For action performed on 7 and 8 August 1944, north of Yigo/Guam, the Mariana Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
Headquarters, U.S. Army Forces-Pacific Ocean Areas, General Orders No. 74 (1944). Posthumously awarded.
Sources
- Myers, M. (editor), Ours to Hold it High – The History of the 77th Infantry Division in World War II, The Battery Press, Nashville, USA, 2002
- Home of Heroes