Branch of Service
U.S. Marine Corps
Hometown
Clifton Ford, West Virginia
Honored By
Pearl Thomas
He was drafted into the U.S. Marine Corps in 1943 and was sent to Parris Island, South Carolina. He became a rifleman. Sent to Guam on a LST. He was wounded there. Returned to combat and fought at the Battle of Okinawa and was wounded again and sent home and discharged on October 1945.