Branch of Service
U.S. Navy
Hometown
Snow Shoe, Pennsylvania
Honored By
John Peterson
SERVED AS A TORPEDOMAN'S MATE THIRD CLASS ON THE USS BLENNY. FOR HIS YEARS OF SERVICE, 1943 THROUGH 1946, HE WAS AWARDED THE ASIATIC-PACIFIC MEDAL WITH ONE STAR, WWII VICTORY MEDAL, AMERICAN AREA MEDAL, PHILIPPINE LIBERATION MEDAL WITH ONE STAR, SUBMARINE COMBAT INSIGNIA WITH THREE STARS, AND THE WWII VICTORY MEDAL.