Branch of Service
U.S. Navy
Hometown
Donner's Grove, Illinois
Honored By
Mitchel L. Kotula and Marilyn Witmer Kotula
Relationship
Son-in-Law and Wife
HE GRADUATED FROM THE U.S. MERCHANT MARINE ACADEMY IN 1944, WAS COMMISSIONED IN THE NAVY AND SERVED ON LIBERTY SHIPS IN THE ATLANTIC. FOUR SHIPS WERE TORPEDOED UNDER HIM AND HE LATER WAS TREATED IN SUN VALLEY, IDAHO FOR INJURIES.