Branch of Service
U.S. Navy
Hometown
Statesboro, Georgia
Honored By
Mrs. Evelyn Mabry
Relationship
Sister
Entered service June 1943. Boot training at Great Lakes Naval Training Base; training Quantico, Virginia. Participated in D-Day in France as Navy Medic on LST 7. Returned to the U.S. Received Marine Boot Training at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina; attached to 4th Marine Division. Wounded and then killed at Iwo Jima on February 19, 1945. Earned Bronze Star.