Paul F. Henneman was born 3 Sep 1920 in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, the son of Raymond R. and Elsie Noltimier Henneman. He served in the U.S. Navy and Marine Air Corps from October 1942 to February 1946. Paul enlisted in the Navy V-5 flight program in December of 1941 in Winona, Minnesota. He had his pre-flight in Iowa City, Iowa; E.Base in Minneapolis, Minnesota; and received his commission as a 2nd Lt. in the U.S. Marine Air Corps in Corpus Christi, Texas in September 1943. He received orders to Pensacola, Florida as an Instructor in the SNJ and PBY; was sent to Atlanta, Georgia for Instrument Training and then returned to Pensacola as a Flight Instructor again. From there he was ordered to El Centro, California and in August of 1944, he went overseas by APA Troop Ship to Zamboango in the Philippine Islands; to the Soloman Islands and then to Tsingtao, China on occupational duty; returning to the United States in January of 1946. He was honorably discharged from the USMC in February 1946.
Paul remembers that when their Troop Ship docked in Zamboango, the native blacks stared at
them in disbelief. They were the first "whites" they had ever seen.
In the Solomon Islands they were always "on alert" for Japanese soldiers who were still hiding out
from the American Military.
In China Paul always carried a gun and slept with one under his pillow because the Chinese
Communists were infiltrating from the North.