Branch of Service
U.S. Navy
Hometown
Greensboro, North Carolina
Honored By
Pearl Thomas
He was recruited by the U.S. Navy to be in the first all-minority Navy band, Unit One (B-1), where he played the French horn. He served a combined three and half years at the Chapel Hill Pre-Flight School and on the naval base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. He was discharged in 1945.