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

Smither, James (Interviewer)

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.

2007-09-20

Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives

Veterans History Project (U.S.)

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