant, by the time General Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, commander of the German Army’s Afrika Korps, began his offensive against the British Eighth Army in Libya in March 1941, the American and British air chiefs were already discussing American support for the British Eighth Army. Rommel’s rapid and unexpected success in the Libyan desert forced British and American staff officers
in London to accelerate their planning. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his advisers also agreed that the British might need American support in the Middle East. Overall theater responsibility would continue to be British, but the President recognized that a British collapse in Egypt would have far-reaching implications and approved contingency measures to prepare for American support to the theater at a future date.
