Folkema, Harold (Interview outline and video), 2002

Citation

Folkema, Harold, “Folkema, Harold (Interview outline and video), 2002,” Digital Collections, accessed December 6, 2025, https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/28883.

Title

Folkema, Harold (Interview outline and video), 2002

Creator

Contributor

Boring, Frank (Interviewer)
Michigan Military Preservation Society (Grand Rapids, Mich.)

Description

Harold Folkema is a World War II veteran who served in the U.S. Army from 1943 to 1945. In this account, Folkema discusses his pre-enlistment, enlistment and training in the U.S. and England. Assigned to the 1st Infantry Division as a replacement in May 1944, he participated in the D-Day landing at Omaha Beach, and fought through Normandy, northern France, Belgium and into Germany, where he was wounded by a mine.

Date

2002-08-23

Rights

Publisher

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

Relation

Veterans History Project (U.S.)

Identifier

FolkemaH

Format

application/pdf
video/mp4

Type

Moving Image
Text

Language

eng