Here is a 2013 article on him titled “The original Navy SEAL”
Local veteran regales with fascinating wartime tales that inspired 1951 film
Here is a quote from him “I know I’m considered a hero, and I don’t feel like it, but most heroes don’t,” he said during a recorded video interview nine years ago for the Library of Congress. “They just say I am.”
My friend owns this paper and he did not print the original article, which was done before he purchased MH Times...