As I continue to scan the Ohde collection, I ran into a common picture taken of young boys in sailor suits.
We are fortunate to still have the little sailor suit my dad wore when he was around 3 years old.
So I decided to search my database for similar pictures and comparisons for some of the little boys who later joined the service.

I am looking for these types of kid pictures in uniforms to use with the military stories in the Manning Veterans' book for those who later became Veterans.
Down below are some examples...


William F. Ohde


Amos Kusel
Assuming he is around 3 this would make this picture 97 years old in 2020.

Ida Kusel holding Melvin, with Amos in his sailor suit.

Amos Kusel with his cousin Lorraine (Rothfolk) Gruhn


Amos Kusel's uniform


Dale Bingham

Dale & Jay Bingham


Max & Heinz Detlefsen

Heinz "Cotton" Detlefsen KIA during mission over Germany WWII

Max Detlefsen WWII


Waldo (5), John (8) Hoffmann 1917

John Hoffmann WWII killed in airplane accident between India & China.


William Ramsey WWII


Robert Campbell WWI


LaVerne Schroeder WWII


Harold "Porky" Moeller WWII


Robert, Joe, Donald Horbach WWII


Ray Dentlinger


Merlin Ramsey


Don Mohr WWII


Merle Borkowski
My third cousin - his grandparents were Henry & Rosa (Kusel) Friedrichsen. Dave Kusel


Alvin Jansen (left) WWII


Unknown from the Joseph Stein collection - WWII


Clarence "Bud" Schurer - WWII


Donald Stangl - WWII


Karl Schultz - WWII


Clarence "CO" Lamp - WWII


Russell Frank


Wilken Karstens - German Navy

By showing these various Navy Veterans, I hope it will encourage more Manning Veterans to contact me so we can get your pictures and story added to the Manning Veterans' history book...

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