Rank: Technician Fifth Grade
Unit: 2d Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron, 2d Cavalry Group (Mecz)
Awards: Purple Heart Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, Army Good Conduct Medal, American Campaign Medal, Europe / African / Middle East Campaign Medal, World War II Victory Medal, Belgian Croix de guerre Medal
Enlisted: 8 December 1942 in Butte, Montana
Date of birth: 1918
Hometown: Whitehall, Montana
Occupation prior to enlistment: Farm hands, general farms
High School: 4 years of high school
Married: Single, without dependents
Campaign: WWII
Died: 11 January 1945
Age at death: 27
Cause of death: Killed in action
Location of fatality: Berg Flaxweiler, Luxembourg
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