Arthur, Patrick James, SFC

Fallen

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Service Details

Last Rank
Sergeant First Class

Last Service Branch
Infantry

Last Primary MOS
1745-Rifle Platoon or Squad Leader

Last MOS Group
Infantry (Enlisted)

Primary Unit
1950-1951, 1745, 2nd Infantry Division

Service Years
1942 - 1951

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Personal Details

Home State

Nebraska

Year of Birth
1914

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Casualty Info

Home Town Broken Bow	Last Address Broken Bow

Casualty Date Jul 31, 1951
Cause Hostile, Died while Captured	Reason Intentional Homicide
Location Korea, North	Conflict Korean War
Location of Interment Arlington National Cemetery - Arlington, Virginia	Wall/Plot Coordinates Plot: Section 60, Site 8983

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	1951, Korean War Fallen

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WWII - Asiatic-Pacific Theater/Guadalcanal Campaign (1942-43)
Start Year 1942	End Year 1943
Description (Guadalcanal Campaign 7 August 1942 to 21 February 1943) On 7 August 1942 the first stage of the offensive began with landings by a Marine division on Guadalcanal and nearby islands. The Japanese reacted vigorously. They inflicted a serious defeat on Ghormley's naval forces in the Battle of Savo Island (8 August 1942), landed large numbers of reinforcements on Guadalcanal, and ultimately lost strong ground, air and naval forces in a desperate effort to hold Guadalcanal. Six major naval engagements were fought off the island. Air battles raged almost daily until the end of October 1942. On shore the issue was in doubt for almost three months. Before the island was finally secured in February 1943, the United States had committed two Marine divisions, two Army divisions, and an additional Army regiment to the fight. Late in February 1943 an Army division was unopposed in taking the Russell Islands, 35 miles northwest of Guadalcanal. The Allies thus firmly established themselves in the Solomons.