VanHoef, Jack (Interview outline and video), 2014

Smither, James (Interviewer)

Jack VanHoef was born in Grand Haven, Michigan in 1925. In 1943 he enlisted in the Army with the intention of going into the Army Air Corps. He received basic training at Biloxi, Mississippi

college training at North Carolina State College in Raleigh, North Carolina

he was classified to be a radio operator onboard an aircraft and was sent to radio school at Scott Field, Illinois and upon completing that was assigned to a B-24 Liberator bomber crew in Yuma, Arizona. He and his crew were deployed to the Pacific Theatre and in early 1945 they reached New Guinea and he and his crew were assigned to a squadron in the 90th Bomber Group of the 5th Air Force. He began flying missions in February 1945 out of New Guinea and out of the Philippines and did so until the end of the war in August 1945. He flew missions against targets in China, Indonesia, Taiwan, and the Philippines not only serving as his bomber's radioman, but also as a turret gunner. He was discharged in August 1945.

2014-09-11

Grand Valley State University Libraries. Allendale, Michigan

Veterans History Project (U.S.)

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