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Contact Info
Home Town Ferndale, Pennsylvania
Last Address Pennsylvania
Date of Passing Apr 20, 1949
Location of Interment Arlington National Cemetery (VLM) - Arlington, Virginia
In WWII, he was CO of the 388th Fighter Squadron, deputy CO of the 365th Fighter Group, and was credited with 6 aerial victories, the most in the 365th. In 1948 he resigned his commission to run for political office. He was elected as a US Representative and served in Congress from Jan 3, 1949 until his death in an aircraft accident at Kirtland AFB, NM Apr 20.
WWII - European Theater of Operations/Northern France Campaign (1944)
From Month/Year
July / 1944
To Month/Year
September / 1944
Description (Northern France Campaign 25 July to 14 September 1944) Bombardment along a five-mile stretch of the German line enabled the Allies to break through on 25 July. While some armored forces drove southward into Brittany, others fanned out to the east and, overcoming a desperate counterattack, executed a pincers movement that trapped many Germans in a pocket at Falaise. The enemy fell back on the Siegfried Line, and by mid-September 1944 nearly all of France had been liberated. During these operations in France, while light and medium bombers and fighter-bomber aircraft of Ninth Air Force had been engaged in close support and interdictory operations, Eighth and Fifteenth Air Forces had continued their strategic bombing.
