Branch of Service
U.S. Army
Hometown
California
Honored By
Gaspar C. Dowling
Relationship
Platoon Leader & Comrade-in-Arms
SERGEANT (PHILIPPINE SCOUT), WITH COLONEL JOHN P. HORAN'S 43D INFANTRY, PHILIPPINE SCOUTS, U.S. ARMY IN WWII UNDER GENERAL MACARTHUR'S U.S. ARMY FORCES, FAR EAST. 1941-1946, PARTICIPATED IN THE JAPANESE INVASION AND OCCUPATION AND PHILIPPINE LIBERATION. 1945-1945, PLATOON LEADER, D COMPANY, 11TH INFANTRY, U.S. ARMY FORCES IN THE PHILIPPINES, NORTHERN LUZON IN COLONEL RUSSELL W. VOLCKMANN'S 70,000-MAN GUERRILLA ARMY ATTACHED TO GENERAL WALTER KRUEGER'S 6TH ARMY DURING LUZON GROUND CAMPAIGN, PACIFIC THEATER OF OPERATIONS, 1944-1945.