Branch of Service
U.S. Navy
Hometown
Nanticoke, Pennsylvania
SERVED FROM FEBRUARY 21, 1944 UNTIL APRIL 20, 1946. SERVED IN THE EUROPEAN AND PACIFIC THEATERS OF OPERATION AND SAW ACTION IN THE INVASION OF NORMANDY AND OF SOUTHERN FRANCE. SERVED ABOARD THE USS ELLYSON DD-454/DMS-19. AWARDED THE ASIATIC-PACIFIC CAMPAIGN MEDAL, EUROPEAN-AFRICAN-MIDDLE EASTERN CAMPAIGN MEDAL AND THE WWII VICTORY MEDAL.