Branch of Service
U.S. Army Air Force
Hometown
Amory, Mississippi
Honored By
Locke H. Pierce
The U.S. Army Air Corps. Enlisted on November 13, 1942. Trained as an Air Force Aircraft Maintenance Engineer. Commissioned, Yale University, May 1944. Served in the Air Depot training group at Air Force Base in Texas. Was on my way to the Pacific Theater of operations when the war ended. Later integrated into the regular Air Force, serving a total of 26 years.