Branch of Service
U.S. Navy
Hometown
Schenectady, New York
Honored By
Michael J. Lynett
Born in Nuremberg, Germany. He left there at the beginning of 1939, shortly after the 'Night of Broken Glass', and went to live with his uncle in Lyon, France until April 1940, at which time he traveled alone to Genoa, Italy and hence to Schenectady, New York. A graduate of Nott Terrace High School and from there entered the U.S. Army Air Forces where he was stationed in the Pacific theater of war. He was discharged in 1946.