WO Martin Paul Pike US Navy WWII

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

Kathleen Lowe

With out her help supplying the information and images
I would not have been able to create this Memorial.
Thank you my dear.

I was sorry to hear of Paul's death.
Paul was a wonderful friend and shipmate.
I am very happy that Kathleen got in touch with me
so that we can give him the proper
honors that he so richly deserved.

This completion date of the Memorial happens to be
my 60th enlistment anniversary into the US Navy.

Paul D. Henriott, CWO, USA, Retired
Web Master of the USS Oakland website

A MEMORIAL TO
MARTIN PAUL PIKE
Warrant Officer and PhMC, US Navy, WWII

I created this Memorial for his lovely widow,
Mary Ellen Pike,
their children, and all of the Pike relatives.

A MEMORIAL TO
WARRANT OFFICER MARTIN PAUL PIKE
AND PhMC, US NAVY, WWII
PLANK OWNER OF USS OAKLAND

MARTIN PAUL PIKE PhMC, USN, WWII
July 24, 1919 + Dec.4, 1998

Paul was born July 24, 1919 in Hannibal Missouri. He grew up in St. Louis. He joined the Navy July, 1938, hoping to use his service as a steppingstone to a medical career. He was trained at
the Naval Hospital Corp School in San Diego as a medical corpman and served in Brooklyn at
the Naval Hospital, Guantanimo Bay, Cuba, Northampton, Mass., aboard the USS Oakland as a member of the original crew and in Corpus Chirsti Texas. He received his commission as a Warrant Officer on Nov. 15, 1944 and was separated from the Navy June 7, 1946. At the end
of the war they returned to Southern California (my Mother was born and raised in Los Angeles). Dad started working for the Upjohn Company in 1948 and retired from there in 1977. He died Dec.4, 1998. She is alive and well, living in California.