Branch of Service
U.S. Marine Corps
Hometown
Wenatchee, Washington
Honored By
Bob and Jan Blincoe, Jim Fisher, Mark and Lorrie Fisher, Jim and Doris Shaeffer
Relationship
Sons and Daughters and their Families
LANDED ON OKINAWA WITH THE FIRST MARINE DIVISION, EASTER MORNING, 1945. STAYED IN OKINAWA UNTIL AFTER THE ATOMIC BOMBS WERE DROPPED. DEPLOYED TO NORTH CHINA AFTER THE JAPANESE SURRENDERED. CAME HOME ON A TROOP SHIP BEFORE CHRISTMAS, 1945.