Martyn, Douglas (Interview outline and video), 2007

Citation

Martyn, Douglas, “Martyn, Douglas (Interview outline and video), 2007,” Digital Collections, accessed December 6, 2025, https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/29231.

Title

Martyn, Douglas (Interview outline and video), 2007

Creator

Contributor

Smither, James (Interviewer)

Description

Douglas Martyn served in the US Army from 1944 to 1946. He initially trained as a medic in Chicago and worked in a dispensary and administered inoculations to new recruits. He eventually transferred to the Army Air Corps and was based first in Louisiana and then in Alaska at a base near Nome that Generals Eisenhower and LeMay visited because of the good fishing there.

Date

2007-12-21

Rights

Publisher

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

Relation

Veterans History Project (U.S.)

Identifier

MartynD

Format

application/pdf
video/mp4

Type

Moving Image
Text

Language

eng