Sgt Morten Johannes Tscherning Sivebak (Sivebæk)
(1904 - 1984)
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Sgt Morten J. Sivebak was one of the Danish nationals serving with the Army Air Force during the Second World War.
Morten Johannes Tscherning Sivebak (Sivebæk) was born on 14 September 1904 in Kolding. He was the son of solicitor Thomas Tscherning Sivebæk and Kirstine Katrine Sivebæk (née Jensen).[1]
Sivebak emigrated to the United States in 1926 arriving in New York on 24 August 1926 on-board the SS Hellig Olav[2]
By the early 1940s he was working as a waiter in the Childs Restaurants near Times Square in New York. [3] Childs Restaurants was one of the first chain dining restaurants in the USA.[4]
Sivebak enlisted as a private (32443770) in the U.S. Army on 2 September 1942 in Fort Jay Governors Island, New York.[5]
He was naturalised on 9 February 1943. At the time he was a corporal in the Medical Detachment at the Advanced Flying School at Marianna Air Field in Florida. [6] He was assigned to Section ‘E’ 2130th AAF Base Unit, Marianna Air Field, on 1 May 1944. At this point he had been promoted to Sergeant.[7]
Sivebak married Clara Bess Marbut on 6 November 1944. [8] She was a Lieutenant in the US Army Nurse Corps and was stationed at Camp Polk, Louisiana. [9] They seem to have divorced at some point as he remarried later in life.
Sivebak was released from the Air Force on 10 July 1945.
Sivebak died in Atlantic City, New Jersey on 8 April 1984.[10]
Endnotes
[1] DNA: Parish register, Kolding Sankt Nikolaj Sogn.
[2] Ancestry: New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957.
[3] Ancestry: U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947.
[4] Wikipedia: Childs Restautants, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childs_Restaurants#Notable_locations (accessed on 10 April 2020).
[5] Ancestry: U.S., World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946.
[6] Ancestry: Florida, Naturalization Records, 1847-1995.
[7] NARA: RG 64, Morning Reports, Morning Reports for May 1944: Roll 374 (2 of 3) (NAID: 473888653).
[8] Ancestry: Florida, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1823-1982.
[9] Personals, The Tennessean, 16 November 1945, p. 31.
[10] Ancestry: U.S., Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2010.