Wykstra, James (Interview outline and video), 2011

Citation

Wykstra, James, “Wykstra, James (Interview outline and video), 2011,” Digital Collections, accessed April 6, 2025, https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/29648.

Title

Wykstra, James (Interview outline and video), 2011

Creator

Wykstra, James

Contributor

Smither, James (Interviewer)

Description

James Wykstra was born in 1947 in the town of Cutlerville, Michigan. After graduating from high school, Wykstra felt it was his duty to serve in the military. In August 1966, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy Reserves. Following completion of basic training at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center in Chicago, Wykstra returned to Cutlerville and regularly attended the reserve meetings until going on active duty in the summer, 1967. Assigned the to destroyer escort U.S.S. Davidson, Wykstra patrolled along the Vietnamese coast and sailed to numerous locales in the Southwest Pacific, including Japan, Hong Kong, Bangkok, and the Philippines.

Date

2011-01-13

Rights

In Copyright

Publisher

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

Relation

Veterans History Project (U.S.)
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