Served aboard USS Abner Read. Silver Star citation notes "During and subsequent to the time that the destroyed in which he was serving was attacked by a suicidal Japanese diver bomber on 1 November 1944, he first manned a machine gun squarely in the path of the diving plane and directed a continuous fire into the plane until it crashed within a few feet of him. Then, having been blown into the water and although painfully injured, he helped a severely wounded shipmate to safety and was last seen returning to the sinking ship to give aid to another man who was unable to swim." Awarded Silver Star and Purple Heart.