VanderMoere, Jim (Interview outline and video), 2008

Montagna, Douglas (Interviewer)

Great Lakes Naval Memorial & Museum (Muskegon, Mich.)

Jim Vandermoere was born and raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He was drafted on June 11, 1943 and started training at Great Lakes, Illinois eleven days later. He decided to join the Navy, and decided to become a submariner because it offered better pay and better food. He served in a relief crew on the sub tender U.S.S. Orion for eight months while in Australia. He was assigned to the submarine U.S.S. Blenny on February 5, 1945. He served on patrols near Indonesia and Southeast Asia. He served overseas for twenty-two months.

2008-10-16

Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives

Veterans History Project (U.S.)

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