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Home Town Tuskegee, Alabama
Last Address Unnknown
Date of Passing Jun 04, 1980
Location of Interment Arlington National Cemetery (VLM) - Arlington, Virginia
Wall/Plot Coordinates Plot: Section 3, Site 3886-B-1
Born at Tuskagee, Alabama, November 14, 1890, he was a student at Alabama Ply Institute in 1911 and graduated from West Point in 1915. He was commissioned a Second Liutenant, Infantry, June 1915, and advanced through the grades to Major General in 1943.
He served in the Mexican Border Campaign, 1916-17, with the American Expeditionary Forces in France in World War I, 1918-19, and in Asia in World War II as Chief of Staff of China, Burma and India Theater of Operations. He received the Distinguished Service Medal for his long service to the nation.
He died in 1980 and was buried in Section 3 of Arlington National Cemetery. His wife, Charlotte Frances Jadwin Hearn (1894-1979), who he married on December 17, 1917, is buried with him.
Description The plan of the Pacific subseries was determined by the geography, strategy, and the military organization of a theater largely oceanic. Two independent, coordinate commands, one in the Southwest Pacific under General of the Army Douglas MacArthur and the other in the Central, South, and North Pacific (Pacific Ocean Areas) under Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, were created early in the war. Except in the South and Southwest Pacific, each conducted its own operations with its own ground, air, and naval forces in widely separated areas. These operations required at first only a relatively small number of troops whose efforts often yielded strategic gains which cannot be measured by the size of the forces involved. Indeed, the nature of the objectivesùsmall islands, coral atolls, and jungle-bound harbors and airstrips, made the employment of large ground forces impossible and highlighted the importance of air and naval operations. Thus, until 1945, the war in the Pacific progressed by a double series of amphibious operations each of which fitted into a strategic pattern developed in Washington.
21 Named Campaigns were recognized in the Asiatic Pacific Theater with Battle Streamers and Asiatic Pacific Campaign Medals.