Grams, Leonhard (Interview outline and video), 2017

Citation

Grams, Leonhard, “Grams, Leonhard (Interview outline and video), 2017,” Digital Collections, accessed March 14, 2025, https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/40666.

Title

Grams, Leonhard (Interview outline and video), 2017

Creator

Grams, Leonhard

Contributor

Smither, James (Interviewer)

Description

Leonhard Grams was born on May 20, 1920, in Adamow, Poland. After war broke out in 1939, his family moved to German-occupied Poland because they were ethnic Germans. On February 2, 1941, he was drafted into the Luftwaffe and served at Tempelhof-Berlin Field in Berlin. He served as part of an antiaircraft crew and witnessed multiple bombings of Berlin. He was sent to the Russian front in 1942, and was later wounded and sent to a hospital in Austria, went back into the army and was taken prisoner by the French at the end of the war.

Date

2017-01-10

Rights

In Copyright

Publisher

Grand Valley State University Libraries. Allendale, Michigan

Relation

Veterans History Project (U.S.)
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