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Casualty Info
Home Town Toledo, Ohio
Last Address Okinawa, Japan
Casualty Date May 26, 1945
Cause KIA-Killed in Action
Reason Gun, Small Arms Fire
Location Okinawa
Conflict WWII - Asiatic-Pacific Theater/Ryukyus Campaign (1945)/Battle of Okinawa
Location of Interment National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (VA) - Honolulu, Hawaii
Description (Leyte Campaign 17 October 1944 to 1 July 1945) On 17 October 1944, after preparatory bombardment, the invasion of the Philippines got under way with the seizure of islands guarding Leyte Gulf. The landing on Leyte itself on 20 October was strongly contested by Japanese forces on land and at sea. Organized resistance on the island did not end until after Christmas, and mopping up operations continued for a long time. Meanwhile, at the end of October, the neighboring island of Samar was occupied with little difficulty.
