Knight, Merle (Interview transcript and video), 2004
subject: Oral history
subject: Veterans History Project (U.S.)
subject: United States--History, Military
subject: Michigan--History, Military
subject: Veterans
subject: Video recordings
subject: World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American
subject: United States. Naval Reserve. Women's Reserve
description: Merle Knight served in the Navy WAVES during World War II. She was a volunteer who spent all her time on the East Coast of the US, primarily at a naval air station. Although she wanted to go to serve in Pearl Harbor, she would change her mind due to the war ending
creator: Knight, Merle
source: Veterans History Project Collection, (RHC-27)
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
date: 2004-04-12
contributor: Steffens, Brittney (Interviewer)
rights: In Copyright
relation: Veterans History Project (U.S.)
format: application/pdf
format: video/mp4
language: eng
type: Moving Image
type: Text

Knight, Robert James (Interview outline and video), 2016
subject: Oral history
subject: Veterans History Project (U.S.)
subject: United States--History, Military
subject: Veterans
subject: Video recordings
subject: Other veterans & civilians--Personal narratives, American
subject: United States. Air Force
description: Robert Knight was born in Decatur, Michigan on March 28, 1933. He enlisted in the Air Force on March 3, 1953 and received his basic training at Sampson Air Force Base, New York. He received property accounting and material services training at Francis E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming and then went on to Patrick Air Force Base, Florida where he was assigned to the 1st Pilotless Bomber Squadron. The squadron was attached to the 36th Fighter-Bomber Wing and was deployed to Bitburg Air Base, West Germany, in March 1954. He worked in the supply section at the base, went on maneuvers, and went to Wheelus Air Base, Libya for missile testing in the Sahara Desert. He left Bitburg Air Base in December 1956 and was discharged in New York in that same month.
creator: Knight, Robert
source: Veterans History Project collection, (RHC-27)
publisher: Grand Valley State University Libraries. Allendale, Michigan
date: 2016-03-31
contributor: Erichsen, Wallace (Interviewer)
rights: In Copyright
relation: Veterans History Project (U.S.)
format: video/x-m4v
format: application/pdf
type: Moving Image
type: Text

Kniskern, Jan
subject: Grand Valley State University – History
subject: College teachers
subject: Universities and colleges – Faculty
subject: Michigan
description: Jan Kniskern, Nursing
creator: Grand Valley State University. University Communications
source: University Communications. Vita Files, 1968-2016 (GV012-03)
publisher: Grand Valley State University. Special Collections and University Archives
rights: In Copyright
format: image/jpeg
language: eng
type: Image

Knott, Andrew Thomas (Interview outline), 2015
subject: Oral history
subject: Veterans History Project (U.S.)
subject: United States--History, Military
subject: Michigan--History, Military
subject: Veterans
subject: Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American
subject: United States. Army
description: Andrew Knott was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan on September 5th, 1940. In July of 1961 he was drafted in the period just before the Vietnam War. Entering the Army, he was sent to Fort Knox, Kentucky for basic training and Fort Carson, Colorado for artillery training. In the 5th Infantry Division he was a cook. In his time in the military he went on several maneuvers and experienced the threat of the Cuban Missile Crisis. In July 1963 he was discharged and left the military.
creator: Knott, Andrew Thomas
source: Veterans History Project collection, (RHC-27)
publisher: Grand Valley State University Libraries. Allendale, Michigan
date: 2015-05-23
contributor: Knott, Jonathan (Interviewer)
rights: In Copyright
relation: Veterans History Project (U.S.)
format: application/pdf
language: eng
type: Text

Kodacolor Print Red Barn Theatre
subject: Michigan
subject: Saugatuck (Mich.)
subject: Douglas (Mich.)
subject: Community theater
description: A photograph of the Red Barn Theatre that has extensive visual distortion. On the side, there is a Kodacolor Print stamp and along the bottom of the photo, the Kodak Safety Film number is listed.
source: Digital file collected by the Kutsche Office of Local History from the Saugatuck Douglas History Center for the Stories of Summer project.
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
date: 1966
rights: Copyright Undetermined
relation: Stories of Summer (project)
format: image/jpeg
language: eng
type: Image

Koedoot, Herbert
subject: Grand Valley State University – History
subject: College teachers
subject: Universities and colleges – Faculty
subject: Michigan
description: Herbert Koedoot, Business Admin
creator: Grand Valley State University. University Communications
source: University Communications. Vita Files, 1968-2016 (GV012-03)
publisher: Grand Valley State University. Special Collections and University Archives
rights: In Copyright
format: image/jpeg
language: eng
type: Image

Koehl, Philip (Interview transcript and video), 2019
subject: Oral history
subject: Veterans History Project (U.S.)
subject: United States—History, Military
subject: Veterans
subject: Video recordings
subject: World War, 1939-1945—Personal narratives, American
description: Philip Koehl was born in 1953 in Oak Park, Illinois. Koehl grew up with his family in the Northwest side of Chicago. Koehl’s father was a truck driver, his stepfather a carpenter, and his mother owned a pet store which Koehl eventually got a job at. After graduating from Lane Tech High School, where he participated in ROTC, in 1971, Koehl then got a job working at a steel training plant. However, Koehl eventually enlisted in the Air Force April 2, 1973. Basic training took place at Lackland air base in San Antonio, Texas. It was after this training when Koehl went down to Goodfellow Air Force Base in San Angelo, Texas and began receiving specialized training for his position as a radio communications analysis specialist. After finishing technical training Koehl was given the opportunity to travel to a variety of different locations and ended up at Chicksand Air Force Base in England. Koehl stayed here until April of 1974 when he was discharged from the service. Upon his leave, Koehl returned to school and got his Master of Social Work. He then worked as a social worker for his career up until his retirement in 2010.
creator: Koehl, Philip C. II
source: Veterans History Project collection, (RHC-27)
publisher: Grand Valley State University Libraries, Special Collections & University Archives, 1 Campus Drive, Allendale, MI, 49401.
date: 2019-08
contributor: Smither, James (Interviewer)
rights: In Copyright
relation: Veterans History Project (U.S.)
format: video/mp4
format: application/pdf
language: eng
type: Moving Image
type: Text

Koetje, Bill (Interview outline and video), 2010
subject: Oral history
subject: Veterans History Project (U.S.)
subject: United States--History, Military
subject: Michigan--History, Military
subject: Veterans
subject: Video recordings
subject: World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American
subject: United States. Army
description: Bill Koetje served in the Army during World War II. He was drafted in 1942 and initially trained as a paratrooper, but was not yet 21 and was transferred to an infantry unit, where he did well enough to stay on as a trainer rather than ship out with his unit. He was then assigned to Fort Meade, Maryland, to supervise recruits who were about to be sent overseas. He finally shipped out himself in the fall of 1944, and was assigned to the 100th Division in northeastern France. He led a machine gun section and was involved in heavy fighting against German fortifications, and was wounded and evacuated. The aid station that he was sent to was bombed, and he was sent to England. He rejoined his unit in the spring of 1945, and served with the Army of Occupation in Germany until the end of the year.
creator: Koetje, Bill
source: Veterans History Project Collection, (RHC-27)
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
date: 2010-04-26
contributor: Smither, James (Interviewer)
rights: In Copyright
relation: Veterans History Project (U.S.)
format: application/pdf
format: video/mp4
language: eng
type: Moving Image
type: Text

Koetje, Wilbert (Interview outline and video), 2010
subject: Oral history
subject: Veterans History Project (U.S.)
subject: United States--History, Military
subject: Michigan--History, Military
subject: Veterans
subject: Video recordings
subject: World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American
subject: United States. Navy
description: Wilbert Koetje was born in Marion, Michigan in 1922. After failing in his first attempt to enlist, he was drafted in 1943 and served in the Navy. Even after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Koetje waited a year before enlisting. After the military denied his enlistment, Koetje waited for the draft; once drafted, he served in the Navy. He initially served on a destroyer, the USS Davison, on convoy duty in the Atlantic and Mediterranean. He then switched to another destroyer, the USS McDermott, which patrolled out of Hawaii. After several months, he was sent back to California on a transport ship, the SS Henry Byrd, which had to be abandoned off San Francisco. After that, he was assigned as a gun captain aboard a transport ship, the SS Leo, and participated in the campaigns at Iwo Jima and Okinawa, took a load of troops to Japan for the occupation, and helped repatriate Chinese soldiers.
creator: Koetje, Wilbert
source: Veterans History Project Collection, (RHC-27)
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
date: 2010-03-09
contributor: Smither, James (Interviewer)
rights: In Copyright
relation: Veterans History Project (U.S.)
format: application/pdf
format: video/mp4
language: eng
type: Moving Image
type: Text

Kolenbrander, Harold
subject: Grand Valley State University – History
subject: College administrators
subject: Michigan
description: Harold Kolenbrander, Dean of College Branding
creator: Grand Valley State University. University Communications
source: University Communications. Vita Files, 1968-2016 (GV012-03)
publisher: Grand Valley State University. Special Collections and University Archives
rights: In Copyright
format: image/jpeg
language: eng
type: Image

Kolenbrander, Harold
subject: Grand Valley State University – History
subject: College administrators
subject: Michigan
description: Harold Kolenbrander, Dean of College Branding
creator: Grand Valley State University. University Communications
source: University Communications. Vita Files, 1968-2016 (GV012-03)
publisher: Grand Valley State University. Special Collections and University Archives
rights: In Copyright
format: image/jpeg
language: eng
type: Image

Kolenbrander, Harold
subject: Grand Valley State University – History
subject: College administrators
subject: Michigan
description: Harold Kolenbrander, Dean of College Branding
creator: Grand Valley State University. University Communications
source: University Communications. Vita Files, 1968-2016 (GV012-03)
publisher: Grand Valley State University. Special Collections and University Archives
rights: In Copyright
format: image/jpeg
language: eng
type: Image

Kolenbrander, Harold
subject: Grand Valley State University – History
subject: College administrators
subject: Michigan
description: Harold Kolenbrander, Dean of College Branding
creator: Grand Valley State University. University Communications
source: University Communications. Vita Files, 1968-2016 (GV012-03)
publisher: Grand Valley State University. Special Collections and University Archives
rights: In Copyright
format: image/jpeg
language: eng
type: Image

Kölnische Chronik. [Low German] Die Cronica van der hilliger stat van Coellen [folium 186]
subject: Incunabula
subject: Printing 1450-1500
description: One leaf from Kölnische Chronik [Low German], Die Cronica van der hilliger stat van Coellen, by Chronicles: Cologne. Printed in Cologne by Johann Koelhoff, the Younger, on August 23, 1499. Illustrated with colored woodcut. [GW 6688; ISTC ic00476000]
creator: Chronicles: Cologne
source: Seidman Rare Books Collection
publisher: Cologne: Johann Koelhoff
date: 1499
rights: No Copyright - United States
format: application/pdf
language: de
type: Text

Konigskinder
subject: Book covers
subject: Covers (Illustration)
subject: Graphic arts
subject: Publishers and publishing
subject: Pictorial bindings
description: Binding of Konigskinder, by Anna Alice Chapin, published by Harper & Brothers, 1911.
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
date: 1911
rights: No Copyright - United States
format: image/jpeg
language: eng
type: Image

Konsin Shah interview (video and transcript, 1 of 6), 1991
subject: Oral history
subject: United States--History, Military
subject: China--History, Military
subject: Veterans
subject: China. Kong jun. American Volunteer Group
subject: World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American
description: Interview of Chinese Ambassador Konsin Shah by filmmaker Frank Boring for the documentary, Fei Hu: The Story of the Flying Tigers. Ambassador Shah served as a Chinese aviator during World War II and later as President Chiang Kai-shek's pilot and aide de camp. In this tape, Konsin Shah describes his background before becoming involved with the American Volunteer Group (AVG) and his experiences in Shanghai during the time of the bombings.
creator: Shah, Konsin C.
source: Fei Hu Films research and production files (RHC-88)
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives.
date: 1991-03-24
contributor: Boring, Frank (interviewer)
contributor: Christopher, Frank (director)
contributor: Fei Hu Films
rights: In Copyright
format: video/mp4
format: application/pdf
language: eng
type: Moving Image
type: Text

Konsin Shah interview (video and transcript, 2 of 6), 1991
subject: Oral history
subject: United States--History, Military
subject: China--History, Military
subject: Veterans
subject: China. Kong jun. American Volunteer Group
subject: World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American
description: Interview of Chinese Ambassador Konsin Shah by filmmaker Frank Boring for the documentary, Fei Hu: The Story of the Flying Tigers. Ambassador Shah served as a Chinese aviator during World War II and later as President Chiang Kai-shek's pilot and aide de camp. In this tape, Konsin Shah discusses his transition from serving in the Chinese Army to joining the Air Force and his recollection of his first flight.
creator: Shah, Konsin C.
source: Fei Hu Films research and production files (RHC-88)
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives.
date: 1991-03-24
contributor: Boring, Frank (interviewer)
contributor: Christopher, Frank (director)
contributor: Fei Hu Films
rights: In Copyright
format: video/mp4
format: application/pdf
language: eng
type: Moving Image
type: Text

Konsin Shah interview (video and transcript, 3 of 6), 1991
subject: Oral history
subject: United States--History, Military
subject: China--History, Military
subject: Veterans
subject: China. Kong jun. American Volunteer Group
subject: World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American
description: Interview of Chinese Ambassador Konsin Shah by filmmaker Frank Boring for the documentary, Fei Hu: The Story of the Flying Tigers. Ambassador Shah served as a Chinese aviator during World War II and later as President Chiang Kai-shek's pilot and aide de camp. In this tape, Konsin Shah discusses when he first heard of the American Volunteer Group, the American training program in China, and his knowledge of the Chinese air pilots that fought the Japanese before the AVG.
creator: Shah, Konsin C.
source: Fei Hu Films research and production files (RHC-88)
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives.
date: 1991-03-24
contributor: Boring, Frank (interviewer)
contributor: Christopher, Frank (director)
contributor: Fei Hu Films
rights: In Copyright
format: video/mp4
format: application/pdf
language: eng
type: Moving Image
type: Text

Konsin Shah interview (video and transcript, 4 of 6), 1991
subject: Oral history
subject: United States--History, Military
subject: China--History, Military
subject: Veterans
subject: China. Kong jun. American Volunteer Group
subject: World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American
description: Interview of Chinese Ambassador Konsin Shah by filmmaker Frank Boring for the documentary, Fei Hu: The Story of the Flying Tigers. Ambassador Shah served as a Chinese aviator during World War II and later as President Chiang Kai-shek's pilot and aide de camp. In this tape, Konsin Shah describes the differences and problems between the Chinese Air Force and the Japanese Air Force before Pearl Harbor, in addition to the arrival of the AVG and his first impressions of the Flying Tigers.
creator: Shah, Konsin C.
source: Fei Hu Films research and production files (RHC-88)
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives.
date: 1991-03-24
contributor: Boring, Frank (interviewer)
contributor: Christopher, Frank (director)
contributor: Fei Hu Films
rights: In Copyright
format: video/mp4
format: application/pdf
language: eng
type: Moving Image
type: Text

Konsin Shah interview (video and transcript, 5 of 6), 1991
subject: Oral history
subject: United States--History, Military
subject: China--History, Military
subject: Veterans
subject: China. Kong jun. American Volunteer Group
subject: World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American
description: Interview of Chinese Ambassador Konsin Shah by filmmaker Frank Boring for the documentary, Fei Hu: The Story of the Flying Tigers. Ambassador Shah served as a Chinese aviator during World War II and later as President Chiang Kai-shek's pilot and aide de camp. In this tape, Konsin Shah describes the first battle of the American Volunteer Group, the bombing of Kunming, and his perspective on the AVG's place in Chinese history.
creator: Shah, Konsin C.
source: Fei Hu Films research and production files (RHC-88)
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives.
date: 1991-03-24
contributor: Boring, Frank (interviewer)
contributor: Christopher, Frank (director)
contributor: Fei Hu Films
rights: In Copyright
format: video/mp4
format: application/pdf
language: eng
type: Moving Image
type: Text

Konsin Shah interview (video and transcript, 6 of 6), 1991
subject: Oral history
subject: United States--History, Military
subject: China--History, Military
subject: Veterans
subject: China. Kong jun. American Volunteer Group
subject: World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American
description: Interview of Chinese Ambassador Konsin Shah by filmmaker Frank Boring for the documentary, Fei Hu: The Story of the Flying Tigers. Ambassador Shah served as a Chinese aviator during World War II and later as President Chiang Kai-shek's pilot and aide de camp. In this tape, Konsin Shah discusses the great dilemma of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek at the time of Japanese invasion in July 1937 and the lack of hope for a peaceful solution in China.
creator: Shah, Konsin C.
source: Fei Hu Films research and production files (RHC-88)
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives.
date: 1991-03-24
contributor: Boring, Frank (interviewer)
contributor: Christopher, Frank (director)
contributor: Fei Hu Films
rights: In Copyright
format: video/mp4
format: application/pdf
language: eng
type: Moving Image
type: Text

Konwinski, Dolores L. (Interview transcript and video), 2008
subject: Oral history
subject: Veterans History Project (U.S.)
subject: Video recordings
subject: All-American Girls Professional Baseball League--Personal narratives
subject: Baseball for women--United States
subject: Baseball
subject: Sports for women
subject: World War, 1939-1945
subject: Baseball players--Michigan
subject: Baseball players--Illinois
subject: Women
description: Dolly Konwinski was born on May 27, 1931 in Chicago Illinois. Starting at the age of seven, she played baseball with a neighborhood team and her father who encouraged her to pursue it. In 1947, Konwinski got her big break and tried out for one of the four teams the All American Girls Professional Baseball League was trying to form in Chicago. She began her professional career playing for the Chicago Colleens. In 1949, after the barnstorming tour she was allocated to play for the Springfield Sallies. In 1950, she was traded to the Grand Rapids Chicks and played mainly for them until 1952 but played for a brief time with the Battle Creek Belles in 1951. During her professional career she mainly played second and third base.
creator: Konwinski, Dolores L.
source: All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Collection, (RHC-55)
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
date: 2008-10-06
contributor: Boring, Frank (Interviewer)
rights: In Copyright
relation: Veterans History Project (U.S.)
format: application/pdf
format: video/mp4
language: eng
type: Moving Image
type: Text

Konyndyk, Ronald (Interview transcript and video), 2019
subject: Oral history
subject: Veterans History Project (U.S.)
subject: United States—History, Military
subject: Veterans
subject: Video recordings
subject: Other veterans & civilians—Personal narratives, American
description: Ronald Konyndyk was born in 1944 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he lived a comfortable childhood and attended local schools. Konyndyk’s father had been drafted into the Army during the Second World War and later worked as an executive at a furniture company. He graduated high school in 1962 and attended Ferris State University for a degree in business, which he achieved in 1967. A week after he graduated, Konyndyk received a draft notice, and on December 7, 1967, he reported to Fort Knox, Kentucky, for Basic Training. After Basic Training, he was specially selected and transferred to Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, for a year of Electronics School during which he learned to operate and repair radio communication systems. He was assigned to an old French outpost in a quiet sector of Vietnam before being transferred to the Signal Battalion of the 9th Infantry Division at a more active forward operating base. When he visited smaller forward operating bases in the field to conduct equipment exchanges, Konyndyk remembered being frequently out in the open and working in fear of being fired upon from the jungle. During the Tet Offensive in 1969, North Vietnamese sappers attempted to breach the barrier alongside his base’s airstrip and were successful in destroying one fuel tank before being apprehended. During enemy mortar attacks, he and his peers retreated to an enormous bunker built on the base. While on the base, Konyndyk noticed several cases of drug use amongst the troops, particularly with marijuana, as well as how the units were well integrated without much racial tension. He also purchased a small personal slide camera which he used everywhere he went in the field, accumulating approximately 600 photos over his tour in Vietnam. When his tour ended, Konyndyk was flown from Tan Son Nhut Air Base near Saigon back to the United States where he began the process of leaving the service, where some soldiers never received a physical or their military medals. At sixty years …
creator: Konyndyk, Ronald
source: Veterans History Project collection, (RHC-27)
publisher: Grand Valley State University Libraries, Special Collections & University Archives, 1 Campus Drive, Allendale, MI, 49401.
date: 2019-06
contributor: Smither, James (Interviewer)
contributor: WKTV (Wyoming, Mich.)
rights: In Copyright
relation: Veterans History Project (U.S.)
format: video/mp4
format: application/pdf
language: eng
type: Moving Image
type: Text

Kooy, Wayne John (Interview outline), 2015
subject: Oral history
subject: Veterans History Project (U.S.)
subject: United States--History, Military
subject: Michigan--History, Military
subject: Veterans
subject: Other veterans & civilians--Personal narratives, American
subject: United States. Army
description: Wayne Kooy was born in Lansing, Illinois on April 26th, 1932. He was drafted in March of 1955 and had basic training in Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. In the Army he used his electrical engineering skills to craft and maintain meteorological devices in White Sands, New Mexico. With his time in the military he achieved the rank of E2 at his highest ranking.
creator: Kooy, Wayne John
source: Veterans History Project collection, (RHC-27)
publisher: Grand Valley State University Libraries. Allendale, Michigan
date: 2015-05-26
contributor: Kooy, Brendon (Interviewer)
rights: In Copyright
relation: Veterans History Project (U.S.)
format: application/pdf
language: eng
type: Text