Enlisted
on 9 December 1941 at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana.
Served with the 93rd Bomb
Group 330th Bomb Squadron as a waist
gunner on B 24 Liberators.Set 8th air Force
record for downing the
first German FW 190 from B-24#41-23667 "Barber Bob". Was
shot
down in B-24 # 41-23983 16 April 1943 on a mission to Bomb U-boat
pens in
Brest, France taken POW and place in POW camp Stalag 17 B
near Kerms, Austria
until 30 May 1945.