Branch of Service
U.S. Army
Hometown
Ella, Kentucky
Honored By
A Grateful American
He was a Light Mortar Crewman with Company E, 47th Infantry Regiment, 9th Infantry Division seeing combat in the Normandy, Northern France, Rhineland and Central Europe Campaigns. was wounded in France, 16 July 1944 and in Germany, 17 September 1944 and was the recipient of the Purple Heart Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster.