Branch of Service
U.S. Army
Hometown
Mount Airy, Maryland
Honored By
Mrs. Martha Gilbert
Relationship
Wife
November 1943, 16 weeks basic training at Fort McClelland, Alabama with the US Army, 30th Infantry. May 1944, move to England, one month before D-Day. Omaha Beach Invasion, June 9 and in France until August. Wounded at St Lo, hospitalized in England. Then stationed in Belgium, Army Ordnance until discharged in January 1946.