Pharmacist’s Mate Third Class, United States Naval Reserve Service# 6543922
USS LISCOME BAY (CVE-56)
Casablanca-class escort carrier, commissioned 7 August 1943
Date of Enlistment: February 17, 1942 Home or Place of Enlistment: Priest River, Idaho Date of Loss: November 24, 1943
Missing in Action while conducting combat operations against Imperial Japanese Forces when the ship was torpedoed and sunk by Japanese submarine I-175 off Makin Island in the Gilbert Islands group.