Title: Charles Brantley Bissette oral history interview, July 5, 1998

Identifier: OH0173   (https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/11252)

Description: Charles Brantley Bissette Oral History Interview. Lieutenant Commander Charles Brantley Bissette, Supply Corps U.S. Naval Reserve, comments early life and military service during WWII. Bissette grew up in Wilson, NC and attended Atlantic Christian College. After graduating he taught briefly in Lenoir County and then became the manager of a drugstore in Greenville, NC. After Pearl Harbor Bissette applied for a commission in the Navy and served in the Charlestown Navy Yard (Mass.), at Little Creek Naval Amphibious Base in Virginia Beach, and in Kodiak, Alaska. Interviewer: H.A.I. Sugg.