Branch of Service
U.S. Army Air Force
Hometown
Lubec, Maine
Honored By
Bernard M. Ross
ATTACHED TO THE 448TH BOMBER GROUP STATIONED IN ENGLAND. ON HIS 13TH MISSION HIS PLANE WAS HIT AND EXPLODED, HE AND THE PILOT WERE THE ONLY SURVIVORS. FOUND BY THE FRENCH UNDERGROUND, BUT THE GERMANS CAPTURED HIM BEFORE REACHING A SAFE HOUSE. SENT TO STALAG LUFT III, THEN ON A BOXCAR TO NUREMBERG AND THEN FREED BY PATTON'S 3RD ARMY.