Branch of Service
U.S. Navy
Hometown
Worthington, Minnesota
Honored By
Allen L. Beck
Training at Farragut, Idaho Naval Training Center (NTC), Company 750-44. Placed with 146th Naval Construction Battalion services. Pacific Theatre Occupation - Eniwetok, Marshall Islands, then on to Ulithi in Caroline Islands. Joined Pacific Fleet there and on to invasion of Okinawa. Established largest Naval Supply Base in Pacific on Okinawa. War's end - home on USS Chilton and honorable discharge Naval Separation Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 1946.