Park, Robert (Interview outline and video), 2013

Smither, James (Interviewer)

WKTV (Wyoming, Mich.)

Robert Park was born in 1925 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He was drafted in 1943 and trained at Camp Roberts, California, and Camp Bowie, Texas, with the 13th Armored Division in a firing battery of the 498th Armored Field Artillery Battalion and was deployed to the European Theatre as an artillery observer in January, 1945. He saw action at the Saar River, in the Ruhr Pocket, and in Bavaria. After the war's end he served out his enlistment at Fort Hood, Texas, and was discharged in 1946.

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

Veterans History Project (U.S.)

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