Branch of Service
U.S. Army
Hometown
Haviland, Ohio
Honored By
Ms. Patricia Gusler Daud
Relationship
Daughter
Served in the 411th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Gun Battalion; Camp Davis, North Carolina September 1942 to December 30, 1943. Shipped to England on the Queen Elizabeth I in January 1944, 411th to France, D-Day plus 3. Won the French Croix de Guerre; shot down more German planes than any other Anti-Aircraft battalion in the European Theater of Operations. Cited by General George S. Patton.