Assigned: Battery F, 60th Coast Artillery Regiment (Anti-Aircraft), Coast Artillery Corps, Luzon Island, PI
Captured: 7 May 1942
Died/MIA: 24 Oct 1944 while onboard Japanese Freighter Arisan Maru that was sunk by USN submarine USS Shark II (SS 314). Over 1800 POWs aboard, only nine (9) survived.
He is memorialized on the Tablets of the Missing at Manila American Cemetery, Fort Bonifacio, Manila, Philippines.
Information provided by Allen D. Jackson, USAF (Ret)
- Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Date of birth: 9 November 1919
- Date of death: 24 October 1944
- County: Unicoi
- Hometown: Banner Hill (Erwin)
- Service Branch: Army
- Division/Assignment: 60th Coast Artillery Regiment (Anti-Aircraft), Coast Artillery Corps
- Theater: Pacific
- Conflict: World War II
- Awards: Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster
- Burial/Memorial Location: Manila American Cemetery, Fort Bonifacio, Manila, Philippines
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