Branch of Service
U.S. Army Air Force
Hometown
Salt Lake, Utah
Honored By
Sam E. Pennartz
He flew combat sorties in a P-51 Mustang while assigned to 335th Fighter Squadron, 4th Fighter Group, 8th Air Force, U.S. Army Air Forces, European Theatre of Operations. On 9 April 1945, while strafing a dispersal area containing German aircraft, his aircraft was struck by flak in left wing tank and crashed southeast of Munich, Germany.