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- Husband of Christine (Barlar) Redus
- Son-in-law of James Monroe ‘Jim’ Barlar
(Barlar)
- B: Mississippi
– D: Tennessee
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Herndon Dwight ‘Jimmy’ Redus
( 1910 –
1994 )
• WW II - U.S. Army •
Served in South Pacific – Solomon Islands
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The campaign in the Solomons
carried out the first two steps of a three stage campaign planned for Rabaul. The move northwest from Guadalcanal up the Solomon Island chain toward Rabaul was named Operation
Cartwheel, the strategic responsibility of the Army and General Douglas
MacArthur. Naval forces were under the general supervision of Admiral
Chester W. Nimitz, whose vast Pacific Ocean Areas command included the North,
Central, and South Pacific Areas as subtheaters.
After November 1942, the South Pacific Area subtheater
was under Admiral William F. Halsey. Southwest Pacific forces were under
General MacArthur.
Map of the Solomon
Islands showing the Allied advance during
1943 and key air and naval bases.
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