OH 1702
For the Tarrant County War Veterans Project. World War II veteran. Childhood and education in rural Bethlehem, Arkansas; farm life in the Great Depression; 1939 high school graduation; enrollment in Civilian Conservation Corps and work at camps in Utah; work as a truck driver for local lumber and oil companies; marriage to Dorothy Mae Thompson; enlistment in U.S. Army; basic training and advanced training as a mechanic; assignment to 536th Amphibious Tractor Battalion, attached to 7th Infantry Division; October 1944 landing in invasion of the Philippines; Gen.