Branch of Service
U.S. Navy
Hometown
Montclair, New Jersey
Honored By
Jeffrey Graham Bell
Relationship
Son
NAVAL AVIATOR. SERVED AS A PBY (CATALINA) AND PBM PILOT. CONDUCTED COMBAT PATROLS IN THE GULF OF MEXICO, THE CARIBBEAN AND ALONG THE EAST COAST. IN 1945 WAS POSTED TO SAN FRANCISCO WHERE HIS SQUADRON WAS PREPARING FOR DEPLOYMENT TO THE WESTERN PACIFIC WHEN THE JAPANESE SURRENDERED.