Lieutenant Leroy Fadem recently revisited sites in the Pacific where he saw action in the Navy during the tumultuous years of the War in the Pacific over 70 years ago. This is a journal of that recent trip as kept by his son,Steven Fadem, who accompanied Lt. Fadem on that journey of rediscovery. The Landing Beaches, and Purple Heart Ridge and the Suicide Cliffs It is now the spring of 1944 and the Navy pushed the Japanese out of current Guinea and safely away from the southern supply lines. With the Solomon and Gilbert Islands battles behind it,the Navy... Read the rest of this entry ยป
Source: navalhistory.org