Soldier Details

Division:

Navy
, 
VF-1

Highest Rank:

Lieutenant

Theater of Operation:

Pacific

Served:

Apr 8, 1942

Honored By:

Kris LeBoutillier

Killed In Action

Biography

Graduated St. Paul's School, attended Yale. Awarded Air Medal with two Gold Stars, the Order of the Purple Heart, Asiatic-Pacific Area Campaign Medal with three Bronze Stars, and World War II Victory Medal. MIA over Rota Island, Marianas on June 6, 1944. Presumptive date of death February 4, 1946. Hellcat pilot who flew off the Yorktown.