Branch of Service
U.S. Navy
Hometown
Cochranville, Pennsylvania
Honored By
Randy Beach
Relationship
Son
SERVED IN DUTCH HARBOR ALASKA, IN 1944 AND 1945. WAS TO HAVE GONE TO SOUTH PACIFIC THEATRE, HAD NOT THE ATOM BOMB BEEN DROPPED ENDING THE WAR. SAW MANY FRIENDS LOST, INCLUDING A TROOP TRANSPORT PLANE WHICH CRASHED AFTER LEAVING DUTCH HARBOR, KILLING ALL ABOARD.