Rank/Rate	Pharmacist's Mate, First Class
Service Number	274 18 62
Birth Date	August 24, 1914
From	Mount Olive, Mississippi
Decorations	Bronze Star, Purple Heart, Prisoner of War Medal
Ship	USS Canopus (AS-9)
Date of Death	December 15, 1944
Location	Aboard the Hellship Oryoku Maru
Circumstances	Died when Oryoku Maru, transporting Allied Prisoners of War from the Philippines to Japan, was sunk by US Navy planes from the USS Hornet
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