Weidner, Fred, “Weidner, Fred (Interview outline and video), 2010,” Digital Collections, accessed March 18, 2025, https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/29613.
Fred Weidner served in the 222nd Searchlight Battalion in the Pacific in World War II. His unit was deployed to New Guinea in 1944, and then to the Philippines in early 1945, where he witnessed enemy bombing raids and kamikaze attacks.