Ringnalda, Cornelius and Richard Herrema (Interview outline and video), 2008

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Title

Ringnalda, Cornelius and Richard Herrema (Interview outline and video), 2008

Contributor

Smither, James (Interviewer)
Byron Area Historic Museum (Byron Center, Mich.)
BCTV

Description

Cornelius Ringnalda and Richard Herrema were interviewed jointly. Ringnalda was born in Grand Rapids in the early twenties and drafted into the military after high school. He served with the 383rd Infantry Regiment and fought on Okinawa in the early stages of the campaign, and was wounded after about two weeks of combat. Herrema was born in Michigan in the early twenties and was also drafted after high school. He joined the Air Force Cadet program and was assigned to a B-29 crew with the 13th Air Force, and flew 21 missions from bases in New Guinea and the Philippines.

Date

2008-07-09

Rights

Publisher

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

Relation

Veterans History Project (U.S.)

Identifier

Ring-Herr

Format

application/pdf
video/mp4

Type

Moving Image
Text

Language

eng

Citation

Ringnalda, Cornelius and Herrema, Richard, “Ringnalda, Cornelius and Richard Herrema (Interview outline and video), 2008,” Digital Collections, accessed December 22, 2024, https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/29417.
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