Oral history interview with Harold Dorn [sound recording], 2003.

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Oral history interview with Harold Dorn [sound recording], 2003.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54777427

Harold J. Dorn, a Madison, Wisconsin native, discusses his World War II service as a hospital corpsman serving at Navy bases in Idaho and California. Dorn talks about growing up in Madison during the Great Depression, being rejected from military service due to a hernia, and undergoing surgery to correct the problem. Drafted in 1943, he touches upon volunteering for the Marines, being assigned to the Navy, boot camp at Great Lakes (Illinois), and hospital corpsman school. Assigned to a Farragut Naval Training Station (Idaho), Dorn comments on work in a rheumatic fever ward, assignment to the prosthesis lab in the Dental Division, and duty as a dental hygienist. He speaks of playing for the Dental Division's baseball team and names some professional baseball players he played with: Fred Hutchinson and Dick Bartell. Dorn states he also played some football on base. He mentions deer hunting for recreation and having liberty in Spokane. Dorn touches upon his 1944 transfer to the Naval base at Shoemaker (California) and his duties as a dental hygienist and later as pharmacists mate processing those headed to the Pacific theater. He addresses doing part-time work off base while on liberty. Dorn tells of the one time he made it home to Wisconsin on leave and recalls German prisoners of war working in the chow line at Shoemaker. After the war, he discusses returning Madison, eventually selling the family grocery store, and opening Dorn Paint and Hardware with his brother. Dorn sketches his brothers' military service and mentions meeting his future wife.

Sound recording : 1 sound cassette (ca. 50 min.) : analog, 1 7/8 ips.Master sound recording : 1 sound cassette (ca. 50 min.) : analog, 1 7/8 ips.Transcript : 19 p.

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Wisconsin Veterans Museum Research Center

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