Branch of Service
U.S. Marine Corps
Hometown
Floydada, Texas
Honored By
Danny Jones
Served as a Gunnery Sergeant and as an Assistant Rifle Platoon Leader of Company I, Third Battalion, Twenty-first Marines, Third Marine Division, in action against enemy Japanese forces at Guam, Mariana Islands in August 1944. Awarded the silver star for gallantry in action and the purple heart.