Spoelstra, Phillip (Interview outline and video), 2008
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Title
Spoelstra, Phillip (Interview outline and video), 2008
Creator
Contributor
Smither, James (Interviewer)
Description
Phillip Spoelstra was born in Wyoming, Michigan in 1923 and moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1939. He graduated high school in 1941 and joined the Air Corps in 1942. Phillip trained mostly in Oklahoma and became part of a bombers unit. He was deployed to Foggia, Italy and assigned to the 5th wing of the 15th Air Force in the 97th bomb group in September of 1944. It was their job to strategically bomb German supplies and transportation. He was in Foggia until the end of the war and then was sent home.
Date
2008
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Subject
Publisher
Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
Relation
Veterans History Project (U.S.)
Identifier
SpoelstraP
Format
application/pdf
video/mp4
Type
Moving Image
Text
Language
eng
Collection
Citation
Spoelstra, Phillip, “Spoelstra, Phillip (Interview outline and video), 2008,” Digital Collections, accessed December 22, 2024, https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/29565.