Branch of Service
U.S. Army Air Force
Hometown
Greensburg, Pennsylvania
Honored By
Nick R. Angelo
Relationship
Self
Army Air Corps, 414th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group. Awarded American Campaign Medal, American Defense Medal, and European-African-Middle Eastern Theater Medal with 3 Silver Service Stars and 1 Bronze Service Star for the Air Offensive Campaigns, Anti-Submarine, American Theatre, Egypt, Libya, Air Offensive Europe, Tunisia, Sicily, Naples-Foggia, Anzio, Rome-Arno, Normandy, Northern France, Southern France, North Apennines, Rhineland, Central Europe, Po Valley; Air Combat. Awarded presidential Citation with Oak Leaf Cluster for bombing aircraft factories; Steyr, Austria and oil fields Ploesti, Romania. Also RECEIVED COMMEMORATIVE MEDAL FROM GREECE, ORDER OF PATRIOTIC WAR MEDAL FROM RUSSIA, JUBILEE LIBERTY MEDAL FROM FRANCE, GOOD CONDUCT MEDAL, AND WWII VICTORY MEDAL.