Hypothetical Questions for John Baldwin

1. What prompted you to join the Navy at the age 16?
   1. Did your parents know you were joining?
      1. If so, did you have a permission document signed by them?
   2. Did your brother Roscoe influence your Navy enlistment decision?
   3. Did the recruiting officers in Ashland, KY and Cincinnati, OH give you any hassles about enlisting – in terms of your age as a minor in 1925?
   4. Other than make up a bogus birthdate, did you do anything to else to disguise your actual age?
2. What was your favourite ship to serve on and why?
3. Who was your favourite commanding officer and why?
4. What was your favourite Port of Call and why?
5. What type of disease/injury did you incur in the summer of 1927?
   1. What were the circumstances related to contracting/incurring the disease/injury.
   2. Was it life threatening?
   3. Was this disease/injury related to your later diagnosis of Nephritis?
6. Why did you go AWOL in the fall of 1928?
   1. Did you go home to Kitts Hill?
   2. Did your parents and/or Roscoe talk you into surrendering and accept your punishment?
7. Where and when and why did you obtain your mandolin?
   1. Did a shipmate teach you to play?
   2. Were you a good enough player to entertain your shipmates?
8. Did you know that Lt Gherini on the USS Catalpa in 1942 had recommended you for promotion to Ensign?
9. How did you actually learn about and then meet Dorothy?
10. It looked to me like the Navy treated you with respect and consideration regarding your 1943 forced retirement. Was that your opinion too?
11. Why did you move to Kitts Hill immediately after your Nov. 1943 discharge from the Navy?
    1. Why did you then move to Kansas City?
12. Did you maintain communication with any of your shipmates? If so, who and why?