Branch of Service
U.S. Army
Hometown
Dorchester, Nebraska
Honored By
Warren R. Miller, M.D.
Relationship
Friend
TRAINED AT FORT MEADE IN MARYLAND AND OTHER CAMPS BEFORE BEING SENT TO SOUTHERN FRANCE WHERE HE WAS CAPTURED BY THE GERMANS WHILE CROSSING THE MOSELLE RIVER IN SEPTEMBER, 1944. WAS DECLARED MISSING IN ACTION, THEN JUST PRIOR TO CHRISTMAS, 1944 WAS DECLARED A PRISONER OF WAR. WAS LIBERATED IN APRIL, 1945, HAVING BEEN STARVED, MISTREATED AND HAVING LOST SOME 80 POUNDS. HE WAS EVENTUALLY HONORABLY DISCHARGED.