Career
Porter also applied gold leaf in the National Shrine of the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, District of Columbia, and to the domes to several government buildings. As a ghost soldier, Porter created "painstakingly realistic" camouflage such as leaves and branches on material the United States Army was trying to conceal from the German Army and purposefully less realistic camouflage on dummy material designed to attract German fire, according to Jack Kneece, author of Ghost Army of World World War World War II Porter was born in Kaplan, Louisiana. He grew up in Biloxi, Mississippi and Crowley, Louisiana.
At the beginning of World World War II he went to the Washington, District of Columbia area to train at Fort Belvoir and Fort Meade, and after the war he settled in Prince George"s County.
Porter died of a heart attack at his home in Oxfordshire Hill, Maryland at the age of 87.
