Branch of Service
U.S. Navy
Hometown
Powell Butte, Oregon
Honored By
Lee Flegel
Relationship
Friend
Enlisted 1942 Portland, Oregon. Boot Camp San Diego. Ordnance, gunnery and bombing training Norman, Oklahoma. Bombing Squadron 140, Naval Air Station Alameda was re-designated Patrol Squadron 123. Ordnanceman and nose gunner in PV-1 Lockheed Venturas later transitioning to PB4Y-2 Consolidated Privateers. Anti-submarine missions from Kaneohe Bay, Espiritu Santo, Guadalcanal, Midway, Johnson Islands, Tinian and Okinawa. Final base Barbers Point before returning to Washington state for discharge.