Branch of Service
U.S. Navy
Hometown
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Honored By
Robert S. Cox
ENTERED MILITARY SERVICE IN 1942 AFTER GRADUATING FROM HIGH SCHOOL. SERVED IN THE AMERICAN, EUROPEAN-AFRICAN-MIDDLE EASTERN AND ASIATIC-PACIFIC THEATERS. PARTICIPATED IN LARGE CONVOY OPERATIONS IN THE ENGLISH CHANNEL AND SHIPPED TO ALASKA 13 TIMES DURING THE WAR. AWARDED THE GOOD CONDUCT MEDAL, AMERICAN CAMPAIGN MEDAL, EUROPEAN-AFRICAN-MIDDLE EASTERN CAMPAIGN MEDAL, ASIATIC-PACIFIC CAMPAIGN MEDAL, AND WWII VICTORY MEDAL. HONORABLY DISCHARGED IN AUGUST, 1945 WITH THE RATING OF SIGNALMAN SECOND CLASS AND ISSUED THE WWII HONORABLE DISCHARGE LAPEL PIN.