Lucas, Arthur (Interview outline, video, and papers), 2007

Citation

Lucas, Arthur, “Lucas, Arthur (Interview outline, video, and papers), 2007,” Digital Collections, accessed March 17, 2025, https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/29192.

Title

Lucas, Arthur (Interview outline, video, and papers), 2007

Creator

Lucas, Arthur

Contributor

Smither, James (Interviewer)

Description

Art Lucas was born in a small farm town in Michigan in 1922. There he acquired farming skills that would help him to avoid being drafted into the war at the very beginning. Lucas became eligible for the draft and decided to enlist in the Navy serving on an LST as a signalman and then as a quartermaster between 1944 and 1946. He has photographs taken in Japan after Nagasaki had been bombed. After serving, he continued farming and in Michigan was voted supervisor of his township for 25 consecutive years. Personal narrative, "My Two Years Before the Mast" is appended to the interview outline.

Date

2007-09-20

Rights

In Copyright

Publisher

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

Relation

Veterans History Project (U.S.)
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