Guadalcanal (6-months), Pelileu (3-months), Okinawa (5-months), Tsingtao China (4-months)...
He was 1st Division for Guadalcanal & Pelileu...
Then, after injuries recuperation he was sent to help train the brand new 6th Division for the invasion of Okinawa...
When the war ended he ended up going to China with elements of the 6th Division...
From Tsingtao he ended up spending a month in the Chelsea Naval Hospital (where we got to visit him since it was near where we lived)) and then discharged...
I never understood why some nimrod send the first to Pavuvu for R&R. What a hell hole on top of all the abuse they took in combat.
They sent them there twice.
Governments and their leaders have always been stupid and uncaring.
I recall that the newly formed third got to recover in Hawaii... twice.
I had a friend, a Marine pilot, who began his trial at Guadalcanal and ended it at Pelileu. All he said was that Pelileu finished him. He was a grand man.