Branch of Service
U.S. Army
Hometown
St. Cloud, Florida
Honored By
Jean Phelps
Relationship
Wife
SERVED FROM JULY 1943 TO OCTOBER 1945. ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUN CREWMAN, 2601. INFANTRY, EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS. WOUNDED IN BATTLE OF THE BULGE. AFTER RECOVERING AND RETURNING TO DUTY, MISSING IN ACTION AND FOUND TO BE A PRISONER OF WAR, AT STALAG IX, B ORB, GERMANY. RELEASED, APRIL 1945. RECEIVED PURPLE HEART, COMBAT INFANTRYMAN BADGE, PRISONER OF WAR MEDAL, TWO BRONZE STARS, GOOD CONDUCT MEDAL AND EUROPEAN THEATER MEDAL.