Branch of Service
U.S. Navy
Hometown
Mobile, Alabama
Honored By
Family
PROUDLY SERVED AS AN AVIATOR FROM 1941 TO 1946. FLIGHT INSTRUCTOR WHEN STATIONED IN AMERICA. STATIONED IN AUSTRALIA, NEW GUINEA, THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC AS AN AIR TRANSPORT COMMANDER. CONTINUED HIS MILITARY CAREER WITH THE U.S. NAVAL RESERVES. AT RETIREMENT, HIS RANK WAS LIEUTENANT COMMANDER.