Branch of Service
U.S. Navy
Hometown
Rich Hill, Missouri
Honored By
Pamela Heinlen Lehto
Relationship
Daughter
SERVED AS A SEAMAN IN THE PACIFIC THEATER OF OPERATIONS ABOARD THE USS LEXINGTON CV-2 AT PEARL HARBOR DECEMBER 1941 UNTIL IT WAS TORPEDOED MAY 8, 1942 AND THEN SUNK AT THE BATTLE OF THE CORAL SEA. THEN SERVED ABOARD THE USS BOGUE, UNTIL 1945.