Edema, August (Interview outline and video), 2008
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Title
Edema, August (Interview outline and video), 2008
Creator
Contributor
Smither, James (Interviewer)
Byron Area Historic Museum (Byron Center, Mich.)
BCTV
Description
August Edema was born in Byron Center, Michigan in 1920. He was drafted after Pearl Harbor was attacked when he was 20. He went to the west coast and trained in the 96th Division. They made him a staff sergeant and he trained new recruits for 2 years. After that he went to Leyte, Philippines and was a platoon sergeant. August fought in the jungle of the Philippines until he was wounded on November 13, 1944. He spent the rest of the war in hospitals in the Pacific and the US, and was discharged when the war ended.
Date
2008-02-19
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Subject
Publisher
Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
Relation
Veterans History Project (U.S.)
Identifier
EdemaA
Format
application/pdf
video/mp4
Type
Moving Image
Text
Language
eng
Collection
Citation
Edema, August, “Edema, August (Interview outline and video), 2008,” Digital Collections, accessed December 22, 2024, https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/27216.