BRANCH OF SERVICE
U.S. Army

RANK
Private First Class (prior to 1968)

HOMETOWN
West Baden, IN

HONORED BY
Grateful American

Enlisted on 9 January 1942 at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana. Served with the 106th Cavalry Recon. Squadron US 7th Army XV Corps. in the European Theater. Arrived in Glasgow, Scotland on 9 March 1944.Arrived in France on 29 June 1944. First combat on 2 July 1944. Campaigns were Normandy ,Northern France, Eastern France, Ardennes, Rhineland and Austria. Killed on 12 August 1945. Buried at Lorraine American Cemetery St-Avoid, France.