McCloughan, James (Interview outline and video), 2013
Oral history
Veterans History Project (U.S.)
United States--History, Military
Michigan--History, Military
Veterans
Video recordings
United States. Army
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American
Jim McCloughan is a Vietnam War veteran who was born in South Haven, MI in 1946 and was drafted after college in 1968. He served with the 3/21st Infantry in the 196th Light Infantry Brigade, 23rd (Americal) Division as a combat medic. He fought in several major battles, including Tam Ky, and received two purple hearts during his tour.
McCloughan, James
Veterans History Project Collection, (RHC-27)
Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
Kentwood Historic Preservation Commission (Kentwood, Mich.)
In Copyright
McConnon, James (Interview outline and video), 2009
James McConnon was drafted into the Army in October of 1971 and went through basic training at Fort Knox, Kentucky for 8 weeks. He then went through secondary advanced individual training at Fort Bliss, Texas where he worked with the Air Defense Missile System. After training James was sent to South Korea in April of 1972 to work with Air Defense Artillery. James spent 14 months in the Northern area of South Korea working on air defense where he spent most of his time in field training.
McConnon, James
Caledonia High School (Caledonia, Mich.)
McCormick, Theodore (Interview outline and video), 2012
Ted McCormick was born in Standish, Michigan and grew up in Flint, Michigan. He graduated from high school in 1968 and received his draft notice in 1969. He took basic training at Fort Knox, Kentucky, and infantry training at Fort Polk, Louisiana. Sent to Vietnam, he was assigned to an infantry company in the 101st Airborne Division. His unit went on patrols in the jungles of northern South Vietnam and encountered its share of firefights, ambushes and booby traps. In the last few months of his tour, which ended in October, 1970, he observed the effects of readily available heroin in the rear areas, and an escalation of racial tensions.
McCormick, Theodore
McCoy, James (Interview outline and video), 2013
Jim was born in Santee, California on August 29, 1951. After Jim graduated from high school in 1969, he decided to beat the draft and enlist in the United States Army. He was sent to Vietnam in May 1970 and worked as a base guard at Bien Hoa. After some time, he was reassigned to 1st Platoon, Delta Company, 1/506th, 101st Airborne out of Camp Evans. Jim took part in the attack at Firebase Ripcord. After getting out of the army, Jim joined the California Highway Patrol and served for twenty eight years. After retirement from the CHP, Jim went to Iraq and Afghanistan and worked as a police advisor to local police departments.
McCoy, James
Veterans History Project collection, (RHC-27)
McCoy, Joyce Barnes (Interview transcript and video), 2009
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League--Personal narratives
Baseball for women--United States
Baseball
Sports for women
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American
Baseball players--Wisconsin
Joyce Barnes McCoy was born in on a farm south of Hutchinson, Kansas on October 18, 1925. She played softball with her siblings and then played various sports throughout grade and high schools. One day while still in high school she was reading a Hutchinson News article in which read that Phillip Wrigley was looking for girls to try-out for women's softball teams up in Chicago. After one correspondence—Mr. Wrigley paid Barnes' way to the tryout in Chicago. She started and ended her professional career by playing with the Kenosha Comets in 1943. She played as a pitcher while there.
McCoy, Joyce Barnes
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Collection, (RHC-55)
McCrumb, Todd (Interview outline and video), 2008
United States. Air Force
Other veterans & civilians--Personal narratives, American
Todd McCrumb was born in Lansing, Michigan in 1965 and enlisted in the Air Force in 1984 shortly after graduating from high school. He had been unsure of what he wanted to do in his life, not ready for college, and unemployment in the area was at 16%. Todd spent time working with the security police near the DMZ in South Korea. He was later stationed in Montana. Todd did not re-enlist because he was told he would have to spend another 6 years in Montana. He later graduated from Grand Valley State University and is now a teacher.
McCrumb, Todd
McDonald, Lewis (Interview outline and video), 2007
United States. Army Air Corps
Lewis McDonald of Grand Rapids, Michigan, is a World War II veteran who served as a pilot with the Eighth Air Force. Lewis was drafted in 1943 and went to Fort Sill, Oklahoma for basic training. While there, he was recruited into a pilot training program, and was sent to England in late 1944 to be a B-17 pilot. He flew regular missions over Central Europe until the German surrender, at which point he was sent back home to train as a B-29 pilot, but the war ended before he was to deploy to the Pacific. After the war, he remained in the Army Air Corps for a year and a half, mostly flying B-17 on aerial photography missions, and spent the summer of 1946 doing this at Thule, Greenland.
McDonald, Lewis
Mirta McGee audio interview and Transcript
Civil rights--Michigan--History
Hispanic Americans--Personal narratives
Women--Personal narratives
Discrimination
Mirta McGee was born in Cuba and raised in the United States. She is currently an elementary school Spanish teacher. She discusses balancing Cuban culture with American culture, discrimination based on language barriers, and the differences between when she was growing up and her students now.
McGee, Mirta
Speaking Out: Western Michigan Civil Rights Oral History Project
McGregor, Madelaine (Interview outline and video), 2014
Madeline McGregor was born in 1946 in South Bend Indiana. She married her husband Mike McGregor in 1965, at age 19, and her husband was drafted the next year. Around the same time she became pregnant, and had her son Mike Jr shortly before her husband left for Vietnam. While her husband was training but before her son was born Madeline sold typewriters at a store. After he served his two years Mike returned and they had another child named Melissa.
McGregor, Madelaine
Grand Valley State University Libraries. Allendale, Michigan
McGregor, Michael (Interview outline and video), 2010
Michael McGregor, born in Indiana in 1943, served in the U.S. Army from November of 1966 through late 1968 in the 1st Cavalry Division in the Vietnam War. After receiving his draft notice, Michael trained at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. He was then sent to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, where he began his work in field artillery. In the fall of 1967 Michael was sent to Vietnam and was placed in the 1st Cavalry. He served in the Phan Thiet area at the end of Operation Byrd, and moved up to the Hue area after the start of the Tet Offensive, and later in the Khe Sanh area and the A Shau Valley.
McGregor, Michael
Lynn McIntosh, 2021 (Interview video and transcript)
Personal narrative
PFAs (Perfluorinated chemicals)
Groundwater--Pollution
Lynn McIntosh grew up on the east coast but has lived in Rockford, Michigan for about 30 years. Lynn noticed foam and filmy substance in the river in about 2010, and began taking photos of the contamination. In this interview, McIntosh discusses her work to bring public awarenss to PFAS contamination.
McIntosh, Lynn
Living with PFAS (project)
In copyright
Lynn McIntosh, 2021 (Interview audio and transcript with additional artifacts)
Lynn McIntosh grew up on the east coast but has lived in Rockford, Michigan for about 30 years. This interview documents the maps, photographs, reports, and firsthand testimony that Lynn McIntosh and CCRR assembled to uncover PFAS contamination linked to Wolverine Worldwide. Key artifacts included FOIA-obtained site maps, demolition photographs, worker interviews identifying buried tanks and disposal practices, regulatory records showing gaps and inconsistencies in testing and reporting, and documents proving Wolverine’s use and storage of Scotchgard. Together, these materials formed the evidentiary foundation that challenged official claims, demonstrated widespread contamination, and helped prompt renewed EPA investigation and cleanup action. Please note, in addition to the audio interview and transcript document, the supplemental artifact documents include the visual and textual artifacts referenced throughout the interview and transcript, including items labeled from "Artifact 1" to "Artifact 52."
Michael McIntosh, 2025 (Interview video and transcript)
Michael McIntosh shares his experiences organizing community action around PFAS contamination in Rockford, Michigan, from grassroots advocacy to ongoing work with the Wolverine Community Advisory Group.
McIntosh, Michael
McIntyre, Thomas V. (Interview outline and video), 2005
Thomas McIntire enlisted in the US Army three days after his graduation from high school. He was sent to Fort Knox, Kentucky for boot camp, and later for truck mechanic school. The Army sent Thomas to Germany, where he worked in the motor pool on a base there. Thomas was discharged in June of 1968, and came back to Michigan to become a tool and die maker.
McIntyre, Thomas V.
Master plan reports
Flat Rock (Mich.)
Wayne County (Mich.)
The Master Plan for the City of Flat Rock was prepared by McKenna Associates, Incorporated In January 1990.
McKenna Associates, Incorporated
Planning and Zoning Center Collection (RHC-240)
No Copyright - United States
Walled Lake (Mich.)
Oakland County (Mich.)
The Master Plan or the City of Walled Lake was prepared by McKenna Associates, Incorporated with transportation analysis provided by Ann Arbor Planning Associates in consultation with McNamee, Porter & Seeley and was adopted on April 10, 1990.
Ann Arbor Planning Associates (consultant)
McKersie, Donald V. (Interview outline and video), 2007
Prisoners of war--Germany
Donald McKersie is a WW II Army veteran who served in the European Theater and in Japan. He took part in the Battle of the Bulge, and talks about the disposition of prisoners by his division. After being sent to Japan, he was on furlough when the war in Japan ended. McKersie discusses the effect serving in the Army had on his life and on his success as a businessman.
McKersie, Donald V.
McKindley, Jack (Interview outline and video), 2014
Jack McKindley was born in 1925 in Kalamazoo Michigan. He graduated from Mendon High School in 1943 and was drafted to the United States Army. After doing his basic training at Keesler Air-force Base in Biloxi, Mississippi, he was sent to Arkansas to be part of the military band. He played trumpet for the 469th Air-force band with 27 other members. They were stationed outside of Newport News at Camp Patrick Henry in Virginia during the end of the war. He was discharged in March of 1946.
McKindley, Jack
Michigan--History
Local histories
Memoirs
Oral histories (document genre)
Grand Rapids (Mich.)
Personal narratives
Heritage Hill (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
Grand Valley State University
Women
Veronica Jungbaecker was born on August 1, 1883 in Grand Rapids. Her father, John Jungbaecker, was the building contractor for the Voigt House. She married Ford McLachlan in 1920. She worked at the Robert Irwin Furniture Company as a secretary/bookkeeper. Mrs. McLachlan died on December 21, 1988.
McLachlan, Veronica
Grand Rapids oral history collection (RHC-23)
Field House. Construction of the new Field House
Michigan
Allendale (Mich.)
Universities and colleges
Facilities
Building
Construction of the new Field House adjacent to the remodeled old Field House is completed in 1982.
McLaughlin, P.
In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
McLogan, Beatrice (Interview transcript and video), 2007
United States. Naval Reserve. Women's Reserve
Beatrice McLogan was a World War II veteran who served in the Navy WAVES from 1944 to 1945. In this account, McLogan discusses her family life, her enlistment and training, and her work in the code office in Washington D.C.
McLogan, Beatrice
McLogan, Edward (Interview outline and video), 2007
Edward McLogan entered the ROTC at the University of Michigan in 1938, and joined the US Army in 1942. He served as an officer with an army unit in the Solomons, participating in a landing on Vella Lavella, and subsequently volunteered to join a specialized unit that turned out to be Merrill's Marauders. He served as an officer on the unit's mission behind Japanese lines in Burma, and despite being wounded remained with it until the end of its mission. He served for the rest of the war at Fort Benning and in Washington.
McLogan, Edward
McMillan, Peter (Interview outline and video), 2006
Peter McMillan is a WW II veteran who served in the United States Air Force from approximately 1945 to 1947? in Guam with a six-week stint in Hawaii. Although a majority of his time in the service occurred after WWII had ended, McMillan's story still provides a unique perspective on post-WW II conflict in the Pacific Theater. This account details how tension and confusion continued well into the post-WWII years. He talks briefly about the role of the United Service Organization and his correspondence home. Finally, McMillan discusses life after war - the role of the G.I. Bill and his generation's commitment to WW II - and what impact the anti-war protests of the 1960s had on his generation.
McMillan, Peter
Forest Hills Eastern High School (Ada, Mich.)
McNamara, Martin (Interview outline and video), 2008
Martin McNamara, born in 1916 in Michigan, joined the National Guard in 1938, serving with the 119th Field Artillery. His unit was mobilized over a year before Pearl Harbor, and sent to train at Fort Knox and Fort Leonard Wood. In 1942, he was reassigned to the 260th Coastal Artillery and sent to Alaska. He served as a driver for trucks and caterpillar tractors, and helped build bases on Kodiak and Amchitka Islands in the Aleutians. He was sent to Texas in 1944 and trained as a combat engineer and as a paratrooper in preparation for the invasion of Japan, but the war ended before he could be sent overseas, and he was discharged shortly afterward.
McNamara, Martin