Gender

Male

Birth date

1916-05-19

Place of birth

CA, USA

Inducted

1941-02-25, San Bernardino CA

Service branch

Army

Service type

War

Unit type

Combat/sup

Units served

MISLS Sec 15 (Graduated Savage, Dec. 1942) 41st Infantry Division, Saipan 27th Infantry Division, 2nd Battalion, 165 Infantry Regiment, Makin Is.

Military specialty

Military Intelligence

Stationed

USA: Camp Savage, MN Other Countries: Saipan Island; Makin Island; Okinawa, Japan; Japan

Unit responsibility

Military intelligence.

Personal responsibility

Interrogation Interpretation

Awards, medals, citations (individual or unit)

Bronze Star Silver Star - According to his July 1944 Silver Star commendation, he "led a party of our troops from a cove in which six Japanese civilians had been taken into custody." He rescued the civilians from a ledge inside a cave where they had been trapped and swam across water "with strong undertow due to a backwash of waves which smashed against its entrance from the ocean." He left the cave briefly to open fire on Japanese soldiers, killing three, "providing his party with screening fire until it could emerge therefrom."

Additional information

Residence: Gridley, CA. Interned at Tule Lake Segregation Center.