Branch of Service
U.S. Navy
Hometown
Fairborn, Ohio
SERVED FROM OCTOBER 1942 UNTIL DECEMBER 1945. HE SERVED AS AN AVIATION MACHINIST'S MATE 2ND CLASS ABOARD THE USS NATOMA BAY CVE-62, CARRIER AIRCRAFT. HE WAS AWARDED THE ASIATIC-PACIFIC THEATRE MEDAL WITH 8 STARS, PHILIPPINE LIBERATION MEDAL WITH 2 STARS AND THE AMERICAN THEATRE MEDAL. THE USS NATOMA WAS HIT BY A JAPANESE KAMIKAZE PLANE ON JUNE 7, 1945.