Branch of Service
U.S. Navy
Hometown
Savannah, Georgia
Honored By
Susie M. Arden & Jack Downs
Relationship
Wife & School Friend
ENTERED NAVAL SERVICE IN 1943. SERVED BOOT CAMP AT PENSACOLA NAVAL AIR STATION. LATER, ASSIGNED TO GUNNERY SCHOOL AT JACKSONVILLE NAVAL AIR STATION. TRANSFERRED TO NAVAL AIR STATION AT HONOLULU. ASSIGNED TO NAVAL AIR SQUADRON 119 IN THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AS FLIGHT ENGINEER ON PBY FLYING BOAT. REASSIGNED TO NAVAL AIR STATION AT MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE FOR TRAINING IN FLIGHT OPERATIONS FOR PB4Y AND THEN TRANSFERRED TO NAVAL STATION IN CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA FOR DISCHARGE IN 1946.