Branch of Service
U.S. Army Air Force
Hometown
Lawn, Pennsylvania
Honored By
A Grateful American
SERVED AS A BOMBER PILOT, HE WAS ON HIS 65TH MISSION WHEN HE WAS SHOT DOWN OVER ST. WENDEL, GERMANY ON NOVEMBER 18, 1944, AND WAS A PRISONER OF WAR IN STALAG LW03. AT THE END OF THE WAR HE WAS ONE OF THE SURVIVORS OF THE FORCED MARCH FROM GERMANY TO AUSTRIA.