Mitch, Joseph (Interview outline and video), 2007

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Title

Mitch, Joseph (Interview outline and video), 2007

Creator

Contributor

Smither, James (Interviewer)

Description

Joseph Mitch was born in Pennsylvania in 1919 and drafted into the Army in 1941. He had gone to school only through the third grade, and never learned to read. Because of his illiteracy, he scored poorly on aptitude tests, and the Army almost did not take him because of his low IQ. Before being drafted, Joseph had made money as a loan shark, and he continued to do so through the service and afterwards. Mitch traveled to England, Germany, and France where he served in a Tank Destroyer battalion in the 3rd Armored Division, and was discharged in 1946.

Date

2007-10-30

Rights

Publisher

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

Relation

Veterans History Project (U.S.)

Identifier

MitchJ

Format

application/pdf
video/mp4

Type

Moving Image
Text

Language

eng

Citation

Mitch, Joseph, “Mitch, Joseph (Interview outline and video), 2007,” Digital Collections, accessed December 22, 2024, https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/29287.
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