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Contact Info
Home Town Abilene, Texas
Last Address Goodfellow AFB, San Angelo, Texas
Date of Passing Oct 22, 1951
Location of Interment Elmwood Memorial Park - Abilene, Texas
He enlisted in the Aviation Cadet Program on Feb 3, 1943, graduating and receiving pilot's wings and a commission as 2nd Lieutenant on Dec 5, 1943 at Eagle Pass, Texas. He was sent for further flight training, and then assigned to Westover AAF with the 352nd Fighter Group for combat training.
He was assigned to the 487th Fighter Squadron located at Bodney Field, England in Apr 1944. After check-out training in the P-51, he began flying escort and fighter sweep missions over France and Germany. During his stay with the 487th, he was credited with 5 aerial victories plus 1 enemy aircraft destroyed on the ground. Most of the time, he flew as wingman to the famed ace, Colonel John C. Meyer, Group Commanding Officer who had 24 aerial victories.
After the war, he was assigned to the 3545th Pilot Training Wing at Goodfellow AFB, Texas, as a instructor pilot. He was killed in an AT-6 crash on a training flight on Oct 22, 1951.
WWII - European Theater of Operations/Normandy Campaign (1944)
From Month/Year
June / 1944
To Month/Year
July / 1944
Description Normandy Campaign 6 June to 24 July 1944) Early on D-Day airborne troops landed in France to gain control of strategic areas. Aerial and naval bombardment followed. Then the invasion fleet, covered by an umbrella of aircraft, discharged Eisenhower’s assault forces. Soon the beachhead was secure, but its expansion was a slow and difficult process in the face of strong opposition. It was not until late in July that the Allies were able to break out of Normandy.
