A Youth in Service to the Nation Born around 1926, Delmar Coville grew up in a difficult economic environment marked by the Great Depression. By 1940, he worked as an apprentice electrician for the E.L. Knight Electric Company in Portland, Oregon, developing skills that would earn him a specialization in turboelectric systems within the Navy. In September 1943, at only 17 years old, he enlisted with the permission of his father, Charles Emmit Coville, answering his country's patriotic call....