His experiences at Fort Shafter with Headquarters Battery, 3rd Battalion, Coast Artillery, during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. Childhood in Chickasha, Oklahoma, and Fort Worth, Texas; enlistment in U.S. Army at age of fourteen; training at Ft. Leonard Wood, Missouri, and Ft. Benning, Georgia; deployment during Cuban Missile Crisis; discharge from Army and enlistment in U.S.