Branch of Service
U.S. Navy
Hometown
Forty Fort, Pennsylvania
SERVED FROM JULY 22, 1943 UNTIL MARCH 8, 1946. SERVED ABOARD THE USS TEXAS BB-35. PARTICIPATED IN THE NORMANDY INVASION AS A GUNNER. AWARDED THE AMERICAN CAMPAIGN MEDAL, ASIATIC-PACIFIC CAMPAIGN MEDAL WITH 2 BRONZE SERVICE STARS, EUROPEAN-AFRICAN-MIDDLE EASTERN CAMPAIGN MEDAL WITH 2 BRONZE SERVICE STARS, WWII VICTORY MEDAL AND THE PHILIPPINE LIBERATION MEDAL.