He enlisted in December 1943, qualified for pilot training but there were few vacancies and he became a gunner. A year later he joined the Group at Thurliegh where he flew on 2 missions on the Ray Scheib crew before crew numbers were cut to 9 - with the elimination of the waist gunner- and he wound up in Supply. After duty at a former Luftwaffe airfield he was discharged in May 1946. He afterwards worked for the Northwestern Bell Telephone Co. as a special services engineering supervisor.