Won the following decorations: Bronze Star, Purple Heart (posthumous),
Presidential Unit Citation with one star (for Iwo Jima), American
Defense Service Medal with base clasp (for his service in Cuba before
the war), American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with
four stars (for Pavuvu, Bougainville, Consolidation of the Northern
Solomons, and Iwo Jima), and the World War II Victory Medal.