Jean F. Hartman, a captain in the U.S. Army during World War II, was the great-grandson of a Civil War veteran (Alfred Hartman, Fourth Iowa Cavalry, Co. I), and the son of a World War I veteran (John A. Hartman, American Expeditionary Force).
He enlisted in the U.S. Army after the bombing of Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, and entered active duty on July 18, 1942. He attended Infantry Officers Candidates School at Ft. Benning, Georgia. He left the continental U.S. for service in New Guinea on May 22, 1943, and served in battles on the Bismarck Archipelago off of New Guinea and Iwo Jima.
On Iwo Jima, he was assigned to tell Japanese soldiers hidden in caves to surrender before the caves were flooded. During one of these assignments (May 25, 1945), he and another soldier entered a cave and tripped a mine. The mine exploded at shoulder level to Jean Hartman. It killed the soldier he was with and left Jean severely injured. When he was brought down from the mountain, the doctors who first saw him did not believe he would survive.
He was treated at McCormack General Hospital in Pasadena, where pioneering work in plastic surgery was being done on World War II veterans. He was discharged from active duty in March 1947.
He received the following decorations: the American Theater Ribbon, the Asiatic Pacific Theater Ribbon with two Bronze Stars, the World War II Victory Medal, the Combat Infantry Badge and the Purple Heart.
His parents, John A. Hartman and Yvonne Marie Reynaud, met while his father was serving in World War I near Tonnay-Charente, France. Yvonne Reynaud worked in the local post office. When the end of World War I was declared, she was assigned to take the message to the mayor.
Jean Hartman was born in Craig, Colorado, near where his grandmother Florence Hartman had a homestead. His parents moved to San Francisco and then to Denver.
When he went to school, he was teased about the name Jean. His father was named John, which in the language of his French mother was Jean – and the name of generations of men in her family. Many episodes of fighting over whether he had a girl's name left him reading books outside the principal's office. A series of books on rocks and geology left him with a life-long fascination.
With the support of the G.I. (the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944), Jean Hartman enrolled in the Colorado School of Mines. He graduated as an exploration geologist and was hired by Phillips Petroleum Co. He worked for Phillips in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Alexandria, Egypt.
In a seventh grade art class, Jean Hartman met the girl he ultimately married on June 2, 1947, Betty Jean Logan (1923-2003).
He enlisted in the U.S. Army after the bombing of Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, and entered active duty on July 18, 1942. He attended Infantry Officers Candidates School at Ft. Benning, Georgia. He left the continental U.S. for service in New Guinea on May 22, 1943, and served in battles on the Bismarck Archipelago off of New Guinea and Iwo Jima.
On Iwo Jima, he was assigned to tell Japanese soldiers hidden in caves to surrender before the caves were flooded. During one of these assignments (May 25, 1945), he and another soldier entered a cave and tripped a mine. The mine exploded at shoulder level to Jean Hartman. It killed the soldier he was with and left Jean severely injured. When he was brought down from the mountain, the doctors who first saw him did not believe he would survive.
He was treated at McCormack General Hospital in Pasadena, where pioneering work in plastic surgery was being done on World War II veterans. He was discharged from active duty in March 1947.
He received the following decorations: the American Theater Ribbon, the Asiatic Pacific Theater Ribbon with two Bronze Stars, the World War II Victory Medal, the Combat Infantry Badge and the Purple Heart.
His parents, John A. Hartman and Yvonne Marie Reynaud, met while his father was serving in World War I near Tonnay-Charente, France. Yvonne Reynaud worked in the local post office. When the end of World War I was declared, she was assigned to take the message to the mayor.
Jean Hartman was born in Craig, Colorado, near where his grandmother Florence Hartman had a homestead. His parents moved to San Francisco and then to Denver.
When he went to school, he was teased about the name Jean. His father was named John, which in the language of his French mother was Jean – and the name of generations of men in her family. Many episodes of fighting over whether he had a girl's name left him reading books outside the principal's office. A series of books on rocks and geology left him with a life-long fascination.
With the support of the G.I. (the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944), Jean Hartman enrolled in the Colorado School of Mines. He graduated as an exploration geologist and was hired by Phillips Petroleum Co. He worked for Phillips in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Alexandria, Egypt.
In a seventh grade art class, Jean Hartman met the girl he ultimately married on June 2, 1947, Betty Jean Logan (1923-2003).
Jean F. Hartman, a captain in the U.S. Army during World War II, was the great-grandson of a Civil War veteran (Alfred Hartman, Fourth Iowa Cavalry, Co. I), and the son of a World War I veteran (John A. Hartman, American Expeditionary Force).
He enlisted in the U.S. Army after the bombing of Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, and entered active duty on July 18, 1942. He attended Infantry Officers Candidates School at Ft. Benning, Georgia. He left the continental U.S. for service in New Guinea on May 22, 1943, and served in battles on the Bismarck Archipelago off of New Guinea and Iwo Jima.
On Iwo Jima, he was assigned to tell Japanese soldiers hidden in caves to surrender before the caves were flooded. During one of these assignments (May 25, 1945), he and another soldier entered a cave and tripped a mine. The mine exploded at shoulder level to Jean Hartman. It killed the soldier he was with and left Jean severely injured. When he was brought down from the mountain, the doctors who first saw him did not believe he would survive.
He was treated at McCormack General Hospital in Pasadena, where pioneering work in plastic surgery was being done on World War II veterans. He was discharged from active duty in March 1947.
He received the following decorations: the American Theater Ribbon, the Asiatic Pacific Theater Ribbon with two Bronze Stars, the World War II Victory Medal, the Combat Infantry Badge and the Purple Heart.
His parents, John A. Hartman and Yvonne Marie Reynaud, met while his father was serving in World War I near Tonnay-Charente, France. Yvonne Reynaud worked in the local post office. When the end of World War I was declared, she was assigned to take the message to the mayor.
Jean Hartman was born in Craig, Colorado, near where his grandmother Florence Hartman had a homestead. His parents moved to San Francisco and then to Denver.
When he went to school, he was teased about the name Jean. His father was named John, which in the language of his French mother was Jean – and the name of generations of men in her family. Many episodes of fighting over whether he had a girl's name left him reading books outside the principal's office. A series of books on rocks and geology left him with a life-long fascination.
With the support of the G.I. (the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944), Jean Hartman enrolled in the Colorado School of Mines. He graduated as an exploration geologist and was hired by Phillips Petroleum Co. He worked for Phillips in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Alexandria, Egypt.
In a seventh grade art class, Jean Hartman met the girl he ultimately married on June 2, 1947, Betty Jean Logan (1923-2003).
He enlisted in the U.S. Army after the bombing of Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, and entered active duty on July 18, 1942. He attended Infantry Officers Candidates School at Ft. Benning, Georgia. He left the continental U.S. for service in New Guinea on May 22, 1943, and served in battles on the Bismarck Archipelago off of New Guinea and Iwo Jima.
On Iwo Jima, he was assigned to tell Japanese soldiers hidden in caves to surrender before the caves were flooded. During one of these assignments (May 25, 1945), he and another soldier entered a cave and tripped a mine. The mine exploded at shoulder level to Jean Hartman. It killed the soldier he was with and left Jean severely injured. When he was brought down from the mountain, the doctors who first saw him did not believe he would survive.
He was treated at McCormack General Hospital in Pasadena, where pioneering work in plastic surgery was being done on World War II veterans. He was discharged from active duty in March 1947.
He received the following decorations: the American Theater Ribbon, the Asiatic Pacific Theater Ribbon with two Bronze Stars, the World War II Victory Medal, the Combat Infantry Badge and the Purple Heart.
His parents, John A. Hartman and Yvonne Marie Reynaud, met while his father was serving in World War I near Tonnay-Charente, France. Yvonne Reynaud worked in the local post office. When the end of World War I was declared, she was assigned to take the message to the mayor.
Jean Hartman was born in Craig, Colorado, near where his grandmother Florence Hartman had a homestead. His parents moved to San Francisco and then to Denver.
When he went to school, he was teased about the name Jean. His father was named John, which in the language of his French mother was Jean – and the name of generations of men in her family. Many episodes of fighting over whether he had a girl's name left him reading books outside the principal's office. A series of books on rocks and geology left him with a life-long fascination.
With the support of the G.I. (the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944), Jean Hartman enrolled in the Colorado School of Mines. He graduated as an exploration geologist and was hired by Phillips Petroleum Co. He worked for Phillips in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Alexandria, Egypt.
In a seventh grade art class, Jean Hartman met the girl he ultimately married on June 2, 1947, Betty Jean Logan (1923-2003).
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