Person:Donald Ritter (6)

Don was hurt in the Navy and finished out his life in constant pain.

1. ↑ Donald Claude Ritter, Jr, Compiler: Don Ritter. Don Ritter's Genealogy Home Page, Location: Ann Arbor, MI, Url:http:/www-personal.umich.edu/~ritterd/index.html. (Dec 2004; website last udated Jan 1998).
2. ↑ Donald Claude Ritter, Jr, Compiler: Don Ritter. Don Ritter's Genealogy Home Page, Location: Ann Arbor, MI, Url:http:/www-personal.umich.edu/~ritterd/index.html. (Dec 2004; website last udated Jan 1998).
3. ↑ Donald Claude Ritter, Jr, Compiler: Don Ritter. Don Ritter's Genealogy Home Page, Location: Ann Arbor, MI, Url:http:/www-personal.umich.edu/~ritterd/index.html. (Dec 2004; website last udated Jan 1998).
4. ↑ Donald Claude Ritter, Jr, Compiler: Don Ritter. Don Ritter's Genealogy Home Page, Location: Ann Arbor, MI, Url:http:/www-personal.umich.edu/~ritterd/index.html. (Dec 2004; website last udated Jan 1998).
5.   John Urbaniak. Ritter/Krause family information, Recipient: Kristina Kuhn Krumm,Address: near Roseburg, Oregon, Author E-mail: urbaniak at mcsi.net. (May 2006).
6. ↑ "enlisted in the United States Navy as an apprentice seaman. He attendedrecruit training at the U. S. Naval Training Center, Great Lakes,Illinois. After training, he was assigned to the Norfolk Naval Hospitalat Portsmouth, Virginia for medical training. Following medicaltraining, he was assigned to the U.S.S. Bellatrix, an attack vessel, asa hospital corpsman. He participated in six major campaign areas duringWorld War II including the invasion of GUadalcanal, the first and secondbattles of the Coral Sea, Casablanca, Sicily and the Aleutian Islands.During the seven years of service he became the youngest ChiefPharmacist Mate in th regular Navy at 19 years of age. He was awarded 7campaign ribbons, 14 battle stars and a Purple Heart. He received acombat incurred disability discharge on January 29, 1946" --from a classproject by his niece Laurie Jeffers c1975.