Bennett, Don, “Bennett, Don (Interview outline and video), 2008,” Digital Collections, accessed March 17, 2025, https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/27188.
Don Bennett was born in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in 1925. He attended Albion College for one semester, then enlisted in the Navy, and became a submariner. He served on five patrols, one in the Kurile Islands, three near the Yellow Sea, and a final one north of Tokyo. During this time they sunk forty-two enemy ships. He was discharged on December 18th, 1945. After the war, he finished school at Albion College.