Branch of Service
U.S. Army Air Force
Hometown
Galloway, New Jersey
Honored By
A Grateful American
SERVED AS A CAPTAIN AND PILOT FLYING MANY COMBAT MISSIONS IN A B-24 BOMBER. ON HIS LAST MISSION, HIS PLANE WAS SHOT DOWN OVER AUSTRIA AND HE WAS CAPTURED BY GERMAN FORCES SPENDING 18 MONTHS AS A PRISONER OF WAR BEFORE BEING LIBERATED BY THE RUSSIAN ARMY IN 1945.