Gordon Pratt: Interview

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Date
2010-08-05
Main contributor
Pratt, Gordon
Summary
Dr. Gordon Pratt, U.S. Navy, WW II (Interviewed Aug. 5, 2010) Not every World War II Veteran served overseas as they had jobs or were being trained for essential jobs stateside. Such was the case for Dr. Gordon Pratt, who joined the Navy in 1943 and was put in the V-12 program. It was a College Training Program that sent future commissioned Officers to colleges and Universities to complete their training and to help the war effort as a result of their education. Between 1943 and 1946, more than 125,000 men were enrolled in V-12. They included such servicemen as Football Coach George Allen, Sen. Howard Baker, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, Johnny Carson, and Jack Lemmon.... and a dental student named Gordon Pratt from Dallas. After the war, he served as the dentist for nearly two years on board the USS President Adams, a World War II Transport Ship. And then later at the Corpus Christi Naval Air Station. Dr. Pratt practiced for 40 years as a dentist in Bryan until he retired in 1997 and one of his five children, Gordon Pratt, Jr., has been a dentist here for nearly 25 years.
Contributors
KAMU-TV (Television station : College Station, Tex.); Turbiville, Tom
Genres
MovingImage; interview; Oral histories
Subjects
Pratt, Gordon; Veterans--United States--Interviews; United States. Navy; United States. Navy; World War, 1939-1945
Collection
Veterans of the Valley
Unit
Collections
Language
English
Terms of Use
In copyright-educational use permitted; For more information, see http://rightsstatementsorg/vocab/InC-EDU/10/
Notes
Items in this collection were donated to Cushing Memorial Library and Archives in 2017 by Tom Turbiville

Creation/Production Credits

From "Veterans of the Valley," a television series created by host Tom Turbiville and produced at KAMU-TV’s studio on the Texas A&M University, College Station campus

Local Note

reformatted digital
Other Identifier
Catalog Key: 03-VOTV-Pratt_Gordon-video

Access Restrictions

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