Branch of Service
U.S. Navy
Hometown
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
ATTENDED SERVICE SCHOOL FOR SIGNALMAN. ASSUMED DUTIES OF SIGNALMAN ABOARD LST 553 FROM JULY 1944 TO NOVEMBER 1944. SAW ACTION AT D-DAY INVASION OF PELELIU IN SEPTEMBER 1944 AND AT LEYTE GULF ON D-DAY PLUS 4. TRANSFERRED TO NEW SHIP, USS WAUKESHA AKA-84, UPON RETURN TO THE U.S. LANDED TROOPS AT YOKASUKA, JAPAN IN AUGUST 1945 AT ENTRANCE TO TOKYO BAY.