 1910 - 1967 (56 years)
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| Name |
Ralph Francis Greene |
| Birth |
1 Jun 1910 |
Denver, Colorado, USA  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Education |
2 Years of Civil Engineering |
| Occupation |
Stone Mason, Contractor |
| Religion |
Episcopalian, none known at death |
| Death |
3 May 1967 |
Basalt, Colorado, USA |
| Burial |
4 May 1967 |
Basalt, Colorado, USA |
| Person ID |
I20 |
Greene Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
17 Jun 2017 |
| Father |
Charles Homer Greene, b. 3 May 1883, Topeka, Shawnee, Kansas, USA d. 27 Aug 1931, Denver, Colorado, USA (Age 48 years) |
| Mother |
Estella Gertude Carter, b. 16 Mar 1890, Denver, Colorado, USA d. 2 Mar 1973, Denver, Colorado, USA (Age 82 years) |
| Marriage |
8 Nov 1906 |
Golden, Jefferson, Colorado, USA |
| Family ID |
F11 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Dorothy Elizabeth Allen, b. 2 Mar 1910, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA d. 1990, Boulder, Boulder County, Colorado, USA (Age 79 years) |
| Marriage |
14 May 1932 |
Orlando, Florida, USA |
| Divorce |
19 Dec 1966 |
Boulder County, Colorado, USA |
| Children |
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| Family ID |
F6 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
9 Aug 2016 |
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| Notes |
- Ralph Greene was at Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941! He was working as a draftsman/engineer for Contractors, Pacific Naval Air Bases (Hawaiian Dredging Company, LTD; Raymond Concrete Pile Company; Turner Construction Company; Morrison Knudsen Company, INC; J.H. Pomeroy and Co., INC) in his office that morning, having arrived early to finish up a late report. The office was in the Navy Yard, Kuahua Island, Pearl Harbor, T.H.. He went through the attack, and according to him helped a Marine man a 50 caliber machine gun and shoot down a Zero, which crashed on ?Magazine Island?, next to his office. [Until 1934, Kuahua Island was used for ammunition storage. So Magazine Island was probably local vernacular for Kuahua.] He claimed that the Zero pilot was carrying a student ID from the University of Hawaii. Ralph?s story was verified, including the University of Hawaii ID, in the 1980?s when his son David asked Ralph?s brother-in-law George Allen about it. George and his wife at the time Muriel, were working out of the Honolulu FBI office when the attack on Pearl Harbor occurred. He was a field agent and she was a secretary/office worker. They both were in close contact with Ralph before and just after the attack. Go to the Multimedia Link to Letters and Memorabilia, Ralph Francis Greene, Pearl Harbor, Oahu, July 15 - December 26, 1941. Assembled December 7, 1991 by David L. Greene, for a series of letters, notes and an artifact that provide more detail of this attack and its effect upon him. Contractors, Pacific Naval Air Bases was building airfields throughout the Pacific - Hawaii, Midway, Wake Island and beyond. Ralph was scheduled to move to one of these locations, perhaps Wake early in 1942. Of course, Wake was attacked soon after Pearl Harbor with the Marines, sailors, and civilians on the Island holding out for some days against the Japanese invasion. Many of the civilians were his associates from Contractors. Very soon after this attack, the civilian naval contractor group was replaced by the Sea Bees of WII fame. In fact, it seems, that the Sea Bees grew out of Contractors, Pacific Naval Air Bases.
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