Branch of Service
U.S. Navy
Hometown
Orleans, Indiana
Honored By
Grateful American
Enlisted on 16 August 1944 at Louisville, Kentucky. 4 January 1945 assigned to the USS John Rogers DD-574, a Fletcher Class Destroyer in Admiral Raymond Spruance's Task Force 58 in the Pacific Theater of Operations. Returned to Charleston, South Carolina on 3 November 1945. Rating of Water Tender Third Class Petty Officer.