Knox County KyArchives Photo Document.....Literal Birth Document For Vernon Eugene Martin  September 18, 1916
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Source:             Kentucky Vital Record No. 46755
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Vernon Eugene Martin, born at 3:50PM on September 18, 1916, Gray, Knox County, 
Kentucky.

Father, David Rad Martin, 23, white, a miner.
Mother, Nannie Walters, 17, white, and a housewife.  

Both parents born in Kentucky,and reside near Grays, (aka Gray), Knox County, 
Kentucky.

Attending physician is J.W. Parker, of Gray, Kentucky.

Birth record filed on October 10, 1916 by CB. Donaldson, Registrar, Knox 
County, Kentucky, 

Additional Comments:
David Rad Martin, "Dave" , was the son of John Dalton Martin and Lucy Frances 
Johnson, and was born in Gray, Knox County, Kentucky on December 15, 1893.

Nannette Serena Walters, "Nannie", was the daughter of Parks B. Walters and 
Claredina "Callie" Sewell, and was born in Pittsburg, Laurel County, Kentucky 
on October 12, 1898.

Vernon Eugene Martin perished on January 6, 1985, and is buried at the Area 
42,Lot C,(Latitude = 41.4045, Longitude = -71.9973) at the Ledyard Union 
Cemetery, Colonel Ledyard Highway, Ledyard, Connecticut.   His wives include 
Virginia Ruth Paterson, Mary Louise Hamilton, Louise Sophia Stark, and Lola 
Ann Mann.Vernon was the father of two daughters with Mary Hamilton, and a 
daughter and son with Louise Stark.

He travelled worldwide with the US Navy, beginning July 30, 1935, entering 
from Indianapolis, Indiana, and traing at the Great Lakes Naval Center. He 
became a yeoman, rising to the rank of Chief.  He was tendered a commission 
based on his superior wartime performance during WWII and retired on June 30, 
1956, at Philadelphia, PA. For the next 15 years he lived in Spain, residing 
primarily in Chipiona. 

He was and avid sailor,and traveler, Vernon enjoyed acting, singing, an 
international music.  A natural polyglott, he relished new languages, and 
cultures.  Though he graduated from the Arsenal Technical High School in 
Indianapolis in May of 1948, he earned a commission as an Ensign in the US 
Navy prior to this, Though he assigned as ships company of the  USS California 
on December 7, 1941, he had been assigned shore patrol duty for the day.  He 
witnessed the Japanese Naval Air Attack from begining, to end, and while 
looking at his ship, the USS California, from shore, being destroyed, by 
Japanese bombardment, he fired the  weapons he had available, from shore.  He 
lost hundred of shipmates that day.  He also faught the Battle of Tarawa on 
board the USS Sheridan.  The USS Sheridan was a troop transport ship, and the 
Tarawa Battle was one of the bloodiest of WWII.  Vernon, was a chief Yeoman, 
and after assisting the Marines go ashore manned weapons aboard ship, during 
the invasion.  After the battle, he retrieved the many dead from the Tarawa 
shores, recording the aftermath of the battle, deaths, wounded. After, served, 
in many location, including American Samoa, Italy, California, Washington, DC.
He was fond of the nickname "Mike".    

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