12-09-2018, 11:37 PM
Have you tried NARA.gov or even Ancestry.com and the free military service records? You could at least get a unit...which would enable you to really start to explore Another source would be Newspapers.com, searching on the name to find out if there are articles either about is enlistment or his return home.
I know that my Dad was named in a local paper when he sent his Purple-Heart to his mother.