Pasma, Gene H. (Interview outline and video)

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Title

Pasma, Gene H. (Interview outline and video)

Creator

Contributor

Jones, Adam (Interviewer)

Description

Gene Pasma was born on August 28, 1923 in Moline, Michigan. He grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan and was drafted in January 1943. He received basic training at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland as well as went to a technical school to learn how to be an armorer. He was stationed at Camp Myles Standish, Massachusetts from mid-1943 to fall 1944 servicing small arms for men going overseas. He was pulled from that duty and received further training at Camp Plauche, Louisiana and Camp Howze, Texas and was sent to the European Theatre in January 1945 as a replacement infantryman. He joined the 69th Infantry Division in England and was assigned to 2nd Squad, 3rd Platoon, A Company, 1st Battalion, 271st Infantry Regiment. They went over to Europe in late January 1945 and he saw action on the Siegfried Line, in the Rhineland, and across Germany until he was wounded on April 25, 1945. After recovering from his wounds he rejoined his unit in Germany and stayed with them until the end of August 1945. He left Europe in late August 1945 and was finally discharged from the Army at Camp Polk, Louisiana in Novembber 1945.

Date

2015-05-26

Rights

Publisher

Grand Valley State University Libraries. Allendale, Michigan

Relation

Veterans History Project (U.S.)

Identifier

RHC-27_PasmaG1773V

Format

application/pdf
video/mp4

Type

Text
Moving Image

Language

eng

Citation

Pasma, Gene H., “Pasma, Gene H. (Interview outline and video),” Digital Collections, accessed December 23, 2024, https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/41071.
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