Branch of Service
U.S. Navy
Hometown
Palestine, Texas
Honored By
Charles W. Nichols
Relationship
Son
VPB Patrol Bomb Squadron, Unit 23, of the 14th Air Wing, known as 'The Flying Black Cats'. He was ordnanceman and bombardier on a PBY-A (amphibious) with 87 documented combat missions and 1200 flight hours in the South Pacific Theater of Operations, U.S. Navy Pacific WWII, tag 872-71-82.