Branch of Service
U.S. Navy
Hometown
Columbia, South Carolina
Honored By
Robert S. Cox
ENTERED MILITARY SERVICE IN 1942. SERVED IN THE ASIATIC-PACIFIC THEATER ABOARD THE AMPHIBIOUS TRANSPORT SHIP USS LOWNDES APA-154 AND THE DESTROYER TENDER USS PRAIRIE AD-15. PARTICIPATED IN THE BATTLES FOR IWO JIMA AND OKINAWA. HONORABLY DISCHARGED IN 1946 AND ISSUED THE HONORABLE SERVICE LAPEL BUTTON.