Butkus, Chuck (Interview outline and video), 2009

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Title

Butkus, Chuck (Interview outline and video), 2009

Creator

Contributor

Smither, James (Interviewer)
Byron Area Historic Museum (Byron Center, Mich.)
BCTV

Description

Charles Butkus served in the Air Force as a meteorologist during the Korean War. He was born in Waukegan, Illinois, and his father was an electrician. He completed high school and some college before he joined the Air Force due to his low draft number. He specialized as a meteorologist, and served in the South Pacific during the atomic testing program and in Hawaii taking readings from weather balloons.

Date

2009-02-03

Rights

Publisher

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

Relation

Veterans History Project (U.S.)

Identifier

ButkusC

Format

application/pdf
video/mp4

Type

Moving Image
Text

Language

eng

Citation

Butkus, Chuck, “Butkus, Chuck (Interview outline and video), 2009,” Digital Collections, accessed December 23, 2024, https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/27126.
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