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Collins Sr., Charles E. (Interviewer)

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Hospital, Melvin

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2007-06-29

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Melvin Hospital enlisted in the US Navy in 1939, and was captured by the Germans during the initial allied naval attack on Algiers in 1942. He spent the rest of the war in different German prison camps in Russia, Poland and Germany before being liberated by British forces. After the war, he helped build the Mackinac bridge.

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Veterans History Project Collection, (RHC-27)

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