Branch of Service
U.S. Army Air Force
Hometown
Farmington, New York
Honored By
A Grateful American
SERGEANT, B-24 LIBERATOR, 400TH SQUADRON 'BLACK PIRATES', 90TH BOMB GROUP (JOLLY ROGERS), FIFTH AIR FORCE, IN THE PACIFIC THEATER OF OPERATIONS. MEMBER OF WILLIAM MAXWELL CREW. ON JUNE 11, 1944, HIS PLANE CRASHED INTO JUNGLE, SHORT OF THE RUNWAY AT HOLLANDIA. HE SURVIVED BECAUSE HE WAS IN THE WAIST SECTION AND WAS THROWN CLEAR OF THE WRECKAGE.