Hovinga, Joseph (Interview outline and video), 2015
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Title
Hovinga, Joseph (Interview outline and video), 2015
Creator
Contributor
Smither, James (Interviewer)
Description
Joseph Hovinga was born in 1923 in Dorr, Michigan. He grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan and enlisted in the Army in 1942. He trained at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania, and Fort Ord, California. He was sent to Hawaii and was assigned to H Company 32nd Infantry Regiment 7th Infantry Division. He saw action on Attu Island in the Aleutian Islands Campaign, on Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands Campaign, on Leyte in the Philippines, and on Okinawa.
Date
2015
Rights
Subject
Publisher
Grand Valley State University Libraries. Allendale, Michigan
Relation
Veterans History Project (U.S.)
Identifier
RHC-27_HovingaJ1733V
Format
application/pdf
video/mp4
Type
Moving Image
Text
Language
eng
Collection
Citation
Hovinga, Joseph, “Hovinga, Joseph (Interview outline and video), 2015,” Digital Collections, accessed December 22, 2024, https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/41229.