Branch of Service
U.S. Navy
Hometown
Orleans, Indiana
Honored By
Grateful American
ENLISTED ON 20 DECEMBER 1943. DISCHARGED 4 NOVEMBER 1945. SERVED ON THE USS LCS(L)(3) 55 LANDING CRAFT SUPPORT, FLOTILLA THREE, GROUP SEVEN, IN THE ASIATIC-PACIFIC THEATER OF OPERATIONS ASSAULT OF IWO JIMA AND OKINAWA. EARNED TWO BATTLE STARS. RATING OF SEAMAN FIRST CLASS.