Branch of Service
U.S. Army
Hometown
Walled Lake, Michigan
Honored By
Dorrine & Timothy Robertson
Relationship
Sister & Nephew
Served in the 3rd Infantry Division, a replacement for a Colmar Pocket casualty. Crossed from England to France, March 1945. Took Utweiler, Zweibrucken, fought through the Siegfried line, took Kaiserslautern. Crossed the Rhine at Worms in an 8-man outboard motorboat under enemy fire at dawn. Fought at Bamberg, Nuremberg and Augsburg, Austria to war's end in May 1945.