Pimm, John, “Pimm, John (Interview outline and video), 2008,” Digital Collections, accessed February 16, 2025, https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/29369.
John Pimm was born in Connecticut in 1924 and graduated from a small country school in 1941. John then went on to a military college in Northfield, Vermont. The entire college enlisted in the service on September 14, 1942. John went through the Army Specialized Training Program in Nebraska and then Combat Engineer Training in Texas. He shipped over to England at the end of 1944, and then served at the end of the Bulge campaign and the advance through Germany to Czechoslovakia.