Sine, Carson
- Object Type
- Oral history
- Object ID
- 15341
- Date
- August 20 2008
- Description
- Carson Augustin Sine (1921-2011) is a Winnebago American Indian who grew up in Wisconsin. He spent much of his childhood in a sanitarium and both of his parents were sick with tuberculosis. In 1941, he moved to Chicago to live with his brother, where they both worked for Sears-Roebuck. Sine joined the Navy in 1941 after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and worked on the USS Plunkett, which had its home base at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. He was released from the Navy in 1945, after which he worked in the personnel department of the US Army, in Japan (where he met his Japanese wife Marie), Germany, California and Colorado. Sine eventually left the Army to work for the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Littleton, Colorado. During his phone interview, Carson Augustin Sine (1921-2011 ) discusses growing up in Wisconsin and how tuberculosis affected his childhood, as it was prevalent in the American Indian community in Wisconsin. Sine relates his experiences in the US Navy and Army, including being an American Indian in the Navy, his ship's stops at the Brooklyn Navy Yard for repairs (where in one instance, he ran into his brother whose ship was also docked at the Navy Yard for repairs), how he met his wife Marie while working in Japan, and his six month stay at the Fitzsimmons General Hospital in Colorado when they thought he had tuberculosis.
- Related Collection
- Brooklyn Navy Yard Oral History Project
- Subject
- Labor and Yard Workers
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