Branch of Service
U.S. Navy
Hometown
Seattle, Washington
Honored By
Richard E. Manzer
WAS ON USS CURTIS AT PEARL HARBOR DECEMBER 7, 1941. THE CURTIS WAS BOMBED AND HIT BY A CRASHING JAPANESE PLANE; 27 CREW MEMBERS WERE KILLED. SERVED ABOARD USS ST. GEORGE IN 1943 AT TARAWA. AT OKINAWA, SHIP WAS HIT BY KAMIKAZE. SERVED 14 YEARS IN U.S. NAVY.