Orr, Al, “Orr, Al (Interview outline and video), 2004,” Digital Collections, accessed March 6, 2025, https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/29340.
Al Orr was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan on November 5, 1935. He enlisted in the Marines Corps in November 1952 when he was only 17 years old. Al was sent to the Pacific in March 1966 and first arrived in Okinawa where he was assigned to a unit. He was then sent into Da Nang where he worked as an assistant operations officer of his battalion. Al was in Vietnam for a little over a year and was engaged in a campaign against the Viet Cong in his sector.