Branch of Service
U.S. Army Air Force
Hometown
Plainfield, Illinois
Honored By
Tom Foran
Relationship
Son
B-24J Bomber Pilot, 15th Air Force, 485th Bomb Group, 430th Bomb Squadron, Stationed Venosa, Italy, September 8, 1944 through the end of the war. Flew missions throughout German occupied Europe including northern Italy, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Budapest, Czechoslovakia. Crash landed 'Big Alice from Dallas' on October 12, 1944 after landing gear and hydraulics shot out after bomb runs on an Ammunition Depot in Bologna, Italy.