BRANCH OF SERVICE
U.S. Army

RANK
Technician Fifth Grade - WWII

HOMETOWN
French Lick, IN

HONORED BY
Grateful American

Enlisted on 9 January 1942 at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana. Discharged 7 November 1945. Served with the 163rd Field Artillery Battery C 38th Infantry Division. "The Avengers of Bataan". In The Pacific Campaign. Arrived at Oro Bay, New Guinea on board the S.S. Simon Bamburger. Landed on Leyte, Philippines December 1944. Remained in combat for 198 days. Returned to the United States Camp Anza, California 9 November 1945. Campaigns New Guinea and Southern Philippines.