Rank/Rate	Boatswain's Mate, First Class
Service Number	238 44 51
Birth Date	December 13, 1914
From	Deferiet, New York
Decorations	Purple Heart, Prisoner of War Medal
Ship	USS Canopus (AS-9)
Date of Death	October 24, 1944
Location	Aboard the Hellship Arisan Maru
Circumstances	Died when Arisan Maru, transporting Allied Prisoners of War from the Philippines to Japan, was sunk by USS Shark (SS-314).
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Photo courtesy of his sister, via Gary B. Wood, Legion Historian, and from the American Legion Post 789 Wall of Honor.  Information courtesy of Paul W. Wittmer.

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