I enlisted in Oregon and was in the ASTP at the University of Nevada in Reno prior to joining the 11 th Armored at Camp Cooke. I was in Company B, 55 th Armored Infantry Battalion, 11 th Armored Division from March 1944 through January 1945 when I was injured and sent to a hospital in England and then rejoined them in Aigen, Austria in May after recovering.
In August I was shipped back to the States, presumably to join a new unit preparing for Japan. I was a buddy with Diedrich, knew Fry, Duede, Kurtz, Thweatt,and others.