Branch of Service
U.S. Army
Hometown
Cincinnati, Ohio
Honored By
A Grateful American
HE SERVED FROM 1941 TO 1946, AS CAPTAIN IN THE U.S. ARMY CORPS AND WAS PART OF THE D-DAY INVASION FORCES WHICH OVERTOOK NORMANDY, FRANCE. HE WAS DEFENSE COUNCIL IN THE FIRST COURT MARSHALLINGS OF U.S. SOLDIERS ON FOREIGN SOIL. HE WAS LATER STATIONED IN BELGIUM, WHERE HE WAS IN CHARGE OF 1,000 PRISONERS OF WAR. WELL LIKED BY HIS GERMAN PRISONERS, HE HAD THEM BUILD AN OFFICERS CLUB, AND UTILIZING HIS PRISONERS OTHER TALENTS, HE CREATED AN ORCHESTRA APPROVED BY GENERAL DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER.