Branch of Service
U.S. Navy
Hometown
Skiatook, Oklahoma
Honored By
Friends of American Heroes
SERVED ON THE USS LEUTZE DD-481. PARTICIPATED IN THE INVASIONS OF PALAU, THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, THE BATTLE OF LEYTE GULF, IWO JIMA AND OKINAWA. AWARDED THE PURPLE HEART AFTER BEING WOUNDED WHEN THE DESTROYER HE WAS ON, THE USS LEUTZE, WAS HIT BY A KAMIKAZE ON APRIL 6, 1945 IN THE WATERS OFF OKINAWA.