Bush, Jimmie Carrol (Interview outline and video), 2005
Oral history
Veterans History Project (U.S.)
United States--History, Military
Michigan--History, Military
Veterans
Video recordings
United States. Army
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American
Jimmie Carol Bush was drafted into the Army in 1967, and served in the Vietnam War. He joined the 82nd Airborne Division, and was involved in heavy jungle fighting. His job in his platoon was to carry the M-60 machine gun. His unit spent most of its time being transported by helicopter.
Bush, Jimmie Carrol
Veterans History Project collection, (RHC-27)
Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
Caledonia High School (Caledonia, Mich.)
In Copyright
Bush, Paul (Interview outline and video), 2012
Other veterans & civilians--Personal narratives, American
Paul Bush, born January 21st 1931, was drafted into the U.S. Army shortly after completing college in 1953. Paul completed his basic at Fort Knox Kentucky. Upon its competition, Paul was then sent to Southern France. Here he was made a chaplain's aide, and served with the chaplain on several bases in France and Germany. Paul returned to the states to receive a teaching degree. When he finished he worked through a military program to return to Europe and teach in schools on military bases in Germany and Italy.
Bush, Paul
Buskers, Maurice (Interview outline and video), 2009
United States. Navy
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American
Maurice Buskers enlisted into the Navy after graduating from Ottawa Hills High School in 1943. He was originally a part of the V-12 Program that would have made him an Officer of the Navy, but he decided to transfer into the Navy Air Corps instead. He was to become a pilot but was sent to Great Lakes for Navy training because there were too many pilots at the time. Buskers never saw battle because World War II had ended before he finished training.
Buskers, Maurice
Byron Area Historic Museum (Byron Center, Mich.)
Buteyn, Donald (Interview outline and video), 2008
Donald Buteyn served in the US Army from 1942-1945. He served as an infantryman in the 303rd Regiment, and saw action along the Dutch/Belgian frontier early in 1945 and took part in the crossing of the Rhine at Remagen. He later participated in the closing of the Saar pocket and in the capture of Cologne and Dusseldorf. Before being wounded in April, he participated in the liberation of three concentration camps for political prisoners. His wartime experiences helped him to decide to go into the ministry after the war.
Buteyn, Donald
Butkus, Chuck (Interview outline and video), 2009
United States. Air Force
Korean War, 1950-1953--Personal narratives, American
Charles Butkus served in the Air Force as a meteorologist during the Korean War. He was born in Waukegan, Illinois, and his father was an electrician. He completed high school and some college before he joined the Air Force due to his low draft number. He specialized as a meteorologist, and served in the South Pacific during the atomic testing program and in Hawaii taking readings from weather balloons.
Butkus, Chuck
Nathan Sargent from Benjamin F. Butler, November 11, 1874
Sargent, Nathan, 1794-1875
Clayton, John M. (John Middleton), 1796-1856
Fillmore, Millard, 1800-1874
Burr, Aaron, 1756-1836
Clinton, George, 1739-1812
Tompkins, Daniel D., 1774-1825
Van Buren, Martin, 1782-1862
Sergeant, John, 1779-1852
Frelinghuysen, Theodore, 1787-1862
Johnson, Richard M. (Richard Mentor), 1780-1850
Whig Party (U.S.)
United States--Politics and government--19th century
United States--Officials and employees
United States. Office of the Vice President
New Castle (Del.)
New York (State)
Massachusetts
Virginia
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Delaware
New Jersey
Illinois
Letter regarding Butler's treatment by the press.
Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1893
Nathan Sargent papers, (RHC-44)
No Copyright - United States
Butler, James (Interview outline and video), 2008
James Butler served in the United States Navy during the Vietnam War. He evaded earlier tours of Vietnam, by serving on two missions to Antarctica as part of a construction crew. However, he eventually served time in DaNang, Vietnam, once again as a construction member. After his active service, Butler served time in both the United States Naval Reserve and the United States Army Reserve. After failing to secure an officers position in either branch, he joined the United States Coast Guard Reserve. He became a Lieutenant Commander and served until his retirement.
Butler, James
Spring Lake District Library (Spring Lake, Mich.)
Butler, Oliver J (Interview outline, video, and papers), 2004
United States. Marine Corps
Oliver Butler was an aerial photographer for the Marines during World War II and was based on Midway Island. He spent 13 months here taking pictures of terrain and enemy defenses. He remained in the reserves during the Korean War where he was a Training Sergeant. Photographs appended to interview outline.
Butler, Oliver J
Butt, Jimmy L (Interview outline and video), 2017
Jimmy Butt was born in Tippo, Mississippi, on October 13, 1921. He was in the Reserve Officers' Training Corps at Auburn University and graduated in February 1943. He attended the Officer Candidate School at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and was commissioned as an officer on June 23, 1943. He completed Survey School a month later. In September 1943, he went to Camp Van Dorn, Mississippi, and joined the 863rd Field Artillery Battalion of the 63rd Infantry Division. On Christmas Day 1944, he sailed to the European Theatre and in January 1945 joined the rest of the 63rd near Saarbrucken. He participated in the fighting on the Siegfried Line and the eventual crossing of the Rhine River into Germany. He was with the division as it advanced through Germany and witnessed the liberation of multiple slave labor camps. After Germany's surrender in May 1945, he was part of the Army of Occupation and served in Karlsruhe and Stuttgart. He left Germany in summer 1946 and was discharged at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, in September 1946.
Butt, Jimmy L,
Grand Valley State University Libraries. Allendale, Michigan
Buys, Russell (Interview outline and video), 2010
Russell Buys enlisted in the Michigan National Guard shortly after graduating from high school in 1940. A few months later, his unit was activated and sent to Louisiana to train. He initially served as a cook with the 2nd Battalion, 126th Infantry Regiment, 32nd Division. He sailed with them to Australia, and was then shipped to New Guinea, where he and his battalion marched over the Owen Stanley Mountains toward Buna. Toward the end of the Buna campaign, he decided that he wanted to do more than cook, and became a rifleman and got himself wounded in the shoulder. He recovered and stayed with the unit through further fighting in New Guinea and the Philippines before rotating home in 1945.
Buys, Russell
Byers, Steven R. (Interview outline and video), 2008
Steve Byers had been in the Navy for 20 years when he retired in 2000. He discusses the benefits of military life and some of the differences between military and civilian experiences and attitudes.
Byers, Steven R.
Byl, Larry (audio interview and transcript)
Oceana County (Mich.)
Shelby (Mich.)
Farms
Farmers
Fruit growers
Future Farmers of America
Hope College
Audio recordings
Oral history interview with Lawrence (Larry) Byl. Interviewed by Walter Urick on June 18, 2016 in Hart, Michigan. English language. Larry Byl was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1957 as the son of two Dutch immigrants. Larry and his family moved to western Oceana County in 1966 and created a life for their family on their eighty-acre fruit farm, which over the years grew to become a three-hundred-acre farm. He attended Shelby High School where he took Future Farmers of America classes, and later graduated from Hope College in Holland, Michigan before finding his life’s work in real estate. Larry also served many years as County Commissioner and Village President for his community of Shelby, Michigan.
Byl, Larry
Growing Community (NEH Common Heritage)
Byrd, Edward (Interview outline and video), 2014
Dr. Edward Byrd was born in 1940 in Birmingham, Alabama and grew up in Washington, D.C. He attended George Washington University and was accepted into the medical school there graduating in 1965. All medical school graduates at the time were expected to enter the service, so he joined the Navy,completed a short training at Annapolis Naval Academy, Maryland and served aboard the USS Chikaskia, USS Altair, and USS Truckee and took a cruise to the Mediterranean Sea taking part in aiding the USS Liberty during the Six Day War in 1967. In 1967 he volunteered to go to Vietnam to gain some experience with neurosurgery. In August 1967 he arrived in Vietnam and was assigned to the USS Repose off of Da Nang. He was originally in charge of his own ward aboard the ship treating tropical diseases until he began to assist neurosurgeons. In Vietnam he aided in treating a myriad of casualties from minor wounds to fatal wound and saw the immediate effects and aftermath of the Tet Offensive in late January 1968. He returned home and trained and worked as a neurosurgeon. After retiring he took art courses in Charleston, South Carolina and graduated with a degree in art history and studio art. He created a bronze sculpture in memory of one Dennis Lobbezoo, a soldier he treated in Vietnam that died in 1968, that was placed in the Richard M. DeVos Center of Grand Valley State University.
Byrd, Edward
The Club House of West Shore Golf Links, Douglas, Mich. postcard
Michigan
Douglas (Mich.)
Allegan County (Mich.)
Postcards
Outdoor recreation
Golf
Postcard featuring a landscape view of "The Club House" at West Shore Golf Links in Douglas, Michigan. The postcard depicts a clubhouse with an active hillside golf course out front. To the right of the building there is a water tower nearby. The back of the postcard has no handwriting other than the date "1952."
C. R. Childs Co.
Digital file contributed by Jerri Walsh as part of the Stories of Summer project.
Copyright Undetermined
West Shore Golf Links, Douglas, Mich. postcard
Black and white postcard of West Shore Golf Links in Douglas, Michigan. The postcard depicts the first tee of a golf game and has many individuals on the course. The back of the postcard has no handwriting on it other than the note "1st Tee 1952."
Book covers
Covers (Illustration)
Graphic arts
Publishers and publishing
Pictorial bindings
Binding of Manual of Tree Diseases, by W. Howard Rankin, published by The Macmillan Company, 1923.
C.S. (Designer)
Binding of Manual of Home-Making, by Martha Van Rensselaer, Flora Rose, and Helen Canon, published by The Macmillan Company, 1919.
Binding of The Nursery Manual, by L.H. Bailey, published by The Macmillan Company, 1920.
Binding of Manual of Tree and Shrub Insects, by Ephraim Porter Felt, published by The Macmillan Company, 1924.
Binding of Manual of American Grape-Growing, by U.P. Hedrick, published by the Macmillan Company, 1924.
Caden , Mary Lou (Interview transcript and video), 2009
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League--Personal narratives
Baseball for women--United States
Baseball
Sports for women
World War, 1939-1945
Baseball players--Indiana
Women
Mary Lou Caden (née Studnicka) was born in Oak Lawn, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. She grew up in the Oak Lawn area and started playing softball with the neighborhood kids and transitioned to playing for local teams. She played as a short-stop in her amateur career and eventually was contacted by Mitch Skupien in 1950 to play for the Grand Rapids Chicks. She played for the Grand Rapids Chicks from 1951 to 1953 when she was traded to Fort Wayne and due to a pay cut decided to quit baseball and return to her job for National City Bank. During her time with them she played positions such as pitcher and second base.
Caden, Mary Lou
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Collection, (RHC-55)
Cady, Keath (Interview outline and video), 2007
United States. Army. Medical Corps
Philippines
Guadalcanal, Battle of, Solomon Islands, 1942-1943
Keath Cady served in the medical corps during WW II. Cady was on Guadalcanal and the Philippines and describes conditions there. After the war, he served in the army of occupation in Germany. In this interview Cady talks about treating malaria patients and setting up medical facilities during amphibious invasions.
Cady, Keath
Veterans History Project Collection, (RHC-27)
Alfredo Calixto video interview and transcript
Young Lords (Organization)
Puerto Ricans--United States
Civil Rights--United States--History
Lincoln Park (Chicago, Ill.)
Puerto Ricans--Personal narratives
Social justice
Community activists--Illinois--Chicago
Urban renewal--Illinois--Chicago
Youth--Illinois--Chicago
Alfredo “Freddy” Calixto and his family were among the first Puerto Rican families to move to Chicago in the early 1950s. Born in Caguas, Puerto Rico, Mr. Calixto lived through the displacement of Puerto Rican families from La Clark to the Lincoln Park Neighborhood where he grew up. Mr. Calixto describes struggling with discrimination in Lincoln Park and how these early experiences inspired him to commit himself to advocating for Latino youth.
Calixto, Alfredo
Callahan, Glendle Gene (Interview outline and video), 2007
Freemasons
Glendle Callahan served in the Korean War in the United States Army from February 1951 to November 1952 in Alabama and Korea. In this interview, Callahan tells of the day he received his draft letter and why he volunteered to go to Korea after being at Camp Rooker, Alabama. Once overseas he attended supply school and became involved in the Field Artillery.
Callahan, Glendle Gene