288 24 26018 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/c0920751d537d71c33155fa6fe11a7bd.mp4 c6049e0d57a7bdb2eae7f3286e24200b https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/b14af11d257c8001ffad7de02b56d08e.pdf 26173d01631a433263c5fe91d7476ab2 PDF Text Text Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project August Edema (36:27) (00:13) Background Information • August was born in Byron Center, MI in 1920 • His family had a 60 acre farm and 6 kids • His father worked in a shop once in a while for extra money • August went to work on the farm after 8th grade • He was drafted when he was 20 in 1941 [1942?] after Pearl Harbor had been attacked (03:25) Training • On October 17, he was inducted in Kalamazoo, MI and then sent to Fort Custer • August then went to Camp Adair, OR, which was new • It took him 5 days to get there by train • He became part of the 96th Infantry Division • They trained in wheat fields, marching with rifles • August stayed there after boot camp to help train new recruits as a staff sergeant • He arrived on the west coast in 1942 and left in 1944 • August also trained people at Fort Lewis, WA and in California • He received amphibious training • Before he left for the Military he got married and while he was on the west coast he lived with his wife in an apartment off base (12:07) Deployment • August left from Oakland, CA in July, 1944 on a troop ship that held 3,000 people and had bunks 5 high • They went to Hawaii and trained for a couple months • After Hawaii they passed New Guinea and landed at Leyte, Philippines • By this time he was platoon sergeant • After arriving on the beach they moved into the jungle, which was hot and humid �• There were 2 regiments on the beach • They would call back for artillery when there were a lot of enemies • He landed on the beach on October 20 and left November 13 • August started with about 40 men and was down to about half in the end • The Japanese had bunkers and HQs with old communication equipment (25:20) Wounded • August was wounded on November 13, 1944 • He was hit in the hand, leg, and neck • August was moved to Guam for a month, Hawaii for a month and then to California for a month • The last hospital he was in was in Atterbury, IN • He had gangrene in his hand and they had to use maggots to fix it • August was discharged after the war was over (33:43) Discharge • After his discharge he went home and farmed for 10 years but the doctors told him he shouldn’t do it anymore because of his injuries • He then got a realtors license • August has a son and a grandson that went into the military � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Veterans History Project Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. History Department Description An account of the resource The Library of Congress established the Veterans History Project in 2001 to collect memories, accounts, and documents of U.S. war veterans from World War II and the Korean War, Vietnam War, and conflicts in the Middle East and elsewhere, and to preserve these stories for future generations. The GVSU History Department interviews are part of this work-in-progress, and may contain videos and audio recordings, transcripts and interview outlines, and related documents and photographs. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1914- Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Subject The topic of the resource Afghan War, 2001--Personal narratives, American Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981--Personal narratives, American Korean War, 1950-1953--Personal narratives, American Michigan--History, Military Oral history Persian Gulf War, 1991--Personal narratives, American United States--History, Military United States. Air Force United States. Army United States. Navy Veterans Video recordings Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smither, James Boring, Frank Relation A related resource Veterans History Project (U.S.) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-27 Language A language of the resource eng Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/455">Veterans History Project interviews (RHC-27)</a> Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Edema, August (Interview outline and video), 2008 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Edema, August Description An account of the resource August Edema was born in Byron Center, Michigan in 1920. He was drafted after Pearl Harbor was attacked when he was 20. He went to the west coast and trained in the 96th Division. They made him a staff sergeant and he trained new recruits for 2 years. After that he went to Leyte, Philippines and was a platoon sergeant. August fought in the jungle of the Philippines until he was wounded on November 13, 1944. He spent the rest of the war in hospitals in the Pacific and the US, and was discharged when the war ended. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smither, James (Interviewer) Byron Area Historic Museum (Byron Center, Mich.) BCTV Subject The topic of the resource Oral history Veterans History Project (U.S.) United States--History, Military Michigan--History, Military Veterans United States. Army World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American Video recordings Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Moving Image Text Relation A related resource Veterans History Project (U.S.) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2008-02-19 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context EdemaA Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/455">Veterans History Project Collection, (RHC-27)</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf video/mp4 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/5532e8dc660dab1118fd5e7476503377.mp4 61fcc2427d2f428f2279502cf72c4e1f https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/33d23be37ecbbed335845b0752df78df.pdf 914303833ba9bc0f2b3cb65a9b45715d PDF Text Text Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project George Edema (00:37:56) (00:30) Background Information • George was born in Byron Center, Michigan and had six other siblings • His older had joined the service during World War Two before he had • His father was a farmer and they owned some land in Byron • George graduated in 1942 when he was 17 years old and then began working in a meat market • George received his draft papers and got a physical in January • He started his service in the Army in March of 1943 (3:10) Basic Training • George began training in Wyoming and had never been so far from home in his life • He took a troop train to Wyoming and stopped in Chicago on the way to take an aptitude test • Training consisted of calisthenics, marching at high altitudes, and running in cold weather with gas masks on • George also had rifle training and found that the physical work was not difficult for him • The drill sergeants acted like they were superior to the whole world • George trained in Wyoming for 13 weeks (8:20) California • Here the men lived in horse stalls, but the weather was very nice • George went to automotive school and was told that he had been in the wrong class after eleven weeks of training • He then had training in small arms school working with rifles and pistols for twelve weeks • George was asked to be an instructor in the small arms classes, but called into ASTP after instructing for only two weeks (10:00) Army Specialized Training Program • George attended engineering school in California for one month • He trained five days a week and had the weekends off • The locals in California were all very nice to the men in the service • George then went to the University of Indiana, but washed out after five months because the classes were too hard (13:45) Maryland • George was working with the engineering corps, learning about mechanics and working on everything except tanks �• • • • He then went to Georgia for six weeks and trained specifically with Jeep engines George went back to Wyoming for more training, but hurt his knee and was off his feet for six months He had surgery on the cartilage of his knee and then took some time off on leave to visit his family After his time on leave, George continued training in mechanics traveling to Pennsylvania and California (20:10) Overseas • George took a ship to India from California and found that the voyage was “not pleasant” • Everyone was sick and the weather was bad • They landed in Calcutta and it was a cultural shock for everyone • George had never seen so many poor people in his entire life • They took a train to Burma and then a plane to China to their headquarters • George got sick with Diphtheria and had to go to the hospital • When he was out of the hospital, he began working on repairing thing in a very dirty and unsafe area (31:20) Treatment for Diphtheria • George had been on duty when his legs started to feel weird and he found it hard to walk • He found he had a reaction to the Diphtheria treatment and that he was becoming paralyzed • He had to go to another hospital in Shanghai, and get massage therapy • After recovering, George traveled back to Washington • On May 12, 1946 he went to visit his soon-to-be wife and her family back in Wyoming • He then went to another hospital in Chicago for further recovery • He got married two weeks after he was discharged (35:50) Life After the Service • George began working on his wife’s brother’s farm • He then went into business with his father in law • George later spent 35 years in the garbage removal business • His time in the service allowed him to travel a lot • He had a good experience, but would never do it again � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Veterans History Project Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. History Department Description An account of the resource The Library of Congress established the Veterans History Project in 2001 to collect memories, accounts, and documents of U.S. war veterans from World War II and the Korean War, Vietnam War, and conflicts in the Middle East and elsewhere, and to preserve these stories for future generations. The GVSU History Department interviews are part of this work-in-progress, and may contain videos and audio recordings, transcripts and interview outlines, and related documents and photographs. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1914- Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Subject The topic of the resource Afghan War, 2001--Personal narratives, American Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981--Personal narratives, American Korean War, 1950-1953--Personal narratives, American Michigan--History, Military Oral history Persian Gulf War, 1991--Personal narratives, American United States--History, Military United States. Air Force United States. Army United States. Navy Veterans Video recordings Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smither, James Boring, Frank Relation A related resource Veterans History Project (U.S.) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-27 Language A language of the resource eng Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/455">Veterans History Project interviews (RHC-27)</a> Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Edema, George (Interview outline and video), 2008 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Edema, George Description An account of the resource George Edema was drafted into the Army in March of 1943. George traveled around the US for training and was then asked to be an instructor in small arms. He only taught for two weeks before he was called into the Army Specialized Training program. George then went to India, Burma and China for a short amount of time before he caught diphtheria and was sent back to the US. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smither, James (Interviewer) Byron Area Historic Museum (Byron Center, Mich.) BCTV Subject The topic of the resource Oral history Veterans History Project (U.S.) United States--History, Military Michigan--History, Military Veterans United States. Army World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American Video recordings Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Moving Image Text Relation A related resource Veterans History Project (U.S.) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2008-02-05 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context EdemaG Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/455">Veterans History Project Collection, (RHC-27)</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf video/mp4 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/5c2a462476ea8638c11d70dc8007ed9f.mp4 168746d21012e3268ca7d5600909e934 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/f478de82f55bcc74daf53cc17da9da88.pdf 734cb68c40a653476e521945647bca16 PDF Text Text Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Interview World War II, Navy WAVs Margaret Edema Length of Interview: 20:02 (00:21) JS: We’re talking today with Margaret Edema of Byron Center, Michigan. The interviewer is James Smither of Grand Valley State University. Okay, Mrs. Edema, can you start by telling us a little bit about your own background. For instance, where were you born? ME: I was born in Cicero, Illinois. JS: Okay, and what did your family do? ME: My dad was a farmer. JS: In Cicero, Illinois? ME: Yes. JS: Now, that dates you a little bit. (laughter) ME: Yes. JS: I grew up in the western suburbs of Chicago and Cicero was already surrounded by city. ME: Yes. Ogden Avenue and Central Avenue. And there was a farm there. JS: I can remember a farm stand in Hindsdale, in the early ‘60s. So I guess Cicero broke up a few decades earlier. Okay, all right. And then, did he stay in that business then, through the ‘30s? (01:03) ME: My dad was a farmer all his life. He came from Holland as a farmer. JS: And what’s your family name? ME: Postma. JS: Postma. A good Dutch name. Okay, so then, did you go through high school in Cicero? ME: No, we moved to Hinsdale, Illinois, on another farm, and I went to high school in Hinsdale. JS: And, out of curiosity, where was that farm located? �ME: On Ogden Avenue, again. Same road. Same street, yeah. JS: Okay. And was it near Ogden and York Road, or was it farther off than that? ME: It was further south…further west than York Road. JS: All right. Cause I grew up there, and there were still farms and fields out there, that side of Ogden. Okay, a little aside there, for people not from Michigan, I guess. Okay, so then, you attended high school in Hinsdale. Was the high school kind of in the downtown of Hinsdale, at that point? ME: Oh, yes. It was a big high school. We had a hundred in my class. (02:05) JS: All right. That was the building my mother tore down and replaced with the new junior high school, when she was president of the school board. And again, another aside from people not from Michigan. Ahh, okay. Now, do you remember how you heard about Pearl Harbor, and the beginning of the war. ME: Oh, everybody was war-minded. I worked in a defense plant. My sister worked at Douglas Aircraft. And we sort of joined forces and she went to work at [Electra-motive] and I went to work at a defense corporation that was building a plant for the Aluminum Company of America. JS: And where was that? ME: So we drove together. That was in LaGrange, Illinois. (02:53) JS: Okay. Now, let’s see, you start working there in ’40? ’41. Or was it… ME: Oh, it must have been ’41, I guess. JS: Okay. And when did you graduate from high school? ME: 1940. JS: Okay. Now, what kind of work were you doing then? ME: I was a secretary. Secretary to the project manager of the whole plant, which was a great big outfit. JS: About how many people do you think were working there then? ME: Oh, thousands. Building, of every trade. �JS: And so it’s an aluminum company. Were they making parts for things… ME: They were making airplane parts. JS: Parts. All right. Now, before Pearl Harbor, were you kind of paying attention to what was going on in the world or were you working, doing any kind of war-type work before Pearl Harbor? Before the end of ’41. (03:48) ME: I don’t exactly remember Pearl Harbor. I mean, I remember it happening, but I don’t know where I was then. (laughs) JS: Okay. But then certainly once the war is going, you’re actively involved in the war industry. And how long did you stay in that job? ME: I worked there two years. When the plant was finished, the jobs all ended. The secretarial jobs in the office. And that’s when I joined the service. JS: Okay. And then which branch of the service did you join? ME: I joined the Navy. JS: And why did you pick the Navy? ME: Well, they had the nicest uniforms and they had, I thought, the nicest… JS: Okay. And when did you enlist? ME: In 1944. (04:38) JS: And once you enlist, how did that process work? I mean, first of all, how did you find out about the opportunity? ME: Oh, we had signs all over. Everybody was very war conscious. JS: And then, take us through the process. Where did you go to sign up, and then… ME: Chicago, Illinois. I was downtown and walked past the recruiting office and thought, I better see what that’s all about. So I went in and before I knew it, I was signed up. (smiles) JS: All right. Now once you were signed up, then what did you do? Where’d you go, or what kind of training did you get? �ME: Well, I had training before, commercial training. I went to commercial school. I had worked three years as a secretary, so they were glad to get help before they offered me help in the Navy. JS: So, where was the first place the Navy assigned you? ME: Bronx, New York, Hunter College, boot camp. JS: Okay… ME: For six weeks, then I went to Stillwater, Oklahoma. JS: Now what, what kind of boot camp did they give you? ME: Oh, that was great. Marched all over New York, it seemed like. In the rain and in the snow. (laughter) It was February. JS: What sort of people did they have training you? ME: Very competent. I envied those girls who were in charge of us. JS: Do you have any sense of how they ended up being in charge there? ME: Oh, I suppose…I don’t really know that. (06:04) JS: About how old were they? ME: Probably my age. I think most of them were college grads. JS: And they had just gotten in before you, and… ME: And I was only a high school grad, so we got the lower edge. JS: All right. Aside from marching you around a lot in the rain, what else did they do? ME: Oh, we learned about the Navy. We had lots of Navy regulations to learn, and we were given clothes, and learned how to march. We did a lot of that. JS: Okay. Now, having been in the Chicago area and having been in the city, we were already more, even though you had grown up around farms, you already had more exposure to big cities than most people had. What did you think of New York when you got there? (06:55) ME: Well, I tell you, we didn’t get out of there for six weeks. We stayed right there. And, then, I had a friend who came from Chicago and who showed me New York. For one weekend, which �was great. He was on a ship that happened to be stationed in port in New York, and so he just happened to be there at the same time I was. JS: So what did you go and see on that weekend? ME: Oh, music. What do you call it, Music… JS: Radio City… ME: Yeah. Radio City. He took me up in the Empire State Building. Just downtown New York. JS: All right. So you finish boot camp. Where do you go next? ME: I went to Stillwater, Oklahoma, to yeoman school. JS: Now, why was the Navy in Stillwater, Oklahoma? ME: That’s where the yeoman school was. They took over A & M University. JS: So what became Oklahoma State, eventually. ME: That’s right. (07:58) JS: Okay. And what sort of place was that? ME: Oh, wonderful. We had girls’ dorms. It was a good place to be. JS: Okay. Now what kind of training did you get in yeoman school? ME: Same thing I took before. Shorthand, typing, some more Navy regs. And we marched, and I guess, mostly discipline. JS: And what kind of women were in there with you? ME: Same like me. Some with more education, some with less. I would say. I found some good friends. JS: And how long do they have you there? ME: Three months. JS: Now did you get much of a chance while you were there to get off the base? ME: Oh, yeah. I went to Oklahoma City, and I went to the little town of Stillwater. �JS: So what was there to do around there? ME: Well, not much. We played pool a lot. (laughs) But I went to Oklahoma City almost every weekend because we had a service home there from our church. (09:06) JS: And, so, what did that mean in terms of what you could do, or what you could see… ME: I took a bus. And I stayed overnight with Reverend Bradt and his family. And I helped her entertain the soldiers that came there. And we fed them and all that sort of thing. JS: Okay. Now do you remember anything particular events or things that went on there, things that you remember in particular about being out in Oklahoma? ME: It was windy. We’d stand on the parade grounds and the wind would blow the hats and away they’d go and we couldn’t do a thing about it but watch them go. JS: Okay. What time of year were you there? ME: I was there from, oh, probably April. JS: April til July, something like that? ME: April til June, I left there. JS: So they moved you out before it got really hot. (10:08) ME: Yes. It wasn’t hot there. It was good weather. JS: All right. Now, once you finish yeoman school, where do they send you? ME: Washington, D.C., to the Bureau of Ships. JS: Okay. And what kind of work did you do there? ME: Secretary. Same thing I did before. JS: Okay. But secretarial work can cover a lot of different things, so… ME: We did ship repairs. Every port that the ship’s came into, had to have a copy of whatever went on in another report, so that if that ship came in there, they knew exactly what was done before. And I typed a lot of ship alts. JS: Okay. And what kinds of repairs seemed to happen most often? �(10:52) ME: Well, when they were bombed, the ships were bombed. And they’d come in for repairs. They’d been out in the water a long time and they’d come in for repairs. JS: Okay. Now, what kind of set up were you in? The Bureau of Ships, was that in… ME: That was a very big, temporary office right next to the Washington Monument. JS: Okay. And what kind of combination of people, or personnel were working there? Who were you working with? ME: I think half were civilians. Civil service people. The other half was Navy. JS: And what proportion of men to women? ME: Oh. I think less women than men. JS: Okay. And then what kind of office set up were you in? ME: Well, we had three officers who were the head of our section, and we took care of the troop ships. That was our section. And two of us girls worked there. The other girls was a civilian, and I was a yeoman. And men came in, officers came in and out. Very fast. I started to work with a Commander and pretty soon, he got to be a Captain, and so out he went, back to sea some place. And then they sent another fella in to be the head of the section, and then, so whoever came in, I worked for them. (12:15) ME: And finally a Captain came, a Commander came in and he was immediately promoted to a Captain, and a month later he was promoted to the head of the whole section. And so I went with him, I was his secretary. JS: Okay. Do you remember his name? ME: Captain Brady. JS: Now, with these officers coming in, were these guys who had been at sea already? ME: Some were. Some were ninety day wonders. (laughs) (12:54) JS: And what does that mean, for people who don’t know? ME: That means they were college grads and because of their education, they just got a rank immediately. �JS: And then they were sent directly from that, into your office. Was there a difference as far as you could tell, between the ninety days wonders and the other guys? ME: Sure, yeah. Those fellas who had been out to sea were hard core guys. JS: And how easy were they to work with, or get along with? ME: Okay. Very good. I had a wonderful boss. JS: And did they tell you anything about where they had been, or what they had done? Anything like that? (13:29) ME: Not much. Captain Brady didn’t talk much about his past, but he was a graduate from a Navy… JS: The Naval Academy in Annapolis? ME: Naval Academy, yes. So he had been in the Navy all his life. JS: About how old was he? ME: Oh, by that time, he was probably forty five. Of course, I was only twenty, so you know… JS: Yes, that was old. (laughter) ME: Yeah. JS: Now, what was life like in Washington at that point? ME: Oh, lots of service people. The streets were crowded with service people. JS: Where did you live? ME: I lived in the barracks, right next to the Lincoln Memorial. Between the Lincoln Memorial and the Potomac River. Right near the bridge to the Arlington Cemetery. (14:20) JS: And did you have to share a room with people, or… ME: We lived in cubicle and I shared with another girl. A cubicle. All we had was a cot and a desk and a closet. And a place to get in and out, that’s all. JS: ‘Cause housing was certainly scarce in Washington at that point. ME: Oh, yeah. �JS: Some of the people I’ve talked to had to share an apartment with six people and things like that. I don’t know. Did you like living in the barracks, or… ME: Well, it was very convenient and very beautiful. I walked to work. I started a half hour later than everybody else because I could stay a half hour longer. Because when they dealt with the west coast time change, and those fellas needed help after the rest went home. So I always stayed late. (15:14) JS: Okay. But they didn’t have people there around the clock? ME: Well, I suppose they had guards. I’m sure they did. JS: Yeah, but it was not a twenty-four, seven office at the time, like now? ME: No. JS: Okay. What were you able to do when you were off duty? ME: Anything we pleased. We got in every facility free because we were in uniform. Washington Monument, we walked in several times just because we were in uniform. And I started to make friends with people who lived there, and went to their homes quite a bit. On weekends. We were free on weekends. JS: Okay. And, did you meet any interesting young men to go out with, anything like that? ME: Oh, yeah, a lot of them. (laughs) That’s before I dragged my husband home. (16:09) JS: Okay. Now, when did you meet him? ME: I don’t know. What year was that? About 1945? Husband: ’44. ME: ’44. JS: And he was stationed in Washington at that time? ME: No. He came from Aberdeen, Maryland. Sometimes he was in Pennsylvania. For a while he was in Georgia. But he always managed to come back. (16:41) JS: What do you think was your favorite part about living in Washington at that point? �ME: I think it was exciting to be there. We saw everything that went on. President Roosevelt died while I was there. That was an exciting time. And we marched for that funeral. And, oh, I think anything else that went on, we were right up there, front and center. (17:10) JS: Now where you were, did any of the higher up, brass types come through, or did you mostly deal with the middle man office in the Bureau of Ships? ME: Only my officer, Captain Brady. He was the only one I really dealt with. JS: Now, describe for us what a typical day was like for you, working in the Bureau of Ships. ME: Oh, I’d walk to work and make coffee for the guys. I don’t know why I was always elected to make coffee, so…wash the dishes. Took dictation. My boss told a lot of stories. I did a lot of listening. (17:57) JS: What’d he tell stories about if… ME: Oh, his life. His family. He had several children, and… JS: Okay. And was it mostly a pretty busy place? ME: Oh, yeah. Very busy. We had about fifty people in just that one section. JS: Okay. And then, how long did you stay in that job? ME: The whole time I was there. JS: And then when did you finish? ME: February of 1946. JS: Okay. And what kind of work was there to do, sort of after the war was over? ME: Oh, pick up the pieces, I think. They seemed to carry on pretty much as before. There wasn’t much difference. JS: There was less battle damage, maybe. ME: That’s right. (18:50) JS: But you still had a lot of ships out there, to bring back. Repairs and maintenance to do. ME: We did a lot of work with the troop transport ships. With a lot of boys coming home. �JS: Are there other things about this work, kind of distinctive things that you remember, that stick with you, that you think back to. What now comes into your head? ME: I don’t know. I never dreaded going to work. I was always anxious to go in the morning. It was interesting. I didn’t type ship alts anymore. That was one good thing. (laughs) That was done with the other echelon. I had moved up with this Captain and his work was different. JS: Well, what kind of work did he have you do, as opposed to just the ship reports? (19:37) ME: Oh, I did a lot of letter writing for him. And he did a lot of, I think, his memoirs, that I typed for him. JS: Okay. And then what did you do after you left the service? ME: After I left the service, I went home to Elgin, Illinois. My parents had lived in Elgin. Got a job, as a secretary for Motorola. JS: And how long did you stay in that? ME: Oh, not very long, because George came home in May and we were married two weeks later, so…then we moved away. JS: And when do you come to Byron Center? ME: Oh, not until this past July. Took him sixty one years to get me to Byron Center. JS: That’s basically what we need there, so thank you very much for talking to us today. ME: It’s been good. Been a pleasure. (20:35) � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Veterans History Project Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. 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Title A name given to the resource Faces of Grand Valley Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource University Communications Description An account of the resource A non-comprehensive collection of photographs of Grand Valley faculty, staff, administrators, board members, friends, and alumni. Photos collected by University Communications for use in promotion and information sharing about Grand Valley with the wider community. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1960s - 1990s Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived GV012-03. University Communications. 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Special Collections and University Archives Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Language A language of the resource eng https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/ba362fe33a49cbd5e07020d50ca99fcd.mp4 32849bd13ec3a6b7d7dfcbda388dc961 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/63560dff04c6f82d42b4f4dbb16040a7.pdf e7f5e29442770dad6088b3c852a6216a PDF Text Text Grand Valley State University Veteran’s History Project Keith Edmondson World War II Interview Length: (00:54:54:00) Pre-enlistment / Training (00:00:17:00)  Edmondson was born in May 1924 in Wheaton, Illinois, but spent all his early years in nearby Glen Ellyn, Illinois (00:00:17:00) o While Edmondson was growing up, his father worked as a tailor in Chicago, which involved commuting two hours a day, one hour to Chicago and one hour to get home (00:00:30:00)  However, during the early part of the Great Depression, Edmondson’s father was unemployed for a year-and-a-half (00:00:47:00) o While Edmondson was a child, his grandfather, an immigrant from Norway, lived with Edmondson’s family, having retired from his job of working as a sailor for thirty years (00:00:55:00)  Edmondson’s grandfather did not have anything to do except play with Edmondson, so he taught Edmondson how to tie all the naval knots and told Edmondson sailing stories (00:01:05:00) o Edmondson had two siblings, an older brother who died when he was five or six years old and an older sister (00:01:19:00)  Edmondson graduated from high school in 1942, when he was eighteen years old, then started attending Purdue University the following fall (00:02:01:00) o On the Sunday the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Edmondson was at home and he heard of the radio that Pearl Harbor had been bombed (00:02:16:00)  The attack did not make too much of an impression on Edmondson at the time, although looking back, it probably should have (00:02:43:00) o While in high school, Edmondson worked as a paperboy and he remembers reading articles talking about the fighting in Europe, particularly the Fins fighting against the Russians (00:02:54:00)  However, Edmondson was not too invested in following the war in Europe, mostly because he had other things that occupied his time, such as picking colleges (00:03:13:00) o After the Japanese attack, Edmondson remembers being in a group of students that the school principal was addressing, explaining about the war in Europe and the attack on Pearl Harbor, and at one point the principal remarked that he thought few in the audience would end up serving in the military (00:03:27:00)  In November 1942, while at Purdue, Edmondson heard about a program called the Aviation Cadet Program, which interested Edmondson because the program offered him a deferment on serving in the military until the end of college (00:04:13:00) o Edmondson took the test for the program, did quite well, and was admitted into the program (00:04:36:00) o Unlike most of the other students in the program, Edmondson was not interested in becoming a pilot (00:04:58:00) �   However, only four months after Edmondson joined the Aviation Cadet Program, in February 1943, the program changed and Edmondson was enlisted into the military and sent to San Antonio, Texas (00:05:13:00) o Because Edmondson was still only eighteen years old, the entire experience was all sort of a big adventure (00:05:26:00) o To get to San Antonio, Edmondson first went to some place in Chicago, where he boarded a train that took him to San Antonio; by the time Edmondson and the other new recruits arrived in San Antonio, they were all pretty dirty because the trains were not kept very clean (00:05:33:00) o Once in San Antonio, Edmondson was assigned to a barracks located on an airfield; the barracks were a classification center, so Edmondson and the other recruits had to chose between the different occupations, such as being a pilot, a bombardier, a navigator, etc. (00:05:58:00)  Edmondson looked at the pilots training and saw the training would take fourteen months, as opposed to only six months for training for a bombardier; the pay difference between the two groups was small, so Edmondson elected to go through bombardier training (00:06:17:00)  A lot of the men who went through bombardier training with Edmondson were men who had washed out of the pilot training program (00:06:36:00) o While at the classification center, Edmondson and the other recruits also went through some physical training (00:06:51:00) Shortly after choosing the bombardier classification, Edmondson went to Ellington Field outside of Houston for pre-flight bombardier training (00:07:01:00) o Once at Ellington Field, Edmondson and the other recruits in pre-flight bombardier training went through more physical training, as well as book work, with instructors explain about different aspects of the Air Corps (00:07:26:00)  During the pre-flight training, Edmondson and the other recruits were able to travel into Houston (00:07:56:00) After the pre-flight training at Ellington Field, Edmondson went to Midland, Texas for the actual bombardier training (00:08:03:00) o During the bombardier training, Edmondson primarily learned how to operate an Norden bombsight, first on a trainer aircraft, then later aboard another aircraft, where Edmondson dropped legitimate practice bombs (00:08:13:00)  During practice bombing runs on the trainer aircraft, Edmondson would be aboard the aircraft with an instructor while on the ground, someone else would move a target; Edmondson objective was to get the crosshairs of the bombsight on the target for a certain amount of time (00:08:59:00)  The instructor kept track of everything Edmondson did, including where a bomb would have landed had the flight been a legitimate bombing run (00:09:28:00) o Edmondson stayed at Midland until August 1943, when he graduated from the bombardier training (00:09:43:00) o While at Midland, Edmondson and the other recruits had access to go into Midland, which was an interesting town because of the large number of cattle ranches in the surrounding (00:09:57:00) �   The recruits could go into town on the weekends and hear men talking about four thousand of this and four thousand of that; as it turned out, the men were talking about cattle (00:10:08:00) o Later in the training, Edmondson did bombing runs over “actual targets”, which were rings and he would drop 100 lb. bombs filled with sand, which would illustrate where the bombs landed (00:10:38:00)  Normally, these practice bombing runs happened around 10,000’ and were pretty useful in the training (00:11:07:00)  From his own estimation, Edmondson dropped almost all of his bombs within 50’ of the target, which was considered very good; good enough to become an instructor in the bombardier training (00:11:32:00) After leaving Midland, Edmondson was assigned to the Fourth Air Force, which was stationed along the west coast of the United States; initially, Edmondson was stationed at Mountain Home, Idaho as an instructor bombardier in a B-24 squadron (00:11:51:00) o Being an instructor bombardier consisted of Edmondson flying with bomb crews over targets and see how well the student bombardier could do in dropping bombs on targets (00:12:07:00)  Most of the practice bombs were the sand-filled 100 lb. bombs, although there were a few legitimate bombs dropped as well (00:12:23:00) o Edmondson spent a few months in Mountain Home before transferring to Tonopah, Nevada, which was also part of the Fourth Air Force, where he continued working as an instructor bombardier (00:12:32:00) o By this time, Edmondson is barely nineteen years old and although he found working as a bombardier interesting, the extracurricular activities at both Mountain Home and Tonopah were pretty grim (00:13:09:00)  In particular, aircraft taking off from the runway in Tonopah had to pass through a mountain pass and several aircraft ended up crashing into the mountains (00:13:26:00) o Eventually, a senior pilot at Tonopah, a major, wanted to form an air crew to deploy overseas, so he asked some of the more senior instructors and personnel working at the airfield, including Edmondson, to join the crew (00:13:58:00)  All the men who the major asked to join the crew said “yes”, so the air crew was formed for deployment overseas (00:14:35:00) o For the most part, at both Mountain Home and Tonopah, Edmondson was younger than most of the other instructors (00:14:58:00)  During the fall of 1942, the Air Corps began expanding in anticipation of what might happen during the war, which included building more airfields and pushing more men through training (00:15:25:00) After the major had successfully formed the air crew at Tonopah, the entire crew went to an airfield near Fairfield/Suisun City, California, picked up a new B-24 Liberator, and flew the bomber to Hawaii (00:16:06:00) o Once in Hawaii, the entire air crew went through gunnery training, which was in preparation for the crew heading into the combat area (00:16:28:00)  On most B-24s, the bombardier was the armament officer, although Edmondson did not take that job to seriously because all the other men on the bomber knew what they were doing (00:16:44:00) � During the gunnery training, the B-24 would fly out and strafe various locations, mostly around a deserted island and a location south of Maui (00:16:56:00) o For the couple of months that gunnery training lasted, the crew was stationed at an airfield near Kahuku, which was on the north side of Oahu (00:17:24:00)  On one side of the airfield was a pineapple plantation and on the other side was the cannery; it eventually reached the point that Edmondson could not stand to look at a pineapple (00:17:35:00) o Edmondson and the rest of the B-24 crew spent two or three months in Hawaii for the gunnery training, leaving in March 1944 (00:18:04:00) Deployment (00:18:44:00)  After leaving Hawaii, the B-24 first flew to Johnston Island, then continued to the base on Kwajalein Island, which was located in the Marshall Island chain (00:18:44:00) o Kwajalein was a circular atoll, which meant the “island” was essentially a sandbar that was big enough for an airfield to be built on it; the highest point on the entire atoll was only ten feet (00:19:01:00) o The 11th Bombardment Group, which the 98th Bombardment Squadron, which was Edmondson’s squadron, was a part of, had moved to Kwajalein from Tarawa a few weeks before Edmondson’s B-24 arrived (00:19:26:00)  Therefore, most of the other men in the squadron were experienced pilots that had done numerous operations (00:19:43:00) o During the first few missions Edmondson’s B-24 went on, his B-24 would “fly wing” as the squadron would attack the Japanese-held island of Truk (00:19:54:00)  During the attacks on Truk, the entire squadron of twelve bombers would fly in four flights of three bombers, with each flight having one bomber as the lead bomber and the other two bombers as his wingmen (00:20:20:00)  Until a crew had enough experience in combat, they would normally fly as the wingmen in a flight (00:20:54:00) o When the bombers would make their bombing runs, the bombardiers on each individual bomber were allowed to operate independently from the other bombers; the bombardier would set up a specific target and bomb that target while still keeping the bomber in formation (00:21:17:00)  Later in the war, the bombing method used in the European theater of only having the bombardier on the lead bomber using the bombsight spread over to the Pacific theater (00:21:28:00)  Once that method started being used, all the other bombardiers would drop their bombs based on the actions of the lead bombardier (00:21:38:00)  Although it probably was more difficult to make a bombing run against an actual target as opposed to what he had been doing in the United States, Edmondson was not really conscious of it (00:22:01:00)  Edmondson should have been more worried than he was but he was still just a kid and the entire experience was all still sort of a big adventure (00:22:07:00) � o o o o o o Once Edmondson became squadron bombardier, his claim to fame was he was good enough that he only had to do very short bombing runs; this meant the bombers were not flying straight and level for more than twenty or twenty-five seconds, which was considered very good (00:22:17:00) When the bombers did bombing runs against Truk, they encountered Japanese anti-aircraft fire, as well as some enemy fighters; however, because it was 1944, there was not much in the way of enemy fighters (00:22:39:00)  Before attacking Truk, the bombers would stage the attack from the island of Eniwetok, which was a short flight away from Truk; on Eniwetok, the bombers would re-fuel (00:22:51:00)  The attacks against Truk were largely meant to destroy Japanese airfields on the island or, at the very least, disrupt the Japanese Air Force’s ability to launch aircraft from those airfields (00:23:08:00)  The airfields on Truk were large, which meant the bombers did not have to be absolutely precise in their bombing runs (00:23:21:00)  During one of the missions against Truk, there was a radio station and small airstrip located on a nearby island and Edmondson’s B-24 dropped several 1000 lb. bombs, which managed to destroy both the airstrip and the radio station (00:23:28:00)  Normally during the bombing runs, the B-24s carried between twelve and sixteen 500 lb. bombs (00:23:53:00) Most of the attacks Edmondson was a part of consisted of one squadron making a bomb run at a time (00:24:02:00) Apart from Truk, the 98th Bombardment also attacked Wake Island and often, those missions were less than the entire squadron; in fact, during on of the missions to Wake, it was only Edmondson’s B-24 (00:24:07:00) On some of the missions, the B-24s had fighter escorts, although it did not happen too often; there was a squadron of P-38 fighters in the area and those fighters had enough range to stick with the B-24s during the bombing runs (00:24:34:00) However, most of the time, the bombers were by themselves and they would encounter a lot of enemy flak; by the time Edmondson’s B-24 was taking part in the attacks, flak was a significant danger to the bombers (00:24:43:00)  It was not often another bomber in the squadron was shot down during a mission; regardless, the bombers still took a lot of damage (00:25:01:00)  At one point, Edmondson received a Purple Heart, when during a mission, the bomber was approaching the target and a 20mm round from a Japanese Zero came into the bombardier compartment; luckily, the round wedged into the forward tire before detonating, otherwise, Edmondson might not have survived (00:25:07:00)  On a couple of occasions, the Norden bombsight was destroyed by flak, with Edmondson kneeling behind it (00:25:31:00)  During the missions over Truk, the squadron only lost one or two airplanes total (00:25:47:00) At a certain point during the bombing run, there was an automatic pilot component to the Norden that allowed Edmondson to take directly control of the bomber (00:26:13:00) �  However, Edmondson’s pilot was good and sometimes, he would maintain control of the bomber while following direction indicators mounted in the cockpit; other times, Edmondson would take direct control (00:26:21:00)  There was a significant amount of variance between what the bomber crews did during missions in the Pacific Theater as opposed to what the bomber crews during missions in the European theater (00:26:47:00) o Edmondson is unsure whether the major who formed Edmondson’s bomber crew knew about the differences in bomber crews between the two theaters and specifically managed to get the crew assigned to Pacific (00:26:54:00) o After about fifth or sixth mission, Edmondson’s bomber became the lead bomber for the squadron (00:27:13:00)  Whenever a specific bomber did a good job, the crew received letters of congratulations from the colonel commanding the 11th Bombardment Group; Edmondson’s bomber received about half-a-dozen of the letters (00:27:16:00)  Around the tenth or fifteenth mission, because Edmondson’s pilot was a major, he was promoted to squadron leader; at the time, the promotion was unusual because normally, a pilot with such little combat experience would not have been promoted to be a squadron leader (00:28:05:00) o Normally, the bombers would go on a mission every third day and in-between the missions, the men lived a very bachelor life (00:28:32:00)  Edmondson played a lot of volleyball and did a lot of swimming; all in all, Edmondson thought it was a relaxed, interesting life (00:28:46:00)  As the men flew more and more missions, they became more and more superstitious, such as only eating certain foods, always sitting a certain way during take off, etc. (00:29:07:00)  Some of the pilots were in their late 20s and Edmondson believes living on the island was tougher for them than it was for him (00:29:33:00)  When the squadron moved to Guam, the officers spent some of the time building an officer’s club (00:29:47:00) o Edmondson’s bomber was stationed on Kwajalein from March 1944 until October 1944; by the time his bomber left Kwajalein, Edmondson had gone on around twenty different missions (00:30:04:00) In October, Edmondson’s whole squadron moved from Kwajalein to the island of Guam, which was much bigger than Kwajalein (00:30:37:00) o Guam was located in the Marianas island chain, near the islands of Saipan and Tinian; Guam had previously been an American possession but was occupied by the Japanese and won back by the Marines before Edmondson’s squadron arrived on the island (00:30:43:00) o The airfield on Guam was a little bit longer than the airfield on Kwajalein, which was good for the take-offs (00:31:0:00) o From Guam, the bombers primarily attacked the Japanese-held island of Iwo Jima, mostly destroying the Japanese airfields on the island (00:31:26:00) �     A couple of days before the Marines’ invasion of the island, the bombers dropped incendiary bombs on the island’s beaches (00:31:38:00)  While flying over Iwo Jima, the bombers mostly encountered enemy flak, although there were some enemy fighters (00:31:59:00)  At the time of the bombing missions, the Japanese had two airfields already constructed and operating on Iwo Jima and they were in the process of building a third (00:32:24:00)  Once the Marines launched their invasion, the bombers stopped their bombing missions against the island, out of fear of accidentally hitting friendly forces on the ground (00:32:45:00) o After the bombers switched from bombing Iwo Jima, Edmondson cannot really remember where their bombing missions were, although he does remember doing some missions against the island of Palau (00:33:10:00) o When the men were not on duty, they could go swimming, go into a small town nearby, take classes, etc. (00:34:03:00)  For the most part, the men were counting missions and trying to get to forty, which meant they could go home (00:34:31:00)  At one point, the officers got a couple of bottles of liquor and a couple truckloads of lumber, so they began building an officer’s club; once the club was complete, the officers spent their time there (00:34:47:00)  There was a hospital on the island and on some occasions, nurses from the hospital would come to the club (00:35:01:00)  Because he was the squadron bombardier, Edmondson had additional, clerical work to do when not on duty; however, he does not remember it be too much of an effort (00:35:11:00) Different men in the squadron reached the forty mission plateau at different times, and once they reached the plateau, the men would rotate home; however, Edmondson’s crew was given the chance to rotate home after only thirty missions (00:35:35:00) At several different times, the men were able to take R&Rs back to Hawaii (00:35:54:00) o Aircraft would frequently fly back and forth from Guam to Hawaii and whenever someone was on R&R, he could just hop aboard on of those to get from one island to another (00:36:23:00) o The whole system of R&R did not seem very organized to Edmondson; to him, it seemed the system was “catch as catch can” (00:36:41:00) On both Kwajalein and Guam, the officers lived separate from the enlisted personnel, in barracks on Kwajalein and tents on Guam (00:37:06:00) o However, during the missions, there was camaraderie amongst the men and everyone respected everyone else and the job they were doing (00:37:23:00)  Edmondson himself became good friends with most of the enlisted men serving on his bomber (00:37:33:00) o Edmondson’s nickname amongst the crew was either “junior” or “kid” because he was young; however, the men respected Edmondson’s ability to make short bombing runs, so it was a mutual respect between he and other men (00:37:50:00) During a bombing run, the first thing Edmondson did, before the bombers even reached the target, was take wind readings using the bombsight, which was then feed into the �  bombsight, along with information about the size of the bombs being dropped and how high the bombers were (00:38:25:00) o Normally before a bombing run, the bombers would be flying at around 10,000’, which meant the crew did not need separate oxygen supplies (00:38:44:00) o The bombing missions were usually around ten hours long and once the bombers were about half-an-hour from the target, the bombardier would start timing and the bombers themselves would climb up to around 30,000’ (00:38:51:00) o The bombers would normally have a pre-selected approach to the target and each bombardier would know what his specific target was, based on the pre-mission briefings (00:39:04:00) o As soon as the bombers reached the desired approach, they would slowly turn as a squadron onto the approach, after which the bombardiers would pick up the targets and being adjusting the speed and altitude of the bomber (00:39:19:00) o Each bomber needed to be at a certain point in space at a certain time for the bomb to drop on the intended target; the problem is that enemy flak gunners on the ground can work the situation backwards and figure out exactly where the bombers needed to be to hit a specific target (00:39:37:00) o Once the bombardiers were prepared to drop the bombs, the bombers would continue on the approach and as they got closer to the target, the bombers would open their bomb-bay doors (00:39:58:00) o Once the bombers were over the target, the two sections of the bombsight would come together and instantly release the bombs (00:40:07:00)  There was a small wire on each bomb that kept the arming device from spinning, so that the only way the bombs would armed was when they were a couple 100’ outside of the bomber (00:40:18:00) o The bomber crews knew exactly how long it would take for the bombs to reach the ground, so they would watch to see what happened; however, most of the time, by the time the bombs impacted the ground, the bombers were already turning for the flight back to base (00:40:33:00) o The advantage of a short bomb run was that it gave the enemy gunners on the round less time to target the bombers (00:40:51:00) In late spring / early summer 1945, Edmondson’s squadron left Guam and moved to Okinawa (00:41:21:00) o When Edmondson’s squadron arrived at Yontan Airfield on Okinawa, the American ground forces had not yet fully wrested control of the island from the Japanese defenders (00:41:35:00)  For the most part, Yontan was secure, except for when a nearby ammunition dump was destroyed (00:41:52:00) o By the time his squadron had transferred to Okinawa, Edmondson had flown the majority of his missions; he ended up flying only one mission over Japan and was stationed on Okinawa for only a couple of months (00:42:27:00) While the squadron was still stationed on Guam, the co-pilot on Edmondson’s bomber was given command of a new bomber, which was subsequently shot down; the co-pilot managed to ditch the bomber and although the Navy was sent in to find the co-pilot, they never did (00:42:45:00) �   Apart from the Japanese 20mm round coming into the compartment and the destruction of a couple of bombsights, one time, Edmondson’s bomber was over a target when the bomber’s hydraulic system was shot out (00:43:22:00) o Once the bomber returned to base, the pilots could not lower the landing gear; although the crew was able to lower the landing gear via a crank, they had done that before and someone had forgotten to rewind the crank (00:43:39:00) o Ultimately, the bomber ended up having to land without wheels (00:43:56:00)  Before attempting the landing, the crew threw everything that was unnecessary out of the bomber and then everyone, save the pilot and copilot, gathered in the waist of the bomber and secured themselves as best they could (00:44:07:00)  Once the bomber was on the ground, it skidded for about 1,500 yards before coming to a stop; the crew, worried about the potential of a fire, quickly moved away (00:44:24:00) o Luckily, the landing did not disturb any of the propellers and within a week, someone was using the bomber to fly back to Hawaii (00:44:35:00) Edmondson does not remember the one mission he flew over Japan; it was close to the end of his tour and he was just hoping that something would not happen (00:44:56:00) o The mission took place in the latter part of July and Edmondson does remember that during the briefing, the crews were told to avoid bombing Hiroshima, which was near Kobe (00:45:09:00) While on Okinawa, the bomber crews slept in tents with small bomb shelters built next to them (00:45:31:00) o At one point, a Japanese bomber flew over the base at night to drop bombs and Edmondson remembers thinking how bad it would be to be killed at night, during a Japanese bombing run (00:45:41:00) End of Deployment / Post-Military Life / Reflections (00:45:56:00)  Once he completed his forty missions, Edmondson got transportation back to Hawaii; while Edmondson was at Hickam Field on Hawaii, the Americans dropped the two atomic bombs on Japan, which ended the war (00:45:56:00) o During his service, Edmondson had accumulated enough “points” from medals and missions that when he returned to Chicago, he was discharged from active duty, although the military did make an effort to get him to join the Air Force Reserves (00:46:11:00) o In September 1945, Edmondson returned to Chicago, was discharged from the military, married, and started back at Purdue (00:46:26:00)  Around the time his squadron moved from Kwajalein to Guam, Edmondson was able to come back to the United States for a couple of weeks on leave; the train from California to Chicago ran through Des Moines, Iowa, which was home of the University of Iowa, where Edmondson’s future wife was going to school (00:46:56:00)  When the train passed through Des Moines, Edmondson got off and proposed to his future wife; he and his future wife had gone to the same high school together, she a year younger, and they lived within three or four blocks of each other (00:47:07:00) �     o While Edmondson was deployed overseas, he wrote a lot of letters to her (00:47:33:00) o In hindsight, Edmondson did not know her too well when he proposed and vice versa; she had changed going while attending Iowa and he had changed from being in the service (00:47:39:00) While Edmondson was stationed on the various islands, he does not remember ever seeing any USO shows (00:48:15:00) While stationed on both Guam and Okinawa, Edmondson did see some of the local population, Guam in particular (00:48:34:00) o During the day, the men would take showers using 55 galleon drums and as local civilians would walk along a nearby road, the men would wave (00:48:41:00) o The civilians on Guam disliked the Japanese and were friendly to the men than the civilians on Okinawa; however, Edmondson was not on Okinawa long enough to really interact with the civilian population (00:49:14:00) Edmondson feels that his time spent overseas helped mature him; when he returned to Purdue, he was a lot better student (00:49:47:00) o Edmondson came out of the military neutral in his perception of the war; he did not have any great love of the war but on the flip side, he did not resent or object to what he went through (00:50:07:00)  Edmondson did not really experience the major losses of personnel that men serving in Europe did; all totaled, Edmondson’s squadron only lost two or three bombers the whole time he was there (00:50:22:00) When Edmondson returned to Purdue, he was not exactly sure what he would study; during his high school graduation, he had heard a science award, so he decided to look at science-related studies (00:50:54:00) o Edmondson eventually became interested in chemical engineering, so about six months after he returned to Purdue, he enrolled in the chemical engineering program at the university (00:51:08:00)  Ultimately, enrolling in the chemical engineering program turned out to be a good choice for Edmondson (00:51:18:00) o Edmondson’s wife had spent two years at Iowa and had changed her major several times before becoming pregnant, which caused her to not graduate from the university (00:51:24:00) o After Edmondson finished his undergraduate degree, he went through the graduate-level chemical engineering program; while he was a graduate student, Edmondson ended up working for the head of the program (00:51:56:00)  Edmondson finished his undergraduate degree in February 1948 and stayed for an extra year to finish his graduate degree (00:52:19:00)  Although Edmondson knew it would have been better to attend a different school for his graduate studies, there were enough things at Purdue to keep him there (00:52:28:00) After Edmondson finished his graduate degree, he met up with another student who had been a year ahead of him and who worked for the Upjohn Company, a large pharmaceutical company (00:52:52:00) �o The other man convinced Edmondson to apply at Upjohn; at the time, Edmondson had job offers from several different companies, including Upjohn, because at the time, there was a demand for chemical engineers (00:53:13:00) o Edmondson managed to get into Upjohn at a very good time and he has worked with the company for several years before transferring to International, where he eventually became head of the company’s chemical division (00:53:31:00) � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Veterans History Project Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. History Department Description An account of the resource The Library of Congress established the Veterans History Project in 2001 to collect memories, accounts, and documents of U.S. war veterans from World War II and the Korean War, Vietnam War, and conflicts in the Middle East and elsewhere, and to preserve these stories for future generations. The GVSU History Department interviews are part of this work-in-progress, and may contain videos and audio recordings, transcripts and interview outlines, and related documents and photographs. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1914- Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Subject The topic of the resource Afghan War, 2001--Personal narratives, American Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981--Personal narratives, American Korean War, 1950-1953--Personal narratives, American Michigan--History, Military Oral history Persian Gulf War, 1991--Personal narratives, American United States--History, Military United States. Air Force United States. Army United States. Navy Veterans Video recordings Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smither, James Boring, Frank Relation A related resource Veterans History Project (U.S.) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-27 Language A language of the resource eng Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/455">Veterans History Project interviews (RHC-27)</a> Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Edmondson, Keith (Interview outline and video), 2011 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Edmondson, Keith Description An account of the resource Keith Edmondson was born in 1924 in Wheaton, Illinois, and grew up in nearby Glen Ellyn. After graduating from high school, Edmondson began attending Purdue University the following fall, which was where he heard about the Aviation Cadet Program, which offered a deferment from military service until the end of school; however, in February 1943, the government changed the program and Edmondson enlisted in the Army Air Corps. He trained in Texas, Idaho and Nevada and was sent to the Pacific in 1944 as a bombardier on a B-24. After receiving additional training in Hawaii, Edmondson's crew deployed to the island of Kwajalein, located in the Marshall Island chain. While stationed on Kwajalein, Edmondson's B-24 participated in bombing attacks against the Japanese-held island of Truk. Eventually, Edmondson's squadron moved from Kwajalein to Guam, where they began launched bombing attacks against Japanese-held Iwo Jima. From there, he went on to Okinawa, where he completed his requisite forty missions and rotated home. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smither, James (Interviewer) Subject The topic of the resource Oral history Veterans History Project (U.S.) United States--History, Military Michigan--History, Military Veterans Video recordings United States. 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Davis Center for Women and Gender Equity Description An account of the resource Digitized posters, flyers, event notices, and other materials relating to gender expression and sexuality at Grand Valley State University, with materials spanning from 1974 to 2019. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1974/2019 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Digitized from collections at the Rainbow Resource Center (formerly the Milton E. Ford LGBT Resource Center), Women and Gender Studies Department, Women's Commission, and Gayle R. Davis Center for Women and Gender Equity. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright Subject The topic of the resource Gender identity Gender expression Sexual orientation Women's studies Queer theory Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. 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Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-09_SGF_WGS_2015_Stopping-WMichigans-Sex-Traffic.pdf Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource WGS 200: Introduction to Gender Studies, section 5 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2015-12-10 Title A name given to the resource Educate to Save: Stopping West Michigan's Sex Traffic Description An account of the resource Poster of the event, including a synopsis of it, as well as the location, time and date. 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Title A name given to the resource Edward Manley collection Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Manley, Edward Arthur, b. 1926 Worthington , Jean Allaine , b. 1928 Description An account of the resource A collection of letters and photographs from Edward "Ned" Manley, a soldier in the U.S. Army, and his girlfriend Jean Worthington, a teenage schoolgirl in Cleveland, Ohio, dating from 1945-1946. The content of Jean's letters describes everyday life of a teenage schoolgirl living in Cleveland, Ohio, with her parents during the war, including frequent mentions of friends, popular songs, movies, pets, and cooking, and visits to Edward's family, and her love for Edward. Edward's letters to Jean mostly concentrate on sentiments of love and the hope of marriage after the war. He also describes experiences and duties as he undergoes training with a variety of weapons and ordnance, his singing with a USO show, requests for transfer to the U.S. Army Air Corps, his volunteering for parachute infantry training, and descriptions of Nagoya during the American occupation of Japan. Both correspondents mention the anniversary of their first meeting (27 August 1943), and often use the word "Someday" in quotation marks which seems to refer to the then-popular song "Someday You'll Want Me to Want You." There is constant good-natured joking from both about the 28 children they will have once they are married. ean ("Jeannie") Allaine Worthington was born on 1 November 1928 in Cleveland, Ohio. Her parents were Archibald ("Archie") Augusta Worthington (1896-1979), a tool worker, and Lena L. Fritchell (1904-1985); she had one younger sister, Shirley C. Worthington (1934-2012). In 1945 and 1946 she was living with her parents at 14247 Superior Road, Cleveland Heights, Ohio. She met Edward Manley on 27 August 1943 in Cleveland when she was 14 and he was 16, but it does not seem likely they attended the same school. During 1945 she was attending high school and had a job after school. There is no evidence that they subsequently married; in Cleveland in 1971 or 1972 she married John Krasnicki, Sr. (1906-1986), who was twenty-two years her senior. She died on 8 September 1994 in Garfield Heights and is buried in Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland. Edward ("Ned") Arthur Manley was born on 25 December 1926 in Montréal, Quebec, Canada. His parents were Patrick Sanfield Manley (1895-1952), advertising manager for a Cleveland newspaper and Leonarda Gallagher Manley (1896-1970); he had five siblings: Edith Manley McNamara (1928-1958), John Vincent (1930-1988), Narda Patricia Daly (1931-2007), Alicia Ann Gramuglia (1932-2006), and Patrick A. (1934-2011). The family emigrated from Canada to the United States in the 1930s and by 1940 were living in Cleveland. Edward Manley enlisted in the U.S. Army as Private on 15 February 1945 in Cleveland; that same day he entrained for the Army Reception Center at Camp Atterbury, Indiana. In late February he had been assigned to Company B, 30th Battalion, 3rd Regiment at the Infantry Replacement Training Center at Fort McClellan, Alabama. A request to be transferred to the Army Air Corps was turned down. After a twelve-day furlough, Edward was transferred in late July to Company B-1-1, Army Ground Forces Replacement Depot No. 3 at Fort Riley, Kansas for a few days before being passed on to 3rd Platoon, Company M, 4th Regiment, Army Ground Forces Replacement Depot No. 2 at Fort Ord, California. In early August he was placed in 1st Platoon, Casual Company 12 in preparation for shipping out to Japan for occupation duties. By 13 September he was in Luzon in the Philippines as part of the 666 Replacement Company, A.P.O. 291, shortly to be assigned to Battery B, 8th Field Artillery Battalion, A.P.O. 25. Edward arrived in Japan in early October and was assigned to an antitank Company in the 27th Infantry Regiment. By the end of June 1946 he was still in Japan, but he repeats a rumor that they would be coming back the United States in October 1946. Manley was discharged in October 1946 and returned to California to find that Jean was engaged to be married to a man named "Shorty." Manley lost contact with Jean shortly thereafter. By 1952 he had moved to Los Angeles, California and at some point married Antoinette T. Manley (born 1940). They had one son, Darren Anthony Manley (born 1984). Edward applied for naturalization on 17 May 1945 in Anniston, Alabama while he was stationed at Fort McClellan, and became a U.S. citizen on 19 May 1945. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant World War II Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1945/1946 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/659">Edward Manley and Jean Worthington letters (RHC-116)</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Subject The topic of the resource Cleveland (Ohio) Correspondence United States. Army. Air Corps World War, 1939-1945 Military education Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-116 Language A language of the resource eng Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Edward "Ned" Manley in Army uniform, circa 1945 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Manley, Edward Arthur, b. 1926 Description An account of the resource Photograph of Edward "Ned" Manley standing in front of a bush in Army uniform Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant World War II Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/659">Edward Manley and Jean Worthington letters (RHC-116)</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Subject The topic of the resource Photographs United States. Army World War, 1939-1945 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives, 1 Campus Drive, Allendale, MI, 49401 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-116_Manley_photo-006 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1945 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/d157e580db0b93431f6af8cad80abcae.jpg 80d03646ae81c718c1072dc733ae0bd0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Edward Manley collection Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Manley, Edward Arthur, b. 1926 Worthington , Jean Allaine , b. 1928 Description An account of the resource A collection of letters and photographs from Edward "Ned" Manley, a soldier in the U.S. Army, and his girlfriend Jean Worthington, a teenage schoolgirl in Cleveland, Ohio, dating from 1945-1946. The content of Jean's letters describes everyday life of a teenage schoolgirl living in Cleveland, Ohio, with her parents during the war, including frequent mentions of friends, popular songs, movies, pets, and cooking, and visits to Edward's family, and her love for Edward. Edward's letters to Jean mostly concentrate on sentiments of love and the hope of marriage after the war. He also describes experiences and duties as he undergoes training with a variety of weapons and ordnance, his singing with a USO show, requests for transfer to the U.S. Army Air Corps, his volunteering for parachute infantry training, and descriptions of Nagoya during the American occupation of Japan. Both correspondents mention the anniversary of their first meeting (27 August 1943), and often use the word "Someday" in quotation marks which seems to refer to the then-popular song "Someday You'll Want Me to Want You." There is constant good-natured joking from both about the 28 children they will have once they are married. ean ("Jeannie") Allaine Worthington was born on 1 November 1928 in Cleveland, Ohio. Her parents were Archibald ("Archie") Augusta Worthington (1896-1979), a tool worker, and Lena L. Fritchell (1904-1985); she had one younger sister, Shirley C. Worthington (1934-2012). In 1945 and 1946 she was living with her parents at 14247 Superior Road, Cleveland Heights, Ohio. She met Edward Manley on 27 August 1943 in Cleveland when she was 14 and he was 16, but it does not seem likely they attended the same school. During 1945 she was attending high school and had a job after school. There is no evidence that they subsequently married; in Cleveland in 1971 or 1972 she married John Krasnicki, Sr. (1906-1986), who was twenty-two years her senior. She died on 8 September 1994 in Garfield Heights and is buried in Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland. Edward ("Ned") Arthur Manley was born on 25 December 1926 in Montréal, Quebec, Canada. His parents were Patrick Sanfield Manley (1895-1952), advertising manager for a Cleveland newspaper and Leonarda Gallagher Manley (1896-1970); he had five siblings: Edith Manley McNamara (1928-1958), John Vincent (1930-1988), Narda Patricia Daly (1931-2007), Alicia Ann Gramuglia (1932-2006), and Patrick A. (1934-2011). The family emigrated from Canada to the United States in the 1930s and by 1940 were living in Cleveland. Edward Manley enlisted in the U.S. Army as Private on 15 February 1945 in Cleveland; that same day he entrained for the Army Reception Center at Camp Atterbury, Indiana. In late February he had been assigned to Company B, 30th Battalion, 3rd Regiment at the Infantry Replacement Training Center at Fort McClellan, Alabama. A request to be transferred to the Army Air Corps was turned down. After a twelve-day furlough, Edward was transferred in late July to Company B-1-1, Army Ground Forces Replacement Depot No. 3 at Fort Riley, Kansas for a few days before being passed on to 3rd Platoon, Company M, 4th Regiment, Army Ground Forces Replacement Depot No. 2 at Fort Ord, California. In early August he was placed in 1st Platoon, Casual Company 12 in preparation for shipping out to Japan for occupation duties. By 13 September he was in Luzon in the Philippines as part of the 666 Replacement Company, A.P.O. 291, shortly to be assigned to Battery B, 8th Field Artillery Battalion, A.P.O. 25. Edward arrived in Japan in early October and was assigned to an antitank Company in the 27th Infantry Regiment. By the end of June 1946 he was still in Japan, but he repeats a rumor that they would be coming back the United States in October 1946. Manley was discharged in October 1946 and returned to California to find that Jean was engaged to be married to a man named "Shorty." Manley lost contact with Jean shortly thereafter. By 1952 he had moved to Los Angeles, California and at some point married Antoinette T. Manley (born 1940). They had one son, Darren Anthony Manley (born 1984). Edward applied for naturalization on 17 May 1945 in Anniston, Alabama while he was stationed at Fort McClellan, and became a U.S. citizen on 19 May 1945. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant World War II Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1945/1946 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/659">Edward Manley and Jean Worthington letters (RHC-116)</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Subject The topic of the resource Cleveland (Ohio) Correspondence United States. Army. Air Corps World War, 1939-1945 Military education Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-116 Language A language of the resource eng Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Edward "Ned" Manley in Military Police uniform leaning against a jeep, circa 1945 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Manley, Edward Arthur, b. 1926 Description An account of the resource Photograph of Edward "Ned" Manley in Military Police uniform leaning against a jeep, circa 1945 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant World War II Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/659">Edward Manley and Jean Worthington letters (RHC-116)</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Subject The topic of the resource Cleveland (Ohio); Correspondence; Military education; United States. Army. Air Corps; World War, 1939-1945 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives, 1 Campus Drive, Allendale, MI, 49401 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-116_Manley_photo-001 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1945 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/9a422224558766b6571ca443ea88d626.jpg b6ffa32ee61caddb26115a2a60c6e385 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Edward Manley collection Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Manley, Edward Arthur, b. 1926 Worthington , Jean Allaine , b. 1928 Description An account of the resource A collection of letters and photographs from Edward "Ned" Manley, a soldier in the U.S. Army, and his girlfriend Jean Worthington, a teenage schoolgirl in Cleveland, Ohio, dating from 1945-1946. The content of Jean's letters describes everyday life of a teenage schoolgirl living in Cleveland, Ohio, with her parents during the war, including frequent mentions of friends, popular songs, movies, pets, and cooking, and visits to Edward's family, and her love for Edward. Edward's letters to Jean mostly concentrate on sentiments of love and the hope of marriage after the war. He also describes experiences and duties as he undergoes training with a variety of weapons and ordnance, his singing with a USO show, requests for transfer to the U.S. Army Air Corps, his volunteering for parachute infantry training, and descriptions of Nagoya during the American occupation of Japan. Both correspondents mention the anniversary of their first meeting (27 August 1943), and often use the word "Someday" in quotation marks which seems to refer to the then-popular song "Someday You'll Want Me to Want You." There is constant good-natured joking from both about the 28 children they will have once they are married. ean ("Jeannie") Allaine Worthington was born on 1 November 1928 in Cleveland, Ohio. Her parents were Archibald ("Archie") Augusta Worthington (1896-1979), a tool worker, and Lena L. Fritchell (1904-1985); she had one younger sister, Shirley C. Worthington (1934-2012). In 1945 and 1946 she was living with her parents at 14247 Superior Road, Cleveland Heights, Ohio. She met Edward Manley on 27 August 1943 in Cleveland when she was 14 and he was 16, but it does not seem likely they attended the same school. During 1945 she was attending high school and had a job after school. There is no evidence that they subsequently married; in Cleveland in 1971 or 1972 she married John Krasnicki, Sr. (1906-1986), who was twenty-two years her senior. She died on 8 September 1994 in Garfield Heights and is buried in Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland. Edward ("Ned") Arthur Manley was born on 25 December 1926 in Montréal, Quebec, Canada. His parents were Patrick Sanfield Manley (1895-1952), advertising manager for a Cleveland newspaper and Leonarda Gallagher Manley (1896-1970); he had five siblings: Edith Manley McNamara (1928-1958), John Vincent (1930-1988), Narda Patricia Daly (1931-2007), Alicia Ann Gramuglia (1932-2006), and Patrick A. (1934-2011). The family emigrated from Canada to the United States in the 1930s and by 1940 were living in Cleveland. Edward Manley enlisted in the U.S. Army as Private on 15 February 1945 in Cleveland; that same day he entrained for the Army Reception Center at Camp Atterbury, Indiana. In late February he had been assigned to Company B, 30th Battalion, 3rd Regiment at the Infantry Replacement Training Center at Fort McClellan, Alabama. A request to be transferred to the Army Air Corps was turned down. After a twelve-day furlough, Edward was transferred in late July to Company B-1-1, Army Ground Forces Replacement Depot No. 3 at Fort Riley, Kansas for a few days before being passed on to 3rd Platoon, Company M, 4th Regiment, Army Ground Forces Replacement Depot No. 2 at Fort Ord, California. In early August he was placed in 1st Platoon, Casual Company 12 in preparation for shipping out to Japan for occupation duties. By 13 September he was in Luzon in the Philippines as part of the 666 Replacement Company, A.P.O. 291, shortly to be assigned to Battery B, 8th Field Artillery Battalion, A.P.O. 25. Edward arrived in Japan in early October and was assigned to an antitank Company in the 27th Infantry Regiment. By the end of June 1946 he was still in Japan, but he repeats a rumor that they would be coming back the United States in October 1946. Manley was discharged in October 1946 and returned to California to find that Jean was engaged to be married to a man named "Shorty." Manley lost contact with Jean shortly thereafter. By 1952 he had moved to Los Angeles, California and at some point married Antoinette T. Manley (born 1940). They had one son, Darren Anthony Manley (born 1984). Edward applied for naturalization on 17 May 1945 in Anniston, Alabama while he was stationed at Fort McClellan, and became a U.S. citizen on 19 May 1945. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant World War II Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1945/1946 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/659">Edward Manley and Jean Worthington letters (RHC-116)</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Subject The topic of the resource Cleveland (Ohio) Correspondence United States. Army. Air Corps World War, 1939-1945 Military education Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-116 Language A language of the resource eng Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Edward "Ned" Manley in uniform holding a letter, circa 1945 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Manley, Edward Arthur, b. 1926 Description An account of the resource Photograph of Edward "Ned" Manley wearing his U.S. Army uniform and holding a letter Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant World War II Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/659">Edward Manley and Jean Worthington letters (RHC-116)</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Subject The topic of the resource Photographs United States. Army World War, 1939-1945 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives, 1 Campus Drive, Allendale, MI, 49401 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-116_Manley_photo-003 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1945 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/825e6f967ca1d00e9e2f236a0169f7e8.jpg b32deed75066291fa00fd6dd3eab42b6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Edward Manley collection Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Manley, Edward Arthur, b. 1926 Worthington , Jean Allaine , b. 1928 Description An account of the resource A collection of letters and photographs from Edward "Ned" Manley, a soldier in the U.S. Army, and his girlfriend Jean Worthington, a teenage schoolgirl in Cleveland, Ohio, dating from 1945-1946. The content of Jean's letters describes everyday life of a teenage schoolgirl living in Cleveland, Ohio, with her parents during the war, including frequent mentions of friends, popular songs, movies, pets, and cooking, and visits to Edward's family, and her love for Edward. Edward's letters to Jean mostly concentrate on sentiments of love and the hope of marriage after the war. He also describes experiences and duties as he undergoes training with a variety of weapons and ordnance, his singing with a USO show, requests for transfer to the U.S. Army Air Corps, his volunteering for parachute infantry training, and descriptions of Nagoya during the American occupation of Japan. Both correspondents mention the anniversary of their first meeting (27 August 1943), and often use the word "Someday" in quotation marks which seems to refer to the then-popular song "Someday You'll Want Me to Want You." There is constant good-natured joking from both about the 28 children they will have once they are married. ean ("Jeannie") Allaine Worthington was born on 1 November 1928 in Cleveland, Ohio. Her parents were Archibald ("Archie") Augusta Worthington (1896-1979), a tool worker, and Lena L. Fritchell (1904-1985); she had one younger sister, Shirley C. Worthington (1934-2012). In 1945 and 1946 she was living with her parents at 14247 Superior Road, Cleveland Heights, Ohio. She met Edward Manley on 27 August 1943 in Cleveland when she was 14 and he was 16, but it does not seem likely they attended the same school. During 1945 she was attending high school and had a job after school. There is no evidence that they subsequently married; in Cleveland in 1971 or 1972 she married John Krasnicki, Sr. (1906-1986), who was twenty-two years her senior. She died on 8 September 1994 in Garfield Heights and is buried in Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland. Edward ("Ned") Arthur Manley was born on 25 December 1926 in Montréal, Quebec, Canada. His parents were Patrick Sanfield Manley (1895-1952), advertising manager for a Cleveland newspaper and Leonarda Gallagher Manley (1896-1970); he had five siblings: Edith Manley McNamara (1928-1958), John Vincent (1930-1988), Narda Patricia Daly (1931-2007), Alicia Ann Gramuglia (1932-2006), and Patrick A. (1934-2011). The family emigrated from Canada to the United States in the 1930s and by 1940 were living in Cleveland. Edward Manley enlisted in the U.S. Army as Private on 15 February 1945 in Cleveland; that same day he entrained for the Army Reception Center at Camp Atterbury, Indiana. In late February he had been assigned to Company B, 30th Battalion, 3rd Regiment at the Infantry Replacement Training Center at Fort McClellan, Alabama. A request to be transferred to the Army Air Corps was turned down. After a twelve-day furlough, Edward was transferred in late July to Company B-1-1, Army Ground Forces Replacement Depot No. 3 at Fort Riley, Kansas for a few days before being passed on to 3rd Platoon, Company M, 4th Regiment, Army Ground Forces Replacement Depot No. 2 at Fort Ord, California. In early August he was placed in 1st Platoon, Casual Company 12 in preparation for shipping out to Japan for occupation duties. By 13 September he was in Luzon in the Philippines as part of the 666 Replacement Company, A.P.O. 291, shortly to be assigned to Battery B, 8th Field Artillery Battalion, A.P.O. 25. Edward arrived in Japan in early October and was assigned to an antitank Company in the 27th Infantry Regiment. By the end of June 1946 he was still in Japan, but he repeats a rumor that they would be coming back the United States in October 1946. Manley was discharged in October 1946 and returned to California to find that Jean was engaged to be married to a man named "Shorty." Manley lost contact with Jean shortly thereafter. By 1952 he had moved to Los Angeles, California and at some point married Antoinette T. Manley (born 1940). They had one son, Darren Anthony Manley (born 1984). Edward applied for naturalization on 17 May 1945 in Anniston, Alabama while he was stationed at Fort McClellan, and became a U.S. citizen on 19 May 1945. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant World War II Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1945/1946 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/659">Edward Manley and Jean Worthington letters (RHC-116)</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Subject The topic of the resource Cleveland (Ohio) Correspondence United States. Army. Air Corps World War, 1939-1945 Military education Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-116 Language A language of the resource eng Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Edward "Ned" Manley in uniform in Japan, circa 1945 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Manley, Edward Arthur, b. 1926 Description An account of the resource Photograph of Edward "Ned" Manley in U.S. Army uniform in front of a tall building in Japan. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant World War II Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/659">Edward Manley and Jean Worthington letters (RHC-116)</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Subject The topic of the resource Photographs United States. Army World War, 1939-1945 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives, 1 Campus Drive, Allendale, MI, 49401 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-116_Manley_photo-002 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1945 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/dafe6e0d0754724b107a53d2fba594aa.jpg 93e16c9273807c3fec4ba59ec8958737 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Edward Manley collection Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Manley, Edward Arthur, b. 1926 Worthington , Jean Allaine , b. 1928 Description An account of the resource A collection of letters and photographs from Edward "Ned" Manley, a soldier in the U.S. Army, and his girlfriend Jean Worthington, a teenage schoolgirl in Cleveland, Ohio, dating from 1945-1946. The content of Jean's letters describes everyday life of a teenage schoolgirl living in Cleveland, Ohio, with her parents during the war, including frequent mentions of friends, popular songs, movies, pets, and cooking, and visits to Edward's family, and her love for Edward. Edward's letters to Jean mostly concentrate on sentiments of love and the hope of marriage after the war. He also describes experiences and duties as he undergoes training with a variety of weapons and ordnance, his singing with a USO show, requests for transfer to the U.S. Army Air Corps, his volunteering for parachute infantry training, and descriptions of Nagoya during the American occupation of Japan. Both correspondents mention the anniversary of their first meeting (27 August 1943), and often use the word "Someday" in quotation marks which seems to refer to the then-popular song "Someday You'll Want Me to Want You." There is constant good-natured joking from both about the 28 children they will have once they are married. ean ("Jeannie") Allaine Worthington was born on 1 November 1928 in Cleveland, Ohio. Her parents were Archibald ("Archie") Augusta Worthington (1896-1979), a tool worker, and Lena L. Fritchell (1904-1985); she had one younger sister, Shirley C. Worthington (1934-2012). In 1945 and 1946 she was living with her parents at 14247 Superior Road, Cleveland Heights, Ohio. She met Edward Manley on 27 August 1943 in Cleveland when she was 14 and he was 16, but it does not seem likely they attended the same school. During 1945 she was attending high school and had a job after school. There is no evidence that they subsequently married; in Cleveland in 1971 or 1972 she married John Krasnicki, Sr. (1906-1986), who was twenty-two years her senior. She died on 8 September 1994 in Garfield Heights and is buried in Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland. Edward ("Ned") Arthur Manley was born on 25 December 1926 in Montréal, Quebec, Canada. His parents were Patrick Sanfield Manley (1895-1952), advertising manager for a Cleveland newspaper and Leonarda Gallagher Manley (1896-1970); he had five siblings: Edith Manley McNamara (1928-1958), John Vincent (1930-1988), Narda Patricia Daly (1931-2007), Alicia Ann Gramuglia (1932-2006), and Patrick A. (1934-2011). The family emigrated from Canada to the United States in the 1930s and by 1940 were living in Cleveland. Edward Manley enlisted in the U.S. Army as Private on 15 February 1945 in Cleveland; that same day he entrained for the Army Reception Center at Camp Atterbury, Indiana. In late February he had been assigned to Company B, 30th Battalion, 3rd Regiment at the Infantry Replacement Training Center at Fort McClellan, Alabama. A request to be transferred to the Army Air Corps was turned down. After a twelve-day furlough, Edward was transferred in late July to Company B-1-1, Army Ground Forces Replacement Depot No. 3 at Fort Riley, Kansas for a few days before being passed on to 3rd Platoon, Company M, 4th Regiment, Army Ground Forces Replacement Depot No. 2 at Fort Ord, California. In early August he was placed in 1st Platoon, Casual Company 12 in preparation for shipping out to Japan for occupation duties. By 13 September he was in Luzon in the Philippines as part of the 666 Replacement Company, A.P.O. 291, shortly to be assigned to Battery B, 8th Field Artillery Battalion, A.P.O. 25. Edward arrived in Japan in early October and was assigned to an antitank Company in the 27th Infantry Regiment. By the end of June 1946 he was still in Japan, but he repeats a rumor that they would be coming back the United States in October 1946. Manley was discharged in October 1946 and returned to California to find that Jean was engaged to be married to a man named "Shorty." Manley lost contact with Jean shortly thereafter. By 1952 he had moved to Los Angeles, California and at some point married Antoinette T. Manley (born 1940). They had one son, Darren Anthony Manley (born 1984). Edward applied for naturalization on 17 May 1945 in Anniston, Alabama while he was stationed at Fort McClellan, and became a U.S. citizen on 19 May 1945. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant World War II Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1945/1946 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/659">Edward Manley and Jean Worthington letters (RHC-116)</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Subject The topic of the resource Cleveland (Ohio) Correspondence United States. Army. Air Corps World War, 1939-1945 Military education Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-116 Language A language of the resource eng Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Edward "Ned" Manley leaning on Military Police jeep, circa 1945 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Manley, Edward Arthur, b. 1926 Description An account of the resource Photograph of Edward "Ned" Manley leaning on Military Police jeep Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant World War II Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/659">Edward Manley and Jean Worthington letters (RHC-116)</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Subject The topic of the resource Photographs United States. Army World War, 1939-1945 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives, 1 Campus Drive, Allendale, MI, 49401 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-116_Manley_photo-005 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1945 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/e484ffd6c80e6151ad18a2f8f5ff766d.jpg 0666ff6f572aa08c83efe83f93acd59d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Grand Valley State University Photographs Subject The topic of the resource Aerial photographs Universities and colleges Michigan Grand Rapids (Mich.) Allendale (Mich.) Building Facilities Dormitories Students Events 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s Description An account of the resource People, places, and events of Grand Valley State University from its founding in 1960 as a 4-year college in western Michigan. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource News & Information Services. University Communications Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/41">News &amp; Information Services. University Photographs. (GV012-01)</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-03-03 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-NC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpg Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GV012-01 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1960s-2000s Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Local Subject Subject headings specific to a particular image collection 1960s Source <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/41">University photographs, GV012-01</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GV012-01_UAPhotos_001422 Title A name given to the resource Edward Lenoir uses the microscope in a demonstration to med tech students in clinical microbiology class Description An account of the resource Edward Lenoir, GVSU alumnus from 1968, uses the microscope in a demonstration to med tech students in clinical microbiology class held in a Hackley Hospital, Muskegon lab. Subject The topic of the resource Grand Valley State University Grand Valley State College Michigan Allendale (Mich.) Universities & colleges-Michigan--Allendale Biology Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-NC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives black and white photo https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/87f4098d1797ffd860b84dde085813df.pdf 057239aa8cf74ca6c893801af5ba729b PDF Text Text �� https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/0ecb3a11c67588aed99215339d3ac19b.pdf f05adc05b2124f6ed374d62d3aec5a8d PDF Text Text [?] 20 April ‘62 My dear Sir, I will thank you to direct the ordinance officer to send me without delay to this place, a copy of the contract made with Boker, for [?], with his directions for working it; and also, to find me a copy of Mr. Holt’s report thereon, which I see commented upon to my discredit in the newspapers. Knowing that I did no wrong, I am not willing to leave the country without trying to convince my loyal fellow citizens, of the integrity as well as wisdom of my conduct, in all related to furnishing our soldiers with arms often my predictions had inferred them to be �stolen from the arsenals. Expecting to be in Washington Tuesday morning. If you can allow me an early interview you will expedite my return to my home & greatly oblige me. Very truly yours, Simon Cameron � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Civil War and Slavery Collection Subject The topic of the resource United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 Slavery--United States African Americans United States--Politics and government--19th century Description An account of the resource A selection of correspondence, diaries, official documents, photographs related to the American Civil War and to the institution of slavery, collected by Harvey E. Lemmen. The collection includes a selection of documents from ten states related to the ownership of slaves and abolition, correspondence and documents of soldiers who fought in the war and from family members and officials, diaries and letters of individuals, and a collection of mailing envelopes decorated with patriotic imagery. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Lemmen, Harvey E. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/472">Civil War and Slavery Collection (RHC-45)<br /></a><a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/470">John Bennitt Diaries and Correspondence (RHC-43)<br /></a><a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/471">Nathan Sargent Papers (RHC-44)<br /></a><a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/478">Theodore Peticolas Diary (RHC-51)<br /></a><a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/476">Civil War Patriotic Envelopes Collection (RHC-51)<br /></a><a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/479">Whitely Read Diary (RHC-52)</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1804-1897 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en">No Copyright - United States</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpg; application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Image; Text Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1804-1897 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-45_CW1-4383 Title A name given to the resource Edwin M. Stanton from Simon Cameron Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1862-04-20 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Cameron, Simon, 1799-1889 Subject The topic of the resource Cameron, Simon, 1799-1889 Stanton, Edwin M. (Edwin McMasters), 1814-1869 Boker, George H. (George Henry), 1823-1890 Holt, Joseph, 1807-1894 United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 United States--Politics and government--19th century Correspondence Washington (D.C.) Description An account of the resource Letter from former Secretary of War Simon Cameron requesting Stanton's assistance in helping to prove his innocence against charges of fraud via mutilation of treasury bills, in relation to the purchasing of arms. Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en">No Copyright - United States</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Civil War and slavery collection (RHC-45): http://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/472 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/98765c985edaac114094cafe3dece5ae.jpg 3ca9662f4ad2b45a59f16dbc2295ee48 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Grand Valley State University Photographs Subject The topic of the resource Aerial photographs Universities and colleges Michigan Grand Rapids (Mich.) Allendale (Mich.) Building Facilities Dormitories Students Events 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s Description An account of the resource People, places, and events of Grand Valley State University from its founding in 1960 as a 4-year college in western Michigan. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource News & Information Services. University Communications Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/41">News &amp; Information Services. University Photographs. (GV012-01)</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-03-03 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-NC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpg Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GV012-01 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1960s-2000s Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Local Subject Subject headings specific to a particular image collection 1960s Source <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/41">University photographs, GV012-01</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GV012-01_UAPhotos_001092 Title A name given to the resource Edythe Bolthouse? Description An account of the resource Edythe Bolthouse? Subject The topic of the resource Grand Valley State University Michigan Allendale (Mich.) Universities and colleges Students Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-NC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives black and white photo https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/155758eab29fcfd2c824911e25e67b9b.jpg 08037d3bc470543cfc2765b70eb6231e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Decorated Publishers' Bindings Subject The topic of the resource Book covers Covers (Illustration) Graphic arts Publishers and publishing Pictorial bindings Description An account of the resource From the early 1870s to roughly 1930, many publishers issued their commercial book covers with a remarkable variety of graphic designs and illustrations. This sixty-year period saw many artists and designers contributing to this art form. While some can be identified from their style or initials, others remain unknown. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Seidman Rare Books Collection Michigan Novels Collection Regional Historical Collection Lincoln and the Civil War Collection Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-08-30 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a>, <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en">No Copyright - United States</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpg Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-01 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Source Seidman Rare Books. PR4262 .E33 1896 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-01_Bindings0110 Title A name given to the resource Effie Hetherington Description An account of the resource Binding of Effie Hetherington, by Robert Williams Buchanan, published by Roberts, 1896. Subject The topic of the resource Book covers Covers (Illustration) Graphic arts Publishers and publishing Pictorial bindings Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en">No Copyright - United States</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1896 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/07f5d68272911ae738b4a89b268fb5c0.jpg 6ee5a19cd84e79919de0e06e3caefd3f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Faces of Grand Valley Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource University Communications Description An account of the resource A non-comprehensive collection of photographs of Grand Valley faculty, staff, administrators, board members, friends, and alumni. Photos collected by University Communications for use in promotion and information sharing about Grand Valley with the wider community. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1960s - 1990s Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived GV012-03. University Communications. Vita Files Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copryight Subject The topic of the resource Grand Valley State University College administrators College teachers Colleges and universities -- Faculty Michigan Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. Special Collections and University Archives Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GV012-03 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Language A language of the resource eng Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context EhlersVern_Photo01 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. University Communications Title A name given to the resource Ehlers, Vern Description An account of the resource Vern Ehlers, Member of the United States House of Representatives, GVSU Honorary Degree recipient Subject The topic of the resource Grand Valley State University – History Michigan Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived University Communications. Vita Files, 1968-2016 (GV012-03) Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. Special Collections and University Archives Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Language A language of the resource eng