Branch of Service
U.S. Army Air Force
Hometown
Bay City, Texas
Honored By
Charles Henry Atkinson
With WWII on, he joined the Army Air Forces after graduating from Thomas Jefferson High School in 1943. He enrolled at Ohio State after the war, in 1946, while stationed nearby as a member of the 100th Fighter Squadron, a unit of the 332nd Fighter Group, known as the Alabama-based Tuskegee Airmen.