Stoepker, Jack (Interview outline and video), 2015

Smither, James (Interviewer)

Jack Stoepker was born in 1928 in Holland, Michigan, and grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He served as an air raid warden during World War II, and enlisted in the Army in summer 1946. While training at Fort Knox, Kentucky, he injured a knee and was sent to Valley Forge General Hospital, Pennsylvania and during recovery there was transferred to the dental clinic at the hospital to work as a dentist's assistant. He specifically aided patients that had suffered severe facial trauma during the war and needed reconstructive surgery as well as physical and psychological rehabilitation.

2015-04-16

Grand Valley State University Libraries. Allendale, Michigan

Veterans History Project (U.S.)

RHC-27_StoepkerJ1745V

application/pdf

video/mp4

Text

Moving Image

eng