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Contact Info
Home Town Headland, Alabama
Last Address Dallas, Texas
Date of Passing Feb 02, 2009
Location of Interment Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery (VA) - Dallas, Texas
Wall/Plot Coordinates Section Col B, Row CT1, Site B161
He played on the freshman football team while a student at Alabama Polytechnic Institute, later Auburn University, before his wartime service. After the war, he finished his degree at the University of Alabama. He is probably the only Alabama graduate to have played football at Auburn.
After college, he went on to become a very well-known and respected test pilot. He is honored in the Alabama Aviation Hall of Fame.
WWII - Pacific Theater of Operations//Leyte Campaign (1944-45)
From Month/Year
October / 1944
To Month/Year
July / 1945
Description (Leyte Campaign 17 October 1944 to 1 July 1945) On 17 October 1944, after preparatory bombardment, the invasion of the Philippines got under way with the seizure of islands guarding Leyte Gulf. The landing on Leyte itself on 20 October was strongly contested by Japanese forces on land and at sea. Organized resistance on the island did not end until after Christmas, and mopping up operations continued for a long time. Meanwhile, at the end of October, the neighboring island of Samar was occupied with little difficulty.