Rank: Private First Class
Unit: 42d Cavalry Recon Squadron, 2d Cavalry Group (Mecz)
Awards: Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart Medal, American Campaign Medal, Europe / African / Middle East Campaign Medal, World War II Victory Medal
Date of birth: 18 August 1923
Hometown: Northfield, Illinois
Campaign: WWII
Died: 11 November 1944
Age at death: 21
Cause of death: Killed in action
Location of fatality: Moncourt, France
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Place of interment: Tablets of the Missing, Lorraine American Cemetery in St Avold, France
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Note: He stood omplexion.
His signature from his draft card.