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Jacob | Jacob Isaak Tennenbaum, later known as Jack Tilden, was born Jakob Isaak Tennenbaum in Vienna on 11 March 1917 into a Jewish family. He graduated from a technical college in mathematics and physics and worked in Vienna as an import-export businessman and sewing machine dealer. After the Anschluss he fled, sailing from Le Havre to the United States in October 1938; he lived in New York City and by October 1940 was working as a stock clerk and shipping clerk. | ||
Tennenbaum was drafted at New York City on 11 February 1941 as a private (enlisted ASN 32005751) and went through the Reception Center at Fort Dix, New Jersey, to artillery basic training with the 244th Coast Artillery Regiment (anti-aircraft) at Camp Pendleton, Virginia, where he specialized among other things as a gun pointer. By June 1942 he had been sent to New Caledonia in the Pacific, and until about February 1943 he served as a survey and instrument man and chief plotter with the 3rd Battalion and Battery F of the 244th (later the 259th) Coast Artillery alongside the 1st Marine Division at Tulagi and Guadalcanal. Back in the United States, he became a naturalized citizen in New York City on 24 May 1943, attended officer training at the Coast Artillery School at Fort Monroe, Virginia, from May 1943, and was commissioned a second lieutenant in October; he was assigned to the headquarters and to Headquarters Battery of the 2nd Battalion, 241st Coast Artillery (Harbor Defense), at Fort Dawes and Fort Revere, Massachusetts. | Tennenbaum was drafted at New York City on 11 February 1941 as a private (enlisted ASN 32005751) and went through the Reception Center at Fort Dix, New Jersey, to artillery basic training with the 244th Coast Artillery Regiment (anti-aircraft) at Camp Pendleton, Virginia, where he specialized among other things as a gun pointer. By June 1942 he had been sent to New Caledonia in the Pacific, and until about February 1943 he served as a survey and instrument man and chief plotter with the 3rd Battalion and Battery F of the 244th (later the 259th) Coast Artillery alongside the 1st Marine Division at Tulagi and Guadalcanal. Back in the United States, he became a naturalized citizen in New York City on 24 May 1943, attended officer training at the Coast Artillery School at Fort Monroe, Virginia, from May 1943, and was commissioned a second lieutenant in October; he was assigned to the headquarters and to Headquarters Battery of the 2nd Battalion, 241st Coast Artillery (Harbor Defense), at Fort Dawes and Fort Revere, Massachusetts. | ||