Branch of Service
U.S. Army Air Force
Hometown
Melrose, Massachusetts
Honored By
Nye Murray Nicholson & Susan Murray Payne
Relationship
Children
SERVED AS A B-17 BOMBER PILOT FLYING OVER AFRICAN AND EUROPEAN THEATERS. WAS AWARDED THE DISTINGUISHED FLYING CROSS. AT THE END OF THE WAR, HE REMAINED AND FLEW THE GERMAN AIR LIFT INTO BERLIN. HE ULTIMATELY ACHIEVED THE RANK OF LIEUTENANT COLONEL. DURING THE WAR, RANK WAS A CAPTAIN.