Branch of Service
U.S. Army
Hometown
St. Louis, Ohio
Honored By
Pearl Thomas
Served in the Signal Corps. He was sent to serve in the European Theater of Operations, an area of heavy fighting across France, Germany, Belgium, Holland, and England, where he witnessed the first crossing of the Rhine River at Oppenheimer and the Battle of the Bulge. While stationed at Weimar, Germany, in 1945, he was among the first to visit the Buchenwald Concentration Camp.