Balyeat, Gordon (Interview outline and video), 2008

Citation

Balyeat, Gordon, “Balyeat, Gordon (Interview outline and video), 2008,” Digital Collections, accessed March 13, 2025, https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/27098.

Title

Balyeat, Gordon (Interview outline and video), 2008

Creator

Balyeat, Gordon

Contributor

Smither, James (Interviewer)

Description

Dr. Gordon Balyeat was born in Michigan in 1911 and grew up in the small town of Sparta. He graduated from high school in 1928 and went to Kalamazoo College and the University of Michigan. Gordon attended college during the prohibition and the depression. After receiving his medical degree, Gordon worked in various hospitals from Seattle to New York. He joined the Navy in 1942 and worked with the Northwestern Medical Unit. Gordon was sent to the Russell Islands in the Pacific in 1943 to set up a hospital, where he tended many Marines wounded in battle.

Date

2008-04-21

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In Copyright

Publisher

Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives

Relation

Veterans History Project (U.S.)
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