Zuverink, Gordon (Interview transcript and video), 2011

Vantil, Anita (Interviewer)

Gordon Zuverink joined his local National Guard unit in Holland, Michigan, after graduating from high school in 1939. His unit was federalized in 1940 and sent to train in Louisiana. In 1942, his division was sent to Australia and then to New Guinea. Zuverink became one of the "Ghost Mountain Boys" who trekked across the Owen Stanley Mountains as part of the campaign against Buna. During the campaign, he contracted malaria and was sent back to Australia, where he served for the remainder of the war.

2011-09-27

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

Veterans History Project (U.S.)