Rank: First Lieutenant
Unit: C Co, 776th Amphibious Tank Battalion
Awards: Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, American Campaign Medal, World War II Victory Medal
Date of birth: 11 December 1911
Hometown: Savannah, Missouri
Campaign: WWII
Died: 21 January 1945
Age at death: 33
Location of fatality: Leyte, Leyte Province, Eastern Visayas, Philippines
Place of interment: Oakwood Cemetery in Parsons, Kansas
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Note: He stood 6’1” and weighed 190 pounds with blue eyes, blonde hair, and light complexion.
His signature from his draft card.