Branch of Service
U.S. Army
Hometown
Seminole, Oklahoma
Honored By
Department of Oklahoma Military Order of the Purple Heart
SERVED FROM 1943 TO 1945 IN THE EUROPEAN-AFRICAN-MIDDLE EASTERN THEATER WITH 146TH ENGINEER COMBAT BATTALION. ASSAULT-LANDED ACROSS OMAHA BEACH ON D-DAY, JUNE 6, 1944, PARTICIPATED IN THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE IN DECEMBER 1944. WOUNDED IN MARCH 1945 IN A BATTLE FOUGHT ON THE BELGIUM/GERMANY BORDER.