Branch of Service
U.S. Navy
Hometown
Riverside, California
Honored By
Survivors of the USS Block Island CVE-21
SERVED AS A VC 55 PILOT. LOST HIS LIFE AND AIRCRAFT FOLLOWING THE SINKING OF THE USS BLOCK ISLAND (CVE-21), BY A GERMAN SUBMARINE (U-549) ON THE NIGHT OF MAY 29, 1944 IN THE ATLANTIC OCEAN.