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Peck, Ernest Keith, Cpl.
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Contact Info
Home Town Salem
Last Address Salt Lake City, UT
Date of Passing May 24, 2001
Location of Interment Mount Olivet Cemetery - Salt Lake City, Utah
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Additional Information
Last Known Activity:
Corporal Ernest Peck served in the 1397th Engineer Battalion with my grandfather, Felix Cervantes.
"In 1941 he joined the Army and served with the 1397th Engineer Battalion in the Pacific. After four years serving his country in World War II Ernie returned to Salt Lake City and work at Kennecott Copper. He retired in 1978."
-https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/94631820/ernest-keith-peck-
WWII - Asiatic-Pacific Theater
From Month/Year
December / 1941
To Month/Year
September / 1945
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.
