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Photographer: Sandra Hughes Tidwell
Taken: July 31, 2023
Caption:
WW II Memorial Victory Medal | Additional Description: Ruptured Duck December 7, 1941, Sept 2, 1945
464 Medals of Honor Awarded,
16 Million Served, 407,000 Casualties, 73516 MIA,
Erected May 25, 2015, to Honor all WWII Veterans
Yesterday, December 7, 1941, A date which will live in Infany....President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Pacific Theatre
Pearl Harbor, Guam, Wake Island, Bataan, Corregidor, Battle of Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal Campaign, Tarawa, Bougainville, Cape Gloucester, Saipan, Titian, Philippine Sea, Noemfoor, Peleliu, Morotai, Leyte, Samar, Luzon, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Balikpapan,
European Theatre
Casablanca, Oran, Safi, Fedala, Port Lyautey, Kasserine Pass, El Guettar, Sicily, Salerno,, Monte Casino,
Anzio, Normandy, Brest, Metz, Operation Market Garden, Hurtgen Forest, Lorraine, Aachen, Battle of the Bulge, Florence, Alsace, Ruhr Pocket, Remagen, Bolonga
Submitted: October 19, 2023, by Sandra Hughes Tidwell of Killen, Alabama, USA.
Database Locator Identification Number: p755495
File Size: 6.900 Megabytes
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