Branch of Service
U.S. Marine Corps
Hometown
Dallas, Texas
Honored By
Danny Jones
Served as a 1st Lieutenant and as a Leader of a Combat Engineer Platoon of the Fifth Engineer Battalion, Fifth Marine Division, attached to Company H, Third Battalion, Twenty-sixth Marines, in action against enemy Japanese forces on Iwo Jima, Volcano Islands, during 1945. Awarded the silver star medal for gallantry in action.