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Gordon Smead (1926)

World War II · US Navy

United States of America

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Gordon Smead (1926)Gordon Smead (1926)
Birth, Death, Discharge, Enlistment, Military Service, Other, PeopleUS, Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2010
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Index Record31/05/2013
John C SmeadJohn C Smead
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Memorial8/11/2013

Source URLs

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Events
Description
Japanese
Hepburn
?
[16]
Ryukyu Islands
Okinawa
amphibious assault
Pacific War
World War II
[17]
[18]
island hopping
base for air operations
Operation Downfall
U.S. 10th Army
7th
27th
77th
96th
1st
6th
[19]
[20]
[21]
kamikaze attacks
Allied
[22]
atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Soviet invasion of Manchuria
[23]
[24]
Japan to surrender