Branch of Service
U.S. Coast Guard
Hometown
Clinton, Massachusetts
Honored By
Michael Lynett
Enlisted in the Coast Guard before the U.S. entered WWII; he served on the coast guard cutter USS Spencer on weather patrol in the North Atlantic, before applying to radio school, soon after Pearl Harbor. He served as radioman 3rd class on the USS Monomoy, until he was transferred to the USS Vance (DE-387), a destroyer escort which made seven trips across the Atlantic, accompanying convoys to strategic locations in the Mediterranean.