1007 24 26018 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/b1e90475ffe79855bfaef6adcc89e2fe.pdf 375fed9dd08ebc9ee3919cb388a0087e PDF Text Text -· 1 november 1990 Uitreiking Yad Vashem onderscheiding in het Raadhuis te Hoofddorp. Ik mag u namens allen die deze dag de Yad Vashem onderscheiding mochten ontvangen heel hartelijk danken. Dank ook aan allen die zich hier voor hebben ingezet. Wij zijn zeer onder de indruk dat u na bijna 50 jaren wilt terugdenken aan die tijd waarin wij gedurende langere of korte re tijd onderdak hebben gegeven aan J00dse Nederlandse v rouwen en mannen - en niet te vergeten kinderen - die door de bezetter werden achtervolgd. Wij willen u daarvoor danken. De dingen die gebeurden in die donkere oorlogsdagen zijn bij ons niet uit ons geheugen gewist. Integendeel, die oorlog leeft nog steeds voort in onze herinnering. Het is een wezenlijk deel van ons bestaan geworden en gebleven. We zijn niet vervuld van trots om wat we deden. Ik denk dat in onze gedachten over die jaren geen plaats is voor trots. Wat we deden was ook niet iets geweldigs, in het · hele oorlogsgebeuren van die dagen. �/ - 2 - We waren geen verdedigers van Stalingrad of Londen, geen zeelieden op de schepen die ieder moment konden worden getorpedeerd. We vochten niet aan de invasiestranden. Wij waren geen piloten die honderden kilometers over vijandelijk gebied vlogen met rondom een vuurzee van kogels en granaten. We pleegden geen overval op een distributiekantoor of gevangenissen. Wat we deden kwam niet in de krant. Het gebeurde in het verborgene. Niemand mocht het weten. Er zijn er geweest die jaren Joodse onderduikers in huis hadden, zonder dat iemand buiten het huis dat wist. Zelfs de verzetsorganisaties niet. Niet trots willen we zijn omdat het ging over zo iets onwezenlijks! Mensen die zoals wij, gewone mensen waren, die in onze samenleving hun plaats innamen, zonder ook maar op te vallen. Ze werden van de ene op de andere dag gevaarlijk. Ze waren staatsgevaarlijk, ook de kleine kinderen. Ze belemmerden de komst van het duizendjarig Rijk "De grote Sociale Staat ter Wereld" (Goebbels 12-2-41). �,- - 3 - Het had ook ons kunnen overkomen. De "Satans knechten" zoals opa Boogaard hen typeerde hadden hun plannen klaar liggen om op een gunstig tijdstip al diegenen die niet pasten in hun wereld uit te roeien. De joden waren de voorhoede! Omdat we niet mee wilden doen met het synistere spel van ve rnedering van onze medemens hebben we onze huizen opengezet o m toen het nodig werd aan Joden die onderdoken huisvesting te verlenen. Niet trots! Omdat we niet vergeten zijn wat de onderduikers mee moesten maken. Ze konden niet in hun huizen blijven. Weg uit hun vertrouwde omge vi ng. Opgesloten in kleine kamertjes. Soms dag en nacht. Regelmatig wegkruipen onder de vloer of in een geheime kast. Zeker niet op straat. Soms even vlak·bij huis als het donker was. Even een paar stappen buiten. Ze waren er niet voor opgeleid onderduiker te zijn. Ook de gastvrouw/gastheer hadden zich niet voorbereid op het hebben van onderduikers. �/ - 4 - Angst - spanning en de kans om opgepakt te worden. Er was een voortdurend tekort aan de meest elementaire dingen van ons bestaan. De gezinnen waren meestal van elkaar gescheiden. Zonder op de hoogte te zijn van elkaars toestand. Ik heb het al meer gezegd dat vooral onze vrouwen in die situatie het zwaar hebben gehad. Daar heb ik bewondering voor! Grote bewondering. Gelukkig ging het meestal goed. Onderduikers en hun gast v rouw/gastheer konden goed met elkaar opschieten. Ve l e n werden vrienden voor het leven. De meeste onderduikers waren te vinden in de kleine huisjes. Niet velen waren zo gelukkig dat ze als de kleine Mozes konden onderduiken in het paleis van de dochter van de Farao van Egypte. Hoewel zijn eerste onderduik-adres in een biezen kistje tussen het riet van de Nijl was ook niet geweldig. Mozes was denk ik één van de eerste onderduikers. Na hem zijn er de gehele geschiedenis door Joden gevlucht en ondergedoken voor de achtervolgers. �, . / - 5 - We kennen de geschiedenis van het Joodse volk. Vanuit de Bij~el werd ons verteld van de oorsprong van het Jodendom. De geschiedenis van een volk dat zich ondanks vervolging en vernedering wist te handhaven. Vanuit de gehele wereld zijn ze in onze dagen terug gekomen naar het oude land Israël. Ook nu weer zijn ze omringd door vijanden die ze naar het lev e n staan. Chaim Potok zegt in zijn boek omzwervingen: "hoe komt het dat er na dit alles nog steeds Joden bestaan? "Ik schrijf dit boek in Jeruzalem en in bepaalde steden in Amerika en Europa. Ik schrijf het in het bloedigste tijdperk v an de geschiedenis van mijn volk, misschien zelfs van de geschiedenis van de mensheid. Wie in dit tijdperk joods is, beseft enerzijds ten volle dat het einde van de menselijke soort mogelijk is en gelooft anderzijds hardnekkig dat we zullen overleven". �,--~------------~- - 6 - Wij hebben een klein stukje van die Joodse geschiedenis met zijn mysterieuze en verbijsterende aspecten meegemaakt. Aan den lijve ondervonden. Wij zijn niet trots op die kleine rol die we mochten spelen in het grote verhaal van de Joodse geschiedenis. We zijn dankbaar dat er ondanks de gruwelen van de jaren 1940-1945 10.000 joden mochten blijven leven. Vooral dankbaar ook dat de bevrijding mocht worden meebeleefd door de 4000 joodse kinderen die v anuit de schuilplaatsen tevoorschijn kwamen. ~aar het is onmogelijk om daarbij niet te denken aan de 104.000 Nederlandse Joden die werden vermoord. Deze gemeente Haarlemmermeer heeft 26 dorpen en dorpjes; er wonen bijna 100.000 mensen. We kunnen ook vandaag niet vergeten de joodse onderduikers die zijn gevonden door de Hitler knechten. We schamen ons voor het verraad uit ons eigen volk. We denken aan de gastvrouwen/ gastheren die mee zijn opgepakt en nooit meer terug kwamen, of voor hun leven lang kapot gemaakt waren. Dank u wel voor de onderscheiding die u ons gaf. Niet trots. Dankbaar dat we iets mochten doen voor onze medemens. We zijn bevoorrechte mensen! � 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 Adriana B. and Peter N. Termaat collection Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Termaat, Adriana B. (Schuurman) Termaat, Peter N. Description An account of the resource Collection contains genealogical, personal, and family papers and photographs documenting the lives and interests of Adriana and Peter Termaat. 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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 DC-08_BI-UJCGM-Minutes_1957 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource United Jewish Charities of Greater Muskegon Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1957 Title A name given to the resource UJCGM Minutes, 1957 Description An account of the resource Board minutes of the United Jewish Charities of Greater Muskegon, 1957. Subject The topic of the resource Jews--United States Muskegon (Mich.) Charities Minutes (Records) Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Digital file contributed by the B'nai Israel Temple as part of the L'dor V'dor project. 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Title A name given to the resource Temple B'nai Israel Collection Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Temple B'nai Israel (Muskegon, Mich.) Description An account of the resource Collection of photographs, scrapbooks, programs, minutes, and other records of the Temple B'nai Israel in Muskegon, Michigan. The collection was created as part of the L'dor V'dor project directed by Dr. Marilyn Preston, and was supported by grants from the Kutsche Office of Local History and Michigan Humanities Council. Original materials were digitized by the University Libraries and returned to the synagogue. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Digital objects were contributed by Temple B'nai Israel as part of the L'dor V'dor project. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</a> Subject The topic of the resource Jews--United States Muskegon (Mich.) Scrapbooks Synagogues Women--Societies and clubs Minutes (Records) Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Allendale, Michigan Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Preston, Marilyn Grand Valley State University. Special Collections and University Archives Relation A related resource L'dor V'dor (project) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-08 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Image Text Type The nature or genre of the resource image/jpeg application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Circa 1920s-2018 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 DC-08_BI-UJCGM-Minutes_1958 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource United Jewish Charities of Greater Muskegon Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1957 Title A name given to the resource UJCGM Minutes, 1958 Description An account of the resource Board minutes of the United Jewish Charities of Greater Muskegon, 1958. Subject The topic of the resource Jews--United States Muskegon (Mich.) Charities Minutes (Records) Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Digital file contributed by the B'nai Israel Temple as part of the L'dor V'dor project. Relation A related resource L'dor V'dor (project) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng 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/b1ea8ce78b7b45494a2d39148bb379f6.pdf a1c5bed16456b850621239ddfe1aaff8 PDF Text Text Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project George Ulrich (7:58) Basic training (00:12) • • • • George attended Basic training in Alabama. Here he learned how to fire weapons, including rifles and machine guns. (00:12) The men frequently marched at night. (00:40) George was sent to Fort McClellan, Alabama where he was taught about gas and how to maneuver around it. (1:05) From his training in Alabama he was sent to Korea for 15 months. (1:36) Service in Korea (1:55) • • • • • • George was stationed in Soul Korea while in country there he was taught how to crack safes. (2:15) He served as a chief electrician. This consisted of fixing machinery that broke down. (2:50) Though the war had ended in 1953, there were still U.S. soldiers in Korea concerned about North Korea crossing the DMZ line. (3:31) George arrived in Korea in 1954. In 1955 he was sent back to the U.S., specifically Washington Stat. He was stent sent to and then Fort Leopard Wood, Missouri. (5:05) George did reenlist. (6:03) It’s difficult to keep in contact with the men George befriended in service because they had been spread out so much after being discharged. (6:52) � 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/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context UlrichG1396V Title A name given to the resource Ulrich, George (Interview outline), 2012 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Ulrich, George Description An account of the resource George Ulrich took his Army basic training at Fort McClellan. He was sent to Korea in 1954 as an electrician. He returned to the U.S. in 1955 and reenlisted in the military. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Watson, Ian (Interviewer) Subject The topic of the resource Oral history Veterans History Project (U.S.) United States--History, Military Michigan--History, Military Veterans 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 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 2012-05-28 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 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/a390e84b0cef6b808d62e07097ed4c15.pdf ce1e30538a96acf13ab9de923c432c65 PDF Text Text Grand Valley State University Veteran’s History Project Vietnam War Wayne Umlor (23:54) Hospital Stay (00:00) • • • • One of his fellow soldiers who was wounded wanted to see his friend so badly that he had Wayne unhook him from his equipment in the middle of the night and take him. (00:05) While unhooking the man Wayne was caught by a nurse. She called in a doctor who assisted in unhooking the wounded soldier. (1:40) A two star general make rounds in the hospital every 2 weeks to pin purple hearts on the pillows of the wounded. One of Wayne’s friends told him to tell the general to just throw the medal away because if the general had listened to the men on the ground in the first place he wouldn’t have gotten hurt. (3:10) Wayne was in the hospital. Wayne was given the option to stay in Vietnam or to rest in Japan, and then be sent to serve the rest of his time back in the states. Wayne decided to stay in Vietnam because it would result in him being out quicker. (5:02) Service in Vietnam (6:38) • • • • • • • • • He spent approx a month and a half in a hospital in Cam Ranh Bay. When Wayne returned to his unit he was given the job of a jeep driver. (6:49) During Wayne’s last 2 months in the service he elected to be a sergeant back in the field. (8:22) For his last month with his company, men really went out in the field; they mostly were put on a base. (10:10) Men often got very nervous the closer their time approached to leave (10:45) Newspaper clippings of operations that Wayne’s platoon were in. (11:49) During one operation a helicopter was shot down resulting in many men being carried in it being thrown out of the aircraft on to the ground. This event resulted in many wounded. (13:00) This accident required that the men be vertically extracted from the area. There were so many casualties that they were flown to 3 different hospitals. (13:50) One man who was knocked out was left behind. When the men retuned the next day to retrieve him, the man had buried himself for cover and he was found alive. (14:30) One of the cooks who Wayne knew fairly well was killed when a stove exploded. He lived for 1 month with fatal burns before dying. (16:40) Thoughts on Service (17:49) • • • • He was discharged in approx. 1970. (17:20) He thought that the Vietnam was controlled by politics and thusly was very frustrating. (18:30) He thinks that the Vietnam War, when it began, was necessary. (18:55) He believes that the actions taken in Iraq were also needed as well. (19:20) �• The restrictions on what solders could and could not do during the war was very frustrating for the men involved. (21:08) Medals and Documents (22:04) • He was awarded 2 purple hearts. (22:42) � 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/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context UmlorW0847V Title A name given to the resource Umlor, Wayne (Interview outline), 2005 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Umlor, Wayne Description An account of the resource Wayne Umlor served as a sergeant in an infantry company during the Vietnam War. During his time in Vietnam, Wayne was wounded and spent several months in a military hospital. He was also awarded 2 purple hearts. After being healed he served 2 more months in the field before being discharged in 1970. Note: This interview is incomplete, and starts with him in the hospital. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Van Dyke, DJ (Interviewer) Lindberg, Amy (Interviewer) Subject The topic of the resource Oral history Veterans History Project (U.S.) United States--History, Military Michigan--History, Military Veterans Video recordings Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American United States. Army 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 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 2005-02-17 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 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/15cf8a55a8c51eae98f95445f9f98021.jpg 4226b4539f97c6948c84035f7be831fd 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. PS 3503 R458 U53 1902 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_Bindings0471 Title A name given to the resource Uncle Jed's Country Letters Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource [Circle D] (Designer) Description An account of the resource Binding of Uncle Jed's Country Letters, by Hilda Brenton, published by Henry A. Dickerman & Son, 1902. 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 1902 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/b0b2b1c568d57e1d97bafcde5678baf4.jpg ecb0871e9b5c1381820021ff2e6431c8 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/c59b8b4987ba9d3394375c57ad191f1a.jpg 509e659c096670700378c0683abc3490 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/. Title A name given to the resource Uncle Sam saving the South from secession Description An account of the resource Caricature of man on the end of pier extending the flag to a man who has fallen into the water, and "I say old fellow just hold on to this ere Flag or You are lost." Man on the pier represents the North, the man in the water represents the south, the alligator represents secession. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-49_PE015 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 Subject The topic of the resource United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 Postal service--United States--History Covers (Philatety)--United States--History Patriotic envelopes Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/476">Civil War patriotic envelopes, (RHC-49)</a> 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 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/be7d2db5dcf1cf01b57b1ea3493b68dd.jpg d1f438994ab095040fb4a5ab12e67f69 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 Robert H. Merrill photographs Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Merrill, Robert H., 1881-1955 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1909/1950 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Robert H. Merrill papers (RHC-222) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-222 Description An account of the resource Photographs, negatives, and lantern slides digitized from the papers of engineer and archaeologist Robert H. Merrill. A Grand Rapids native, Merrill held an accomplished career as a civil engineer. He founded the company Spooner & Merrill, which held offices in Grand Rapids and Chicago. From 1919-1921, Merrill lived in China, working as Assistant Principal Engineer on a reconstruction of the Grand Canal - the oldest and longest canal system in the world. Merrill became fascinated by archaeology, and among other projects, he traveled to the Uxmal Pyramids in Yucatan, Mexico, with a research expedition from Tulane University. Merrill's photo collection includes images of his travels and projects, friends and family. 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 Merrill_LS00867 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1939 Title A name given to the resource Uncle Tom Trail from above Lower Falls Description An account of the resource Black and white lantern slide of the Yellowstone Lower Falls taken from the Uncle Tom Trail. Subject The topic of the resource Lantern slides Yellowstone National Park Waterfalls Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Merrill, Robert H., 1881-1955 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Robert H. Merrill papers (RHC-222) 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/jpg Language A language of the resource eng 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/b801c1b635ce3f1113f83dfc3cd939f0.jpg 6933b6dae3ac685e2a0e1c5a71ee8512 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 GVSU Concert & Event Posters Subject The topic of the resource Posters Events Michigan Universities & colleges--Michigan Description An account of the resource Division of Student Services provides programs, services, and environments that enhance the personal, social, and intellectual growth of undergraduate and graduate students at the University. Events including concerts were managed by the office of Student Life. Posters for music, speakers, poetry readings and other campuswide events are included. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. Division of Student Services Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/106">Student Services concerts, events, and posters files, (GV028-06)</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 2017-07-17 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</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 GV028-06 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1963 – 1981 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 GV028-06_vinty1 Title A name given to the resource Uncle Vinty, April 13, 1978 Subject The topic of the resource Grand Valley State University Grand Valley State College Michigan Allendale (Mich.) Universities & colleges--Michigan Events Posters Description An account of the resource Uncle Vinty, in the Grand Valley State Colleges South Commons, April 12, 1978. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg 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> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1978 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/106">Student Services concerts, events, and posters files, (GV028-06)</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. 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Division of Student Services Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/106">Student Services concerts, events, and posters files, (GV028-06)</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 2017-07-17 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</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 GV028-06 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1963 – 1981 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 GV028-06_vinty2 Title A name given to the resource Uncle Vinty, August 24, 1973 Subject The topic of the resource Grand Valley State University Grand Valley State College Michigan Allendale (Mich.) Universities & colleges--Michigan Events Posters Description An account of the resource Uncle Vinty, at Stage 3, August 24, 1973. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context UnderwoodDon Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. University Communications Title A name given to the resource Underwood, Don Description An account of the resource Don Underwood, Golf Professional 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 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/0fd1dba8e5119bee5c0057c1bd86afb6.mp4 696c9ac67b5a92f296dc84346f938df5 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/089437fb4d0a09d9ea75b4992b7519b3.pdf aaf8b66980d72ed07254d8b47930eba7 PDF Text Text Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Garry Underwood Vietnam War Interview Length: (01:59:35:00) Pre-enlistment / Training (00:00:26:00)  Underwood was born in Jackson, Michigan in March 1946, although his family lived in the small village Eden, Michigan (00:00:26:00) o While Underwood was growing up, his mother was a stay-at-home mom and his father worked at Wyeth Laboratories in nearby Mason, Michigan; at the time, Wyeth was known for making baby formula (00:01:05:00)  Originally, Underwood’s father worked in the company’s shipping and receiving department, although he was later promoted to be the supervisor of the shipping and receiving department (00:01:28:00) o Underwood’s grandmother owned a cottage in Harrison, Michigan and Underwood’s family spent a lot of time there during the summer (00:01:41:00)  Underwood attended school in Mason and graduated from high school in June 1964 (00:01:53:00) o After graduating, Underwood attended Lansing Community College to study criminal justice; apart from going to school, Underwood also worked part-time in the men’s department at a department store in Mason (00:02:00:00) o Underwood married his wife before he went into the service and she worked at a credit bureau in Mason (00:02:29:00) o Underwood ended up being drafted while still in college, so he had to wait until his enlistment was over before returning to finish it (00:02:45:00)  Underwood did not receive a deferment while attending the college because he dropped below twelve credits, which was the limit from the draft board for deferments (00:02:56:00)  Underwood received his draft notice around March 1967, with orders to report the following month (00:03:09:00) o Underwood would read the newspapers very thoroughly, so he was at least aware of what was going on in Vietnam (00:03:23:00) o When he was drafted, Underwood hoped that he would be deployed to Europe instead of Vietnam (00:03:56:00) o Underwood’s father had served during World War II and was captured by the Germans during the Battle of the Bulge (00:04:06:00)  When Underwood received his draft notice, his father was concerned, just because of what was going on in Vietnam; like Underwood, his family was hoping he would go to Europe as well (00:04:16:00) o When he received his draft notice, Underwood had not yet gone through a physical for the military (00:04:44:00) o After receiving his draft notice, Underwood went to the local draft board and was placed onboard a bus with other draftees, which then took them to Fort Wayne in Detroit (00:04:52:00) �  Once at Fort Wayne, Underwood and the other draftees went through physicals and testing (00:05:01:00)  While waiting to do the physical, Underwood saw some of the other draftees trying several different methods to try and fail the physical; some of the draftees took large amounts of salt to spike their blood pressure but all the testers would do was make the man wait and do the physical over again (00:05:20:00)  The physical the draftees went through was quite rigorous; they were forced to strip to nothing but their underwear and the doctors then proceeded to go over them “stem to stern” (00:05:51:00)  As far as Underwood could tell, the doctors were rejecting some of the draftees, with eyesight and flat feet being some of the major reasons why the doctors rejected them (00:06:08:00)  Apart from the physicals, the draftees also had to go through a battery of tests, including standard IQ tests and tests related to the different occupations with in the Army (00:06:35:00)  Based on the answers that a draftee would give, the Army would try to fit a draftee into an occupation that the Army felt the draftee would be best suited for (00:06:58:00)  However, it was not until Underwood had gotten through basic training that he was officially given an occupation, working in the mortar fire direction center (00:07:09:00) After finishing at Fort Wayne, Underwood and the other draftees were taken by train straight to basic training at Fort Knox, Kentucky (00:07:38:00) o When the men arrived in Kentucky, they were taken off the train and placed on buses; it was not until the buses reached the base that the recruits received their “welcome” from the drill instructors (00:07:49:00) o During the first few days, the recruits went through processing, with the Army taking their names, blood type, and any other information that had been sent with the recruits from Fort Wayne (00:08:07:00)  The recruits were then assigned to a training company and sent to a company barracks (00:08:21:00)  In Underwood’s company, there were a couple of other men from the Lansing area, as well as men from other parts of Michigan and surrounding states; however, Underwood mostly stuck with the two men from Lansing during the training (00:08:54:00) o On any given day during basic training, the recruits woke up, went into formation, followed by PT (physical training), after which small groups were broken off to train with different things, such as pugil sticks for bayonet training, going to the rifle range, map reading, etc. (00:09:35:00) o The drill instructors placed a lot of emphasis on discipline; in a combat zone, the men would not have time to think, only to react, and discipline got the men into that type of mindset (00:10:36:00) o It was not too difficult for Underwood to adjust to life in the Army, in particular the physical aspects, because he had been an athlete during his school days and � was not too far removed from those days that he did not remember what he needed to do (00:11:01:00)  The drill instructors had elected to make Underwood a squad leader, although he was apprehensive about the assignment because he had always heard to never volunteer for anything in the Army and to never be first or last (00:11:40:00)  Once he became a squad leader, Underwood was responsible not only for himself but also for the squad (00:11:56:00)  Underwood had never been much of an angry person and authority had never bother him, so he understood the harassment part of the training was to push the recruits (00:12:06:00)  Being a squad leader during basic training was not that big of a deal; nobody’s life was on the line (00:12:33:00)  Nevertheless, Underwood was still responsible for making sure the other recruits had everything in order; the drill instructors expected each of the squads (usually between five or six recruits) to work together to complete any tasks given to them (00:12:46:00) o Basic training lasted for eight weeks, which was capped by a graduating ceremony on the base’s parade ground and all of the recruits in the training companies, accompanied by their drill instructors (00:13:01:00)  One of Underwood’s drill instructors was a short, black man who Underwood ended up seeing again, when Underwood was deployed to Vietnam (00:13:14:00) After finishing basic training, the recruits received new orders for the next part of their training; when Underwood’s orders came and he saw he was going to Fort Polk, Louisiana, he knew where he would be headed after training (00:13:45:00) o Underwood immediately reported to Fort Polk after finishing basic training; he was not allowed to go on a leave (00:14:11:00)  In order to get to Fort Polk, Underwood and the other recruits assigned to that base flew from Fort Knox to Shreveport, Louisiana and then took buses to Fort Polk (00:14:21:00)  As the buses got closer to Fort Polk, the men started seeing bamboo fences; even the main entrance to the training area was made from bamboo and had a sign across the top that read “Tiger School” (00:14:28:00)  By the time Underwood arrived at the base, it was summer time and very hot; when the men got off the airplane in Shreveport, it was like someone slapped them in the face (00:14:51:00)  Although the heat somewhat prepared the men for Vietnam, Vietnam was on another level of heat and humidity (00:15:07:00) o Although the buildings on the base looked like any typical Army post, the terrain was entirely different than most other bases and a lot of the time, the recruits were sent into the field to train (00:15:35:00) o Although the training the men did was preparation for Vietnam, it was not what actual combat was like (00:16:06:00) �  Underwood did receive some infantry training but because of his MOS (Military Occupational Specialty), the majority of his advanced training was spent reading maps, figuring out coordinates, etc. (00:16:22:00)  Underwood’s MOS as a mortarman meant either being in the field with an infantry line unit or in the rear with the mortar tubes (00:16:50:00)  If he was in the field, Underwood would be the person calling back for not only mortars but also artillery; if he was in the rear, Underwood would be working in a fire direction center that actually called coordinates up to the guns (00:16:54:00)  On one of the last days of training, each of the men were given a dead chicken, a bag of rice, and a can of water and told to make their own dinner out of that (00:18:03:00)  After the meal, the men were sent into the “jungle” area of the base and they had to move through an area where there would be “aggressors” on either side (00:18:23:00) o If a recruit was “captured”, he would be taken to a fauxprison camp and put through some of the things that might happen in Vietnam if they were captured (00:18:42:00)  The men who made it through the entire area were told they had graduated, although the men who were captured graduated as well; Underwood himself made it through the area without being captured (00:19:04:00)  The recruits did not receive a lot of training in how to deal with the local Vietnamese civilian population; Underwood did not learn how to do that until he got to Vietnam (00:19:25:00)  The recruits did go through seminars and training about the various booby-traps the enemy might use and what the recruits needed to look for; luckily, the area where Underwood ended up being deployed to did not have a lot of booby-traps (00:19:36:00) o Most all of the instructors who were training the recruits had already served in Vietnam (00:19:54:00)  For the most part, the instructors were helpful, although they would really let a recruit know if he screwed up (00:20:04:00)  The biggest emphasis was on not screwing up and if a recruit did not screw up, then he was doing alright (00:20:11:00)  Although most of the instructors had served in Vietnam, there were a few who had not (00:20:45:00)  In Underwood’s case, one of those instructors was during basic training and according to Underwood, the instructor was a “pain in the rear end” (00:20:47:00) The advanced training at Fort Polk lasted for almost eight weeks as well; when the training was over, Underwood received a leave home and orders to report to Oakland, California (00:21:22:00) o Underwood’s leave home was for thirty days (00:21:46:00)  Whenever Underwood had graduated from a training section, his parents came to the graduation ceremony (00:21:56:00) � When Underwood came home on his leave, he and his family did not really talk about his impending deployment to Vietnam; although Underwood’s father talked about it a little bit, Underwood cannot imagine what it was like to have someone leave for a combat zone (00:22:04:00)  Underwood’s father knew what being in combat was like and his mother knew what it was like to have a loved one in a combat zone, having married Underwood’s father prior to his deployment to Europe (00:22:36:00) o Once his leave was over, Underwood flew from Lansing to Oakland (00:23:10:00)  The facility in Oakland was a huge military processing center and all the men who went through it received a battery of shots and more information about where they would be heading (00:23:18:00)  At this point, Underwood still did not know which unit he would be joining in Vietnam (00:23:38:00)  Underwood probably spent about a week in Oakland; the men could not get off the base, so apart from going to the various classes and seminars, they stayed in the barracks (00:23:48:00)  When Underwood and the other men received their orders, they knew that they were going to be deployed to Vietnam; however, they did not know where specifically in Vietnam, when they would be leaving, and how exactly they would get to Vietnam (00:24:14:00)  The men were divided into groups at the processing center and individual groups would deploy together (00:24:30:00)  While at the processing center, Underwood was assigned his uniforms and equipment, but not a weapon (00:24:47:00) o Eventually, Underwood’s group boarded a Pan-Am 737 commercial airliner, which first flew from Oakland to Hawaii, then continued to Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines and finally to Cam Ranh Bay in Vietnam (00:24:54:00) Vietnam Deployment (00:25:32:00)  The airliner arrived in Vietnam in the middle of the day, which was a good thing for the men because they could actually see what Vietnam looked like without having to wait until morning (00:25:32:00) o Underwood’s first impression of Vietnam when the airliner landed was that it was hot (00:25:51:00) o Although Cam Ranh Bay was a fairly secure area, it was still occasionally attacked by enemy mortars or rockets (00:25:57:00)  During their training, the men were given information about mortars and rockets and how to protect themselves (00:26:06:00)  During the first night, Underwood was placed on guard-duty with a fullyloaded M-14 rifle; once Underwood had the rifle in his hands, he knew that the situation was for real (00:26:20:00)  The base never actually came under mortar or rocket fire while Underwood was on it (00:26:57:00) �o Over the next couple of days, the men went through more in-country training,  including working with and firing the M-16 rifle (00:27:01:00)  Up until that point, Underwood had rarely used an M-16 in any part of his training; most of his training was still done using an M-14 (00:27:16:00)  Underwood only had an issue with an M-16 rifle jamming once and that happened part of the way through his tour; he was firing the rifle too rapidly, it jammed, and he had to use the rifle of another soldiers who had been wounded (00:27:38:00) o Underwood spent about a week at Cam Ranh Bay before finally receiving orders to his new unit (00:28:12:00)  When he arrived at Cam Ranh Bay, Underwood was told whether there was a greater need for mortarmen or regular infantry; as it turned out, there was a need for regular infantry (00:28:24:00)  There were a lot of cases of men trained in one thing, such as a cook or wiremen, but once they were in Vietnam, they were transferred to be regular infantry to fill a need (00:28:32:00) When his orders finally came down, Underwood was assigned to the 4th Infantry Division stationed in Pleiku and once at the division, he was then assigned to 1st Battalion, 8th Infantry Regiment (00:28:54:00) o To get from Cam Ranh Bay to Pleiku, Underwood flew aboard a C-130 transport airplane (00:29:06:00) o “Inside the wire” of the 4th Infantry’s position in Pleiku, it was like a regular military base, expect with a lot more sandbags to offer protection against mortars and rockets (00:29:17:00)  Although permanent barracks were built at the base while Underwood was stationed there, when Underwood first arrived at the base, the men slept in tents (00:29:31:00)  Inside the base was a large hill, nicknamed “Signal Hill” and it loomed large over the base (00:29:46:00) o Apart from Signal Hill, the area around Pleiku mostly consisted of gently rolling hills and flatland; there were not any other major hills in the area (00:29:54:00) o There was not anything special when Underwood joined his battalion; mostly, it was just that certain things needed to be done, like paperwork and Underwood getting all of his equipment together (00:30:46:00)  Underwood arrived with a duffel bag full of stuff, which was then taken and tagged so he could pick it up when he left (00:31:01:00)  It was after his duffel bag was taken that Underwood received his jungle fatigues (00:31:14:00)  When he received his jungle fatigues, Underwood was told not to wear a lot of undergarments because the high humidity would make him sweat more if he did (00:31:24:00) o After Underwood was assigned to a company, he received more training, specifically about the Vietnamese people; part of the training stressed avoid interactions with the Vietnamese prostitutes (00:31:40:00) �  When Underwood first arrived at the base, there was a small settlement set up near the base named “Sin City” and the entire population of the settlement was hookers and prostitutes (00:32:09:00)  At one point while Underwood was stationed at the base, a Senator visited the base, saw “Sin City”, claimed it was “corrupting the American GIs”, and ordered the settlement be cleared out and removed (00:32:30:00)  However, once “Sin City” was cleared out, the cases of venereal amongst the soldiers increased; at least in “Sin City”, the American doctors were taking care of any diseases (00:32:42:00)  The fact that “Sin City” was partially looked over by the doctors at Camp Enari came as a surprise to Underwood (00:32:58:00) When Underwood finally joined a company, the company was not at Camp Enari but was operating out in the field; there was a company tent on the base where the company mail clerk worked (00:33:14:00) o Once Underwood was assigned to a company, he went to the helicopter pad and rode on a helicopter out to where the company was; usually, new soldiers were flown out to the company on re-supply days (00:33:34:00) o When Underwood finally arrived at where the company had set-up its position, he was first assigned to a platoon within the company and then a squad within the platoon (00:33:53:00) o When Underwood initially joined a squad, the squad leader talked with him and when he started going out on patrols, Underwood learned more information; Underwood learned what he needed to do from the other soldiers who were already in the squad (00:34:17:00)  One thing Underwood learned was that he should not try to be John Wayne; the soldiers who tried to be John Wayne often ended up in a body bag before their tour was over (00:34:32:00) o When Underwood and the other new soldiers first joined the company, they were not immediately placed on assignments such as guard-duty (00:34:47:00)  However, Underwood joined the company during the monsoon season, which made it harder to sleep, on top of thinking about what was going to happen the following day (00:34:56:00)  The next day, the company woke up, ate breakfast, saddled up and moved out (00:35:12:00) o Underwood’s company was operating to the south of Pleiku, in slightly mountainous terrain (00:35:19:00)  The vegetation in the area tended to consist largely of forested areas mixed with areas of jungle grass; because they wanted to avoid going on the main trails, the soldiers had to do a lot of machete work to clear paths through the vegetation (00:35:36:00)  Whenever the company would set up for the night, small groups went out on patrols to see if they saw anything; during his first patrol, Underwood ended up flushing out three Vietnamese farmers (00:36:04:00)  The area where the company was operating was a free-fire zone, which meant the soldiers shot first and asked questions later; � however, for some reason, when he flushed the farmers out, Underwood did not immediately shoot (00:36:20:00) o The farmers ran away but ended up running into another patrol, who brought the three back to where the company had set-up its defensive positions (00:36:40:00) o In a free-fire zone, the civilian population was rounded up and given land and housing in a city, where they were supposed to stay until the area was clear of enemy soldiers; however, the farmers were defying those orders and still trying to farm within the zone (00:37:12:00)  One of the farmers had been carrying a Vietnamese machete, which was a length of bamboo topped with an extremely sharp blade (00:37:36:00) o Underwood ended up picking the machete up and he carried it for quite a while, before sending it back to Camp Enari so the company clerk could put it in his duffel bag; however, somebody stole it (00:37:56:00) o For the most part, when Underwood first joined the company, the majority of the enemy fire they came under was the result of hit-and-run attacks (00:38:33:00)  However, when the company received orders to return to Pleiku to transfer north to Đắk Tô, Underwood’s platoon commander, who had served as a mercenary before the war, called the platoon together and told the men that not all of them would survive (00:38:49:00) Relative to Pleiku, Đắk Tô was to the north, closer to the Vietnamese borders with Cambodia and Laos (00:39:35:00) o In order to get from Pleiku to Đắk Tô, the men first boarded trucks in Pleiku that moved out as part of a convoy (00:40:05:00)  The vegetation along the side of the road had been sprayed with Agent Orange (a defoliation chemical) and pushed back using bulldozers in order to clear the area around the road; usually, the area was one-hundred yards wide, with the road right in the middle (00:40:12:00) o All of a sudden, the convoy stopped and soon after, the platoon leader and company commander informed the men that they were going to be doing a combat assault (00:40:58:00)  The soldiers disembarked from the trucks and pulled on their rucksacks, which were heavy (00:41:13:00)  As part of the combat assault, the soldiers were meant to be a blocking force against an NVA (North Vietnamese Army) division that had been spotted in the area (00:41:37:00)  That night, following the combat assault, the soldiers dug in and Underwood ended up cutting his leg with his entrenching tool as he dug his position (00:41:54:00)  The men had been dropped off on the top of a mountain and they were expected to dig foxholes for fighting positions (00:42:12:00)  Although it was possible to dig the foxholes on the mountain, it was very hard work because of all the rocks (00:42:22:00) � As he dug, Underwood had placed his entrenching tool in the “chopping mode” and was chopping at the dirt in order to loosen it up somewhat (00:42:42:00) o However, he bounced the entrenching tool off a rock and it went straight into his leg, leaving a cut a couple of inches long (00:42:48:00)  Although the cut would not have been a big deal back home in the United States, in Vietnam it was a whole different story and overnight, an infection set in (00:43:06:00) o The day after he cut his leg, Underwood went back to the battalion headquarters in Đắk Tô and sent to a medic, who would take care of the wound (00:43:22:00)  However, as Underwood was getting off the helicopter, enemy mortar rounds were landing nearby (00:43:41:00)  Once they were off the helicopter, Underwood and another who was also onboard hurried to the company area and got into a bunker (00:43:46:00)  It seemed like Underwood and the other soldier were in the bunker forever because the mortar rounds kept coming in; the enemy was “marching” the mortar rounds up the runway to get a C-130 that was sitting at the end of the runway (00:44:05:00)  Eventually, the enemy zeroed in on the airstrip’s ammo dump, which went off in a massive explosion; the explosion caused Underwood and the other soldier, who were seventy-five to onehundred yards away, to bounce in the air and somehow switch positions within the bunker (00:44:26:00)  When the two came out of the bunker, the tents where they were supposed to be staying looked like Swiss cheese from all of the flying shrapnel (00:44:56:00)  Eventually, the soldiers found out that the barber who was working on the base was calling in the mortar rounds, so they arrested him and turned him over to the South Vietnamese (00:45:25:00)  At the time, it was quite a common sight to see South Vietnamese working on the bases (00:46:19:00) o The base at Đắk Tô was the brigade headquarters for the 1st and 2nd Brigades of the 4th Infantry; the 3rd Brigade was brought up to the base later, along with the 173rd Airborne Brigade (00:46:51:00) o Underwood ended up spending about ten days in Đắk Tô for treatment for the infection from the cut on his leg (00:47:22:00)  The treatment consisted of daily antibiotic shots along with having Underwood soak his leg once or twice a day (00:47:27:00) o Once the infection was healed, Underwood took a helicopter flight out and rejoined his company; Underwood rejoined the company around November 1st, 1967 (00:47:47:00) o When Underwood rejoined the company, the company was operating as a whole and going on “search-and-destroy” missions (00:48:15:00) � The various missions just became the soldiers attacking one mountain after another; in some cases, the mountains were so steep that the men needed trees to try to pull themselves up (00:48:26:00)  The men were carrying packs that weighed close to 100lbs; the packs were so large, if one was on the ground, a soldier had to sit on the ground just to get into it properly, then roll onto his knees to stand-up (00:48:42:00)  In the packs, the soldiers had to carry: grenades, canteens (Underwood carried four), two ten-magazine bandoleers of ammunition, LAWs (Light, Anti-Tank Weapons), and enough CRations (food) to last each of the men for three to four days; as well, the men had to carry their personal equipment (00:49:01:00)  The soldiers did not carry much in terms of additional clothing; every other re-supply, a huge bag of fresh clothing would be flown out and the men would rifle through the bag until they found a pair of pants and a shirt that fit (00:50:27:00)  Occasionally, the soldiers would make contact with the enemy but again, it was mostly hit-and-run attacks; it was just enough to remind the soldiers that they were being watched (00:50:56:00)  As well, the men also had to be aware of any wild animals in the area; at one point, the men found a panther in a tree and once they had past, a couple men went back and shot it (00:51:18:00) o The panthers were known to track people as they moved through the jungle (00:51:34:00)  If the enemy were ever in a company-sized area or larger, there were often bunkers, so it was hard for the Americans to ever really surprise them that way (00:52:13:00) o Normally, successful surprise attacks came when the American forces managed to set up ambushes that the enemy soldiers walked into (00:52:29:00) o Outside of Đắk Tô was a hill that had been designated Hill 875 and when Underwood’s company arrived in the area, they took part in an operation to take control of the hill (00:52:52:00)  The 173rd Airborne had been trying to take the hill before and finally succeeded on Thanksgiving day; during the operation, the 4th Infantry was coming up the opposite side of the hill (00:52:59:00)  However, once the 173rd Airborne took the hill, the remaining NVA forces vanished (00:53:13:00)  The hill had been bombarded so much with air and artillery strikes that only a single tree remained on it (00:53:22:00)  On average, Underwood’s company might loss two or three soldiers a day, depending on how often they ran into the enemy and how larger the enemy forces were (00:53:32:00)  During the attack on Hill 875, the soldiers were facing an entire NVA division; the 173rd Airborne in particular was hard-hit during the fighting (00:53:39:00) �Prior to moving north to Đắk Tô, the 173rd had been fighting the Viet Cong in the south; however, once at Đắk Tô, the soldiers were told that they were facing North Vietnamese Army regulars, who were not going to cut and run like the Viet Cong (00:53:57:00) o The commanders in the 4th Infantry had a better understanding of the situation because they had been incountry longer than the 173rd Airborne (00:54:37:00) Normally, officers stayed with a unit in the field for six months before rotating back to the rear area (00:54:57:00) o Underwood’s original platoon leader, the former mercenary, stayed as the platoon leader for six months and on the day he was supposed to leave the field, he was killed (00:55:21:00)  Underwood’s squad had been put out on an ambush the night before but the squad leader accidentally to the wrong ambush site; that night, the firebase where the unit was on ended up being mortared from an area close to where the original ambush site (00:55:36:00)  When the commanders figured out what was happening, Underwood’s squad was called back to the firebase (00:56:08:00)  Once the squad was back on the firebase, the squad leader was grilled by the company commander and the platoon leader; they both knew where the squad was supposed to be for the ambush and they also knew that the squad had gone short (00:56:23:00)  The next morning, Underwood’s platoon went in force up the hill to see what was up there (00:56:48:00)  Just before the soldiers got to the summit, the platoon leader had them stop, got a handful of volunteers, and the smaller group went forward to recon the rest of the hill (00:56:58:00)  The smaller group was not gone for too long before “all hell broke loose” at the top of the hill (00:57:21:00)  Once the shooting started at the top of the hill, the remain soldiers moved forward because they knew that there were dead and/or wounded soldiers at the summit (00:57:34:00)  When Underwood reached the top of the hill, he came across the body of the platoon leader; during the fighting, the platoon leader had called in artillery but a round landed too close to him and took part of his head off (00:57:52:00) o The body was lying in a small dip, so Underwood and a couple of other soldiers tried to pull it out; although it would not have been much trouble if the soldiers were standing, trying to do so while lying on the ground was difficult (00:58:14:00) o Underwood ended up having to get on his knees at one point, at which point an enemy round hit a piece of bamboo next to his face, causing splinters to go into the corner of his eye (00:58:32:00) o  �The soldiers eventually managed to get the platoon leader’s body off the summit, placed the body in a body-bag, and carried the body back to the firebase (00:58:51:00)  The attack on the summit was around January 1968, just before the beginning of the Tet Offensive (00:59:21:00) During Christmas 1967 and Tet 1968, there were supposed to be stand-downs, even amongst the North Vietnamese forces (00:59:46:00) o During the stand-downs, hot food, and maybe even dessert and a glass of fresh milk, was brought out to the soldiers (01:00:01:00) o At Christmas, one man from the company was chosen to go back to Pleiku to watch a Bob Hope comedy show (01:00:17:00) During the attack on the hilltop when Underwood’s platoon leader was killed, the men were facing off with a North Vietnamese regiment that had dug into the hilltop; however, they did not find that out until they attacked the hill as a full company, although by then, the North Vietnamese had left (01:00:55:00) After the attack on the hilltop, Underwood’s company had to follow a series of B52 strikes all the way to the Vietnamese border (01:01:20:00) o Following behind B-52 strikes was not fun for the soldiers because they had to navigate shatter bamboo, amongst other things (01:01:31:00) When coming upon bunkers that the North Vietnamese had abandoned, the soldiers never found any that the North Vietnamese had bobby-trapped (01:01:53:00) o Most of the bunkers were just left, possibly so that the North Vietnamese could return later and use them again (01:01:57:00) o On occasion, the soldiers would use explosives to destroy some of the bunkers they found (01:02:05:00) The state of an area following a B-52 strike largely depended on the size of the bombs used in the strike, either 500lbers or 2500lbers (01:02:29:00) o Whenever there was a B-52 strike, the soldiers could not be too close to the area being bombed; when the strike would happen, the ground shook and the soldiers could be six klicks (kilometers) away and still feel it (01:02:44:00) o Often, the B-52 strikes would cause the bamboo and surround trees to catch on fire; the soldiers had to pick their way through the area in order to avoid some of the worst destruction (01:03:02:00) o Usually, B-52 strikes were only called for when commanders were sure there were a large concentration of enemy soldiers in a single area; after the strike(s), the soldiers would move in to find any dead North Vietnamese (01:03:22:00)  Although the soldiers would usually find a few bodies, they never found many, because the North Vietnamese would often carry away any wounded (01:03:41:00) Apart from B-52 strikes, the soldiers also tried to destroy bunkers by placing grenades on their roofs to get the roofs to collapse (01:03:58:00) Due to the high heat and humidity, it did not take long for bodies to decompose; often, the soldiers would walk into an area and the stench would be unbearable (01:04:17:00) o On a couple of occasions, the soldiers found mass graves for enemy soldiers and they had to dig up some of the bodies to count them (01:04:37:00) o        �  When Underwood’s platoon leader was killed, his replacement was already with the unit and was learning what he would need to do; the replacement was an officer fresh from the States, just out of OCS (Officer Candidate School) (01:05:25:00) As Underwood got further into his tour, his attitude became a mixture of determination, along with a healthy dose of fear (01:05:55:00) o The fear was a big part of Underwood’s attitude; the fear that the next step could be his last (01:06:05:00) o Although soldiers are killed during war, they are not always killed by the enemy; accidental friendly fire was always a possibility (01:06:26:00)  Once, a 500lb bomb was accidentally dropped short of its target and it landed on a listening post, killing all three of the soldiers who were manning the post (01:06:37:00)  The soldiers were warned to fold the pins back on their grenades so bamboo would not get caught in them and accidentally pull the pins out; however, a couple of soldiers did not and they ended up dying when the pins on their grenades were accidentally pulled out (01:06:47:00) Tet Offensive / End of Tour (01:07:23:00)  When the Tet Offensive began at the end of January 1968, Underwood’s company was positioned on a firebase to provide security for the firebase (01:07:23:00) o Apart from some enemy probing, the firebase where the company was located was never directly attacked (01:07:36:00) o However, there was a firebase in the distance that Underwood could see was under heavy enemy attack in an attempt to overrun the firebase (01:07:44:00)  During the night, “Snoopy” was out and there was a lot of American artillery being launched in support of the firebase; although the firebase was never overrun, the soldiers were mauled pretty bad (01:05:54:00)  “Snoopy” was a gunship with a Gatling gun mounted inside that was capable of covering every square inch of a football field with gunfire (01:08:14:00) o Whenever “Snoopy” would fire, it sounded like a lowpitched groan (01:08:25:00) o Every seventh bullet in the Gatling gun was a tracer-round; whenever the gun fired, all the men saw was a red line from the gunship to the ground because the bullets were shooting so fast (01:08:31:00) o “Snoopy” would just fly in a circle around the firebase, firing the Gatling gun (01:08:40:00) o Once the Tet Offensive really started going, Underwood’s unit was re-assigned to the Kontum province to clear any enemy forces out of the area; although the 1st Cavalry Division had cleared the area previously, Underwood’s unit was sent in to see if they could find any enemy strongpoints (01:09:04:00)  Ultimately, the soldiers did not find much in the way of an enemy presence in the area (01:09:25:00)  By the end of offensive, Underwood’s unit had advanced so far that they had ended up entering a couple of clicks into Cambodia (01:09:40:00) �  Long-range patrols had come back saying that the North Vietnamese were trying to cut a new road through Cambodia, so Underwood’s unit was sent to investigate (01:09:54:00)  Although the unit did not lose anybody during the time they were in Cambodia, they managed to kill quite a few North Vietnamese personnel (01:10:09:00)  When the unit stopped for the night, there was a hill between the new road and the main Ho Chi Minh trail, further to the west (01:10:25:00) o During the night, the guards on the perimeter could hear elephants and trucks moving along the trail (01:10:41:00)  Apart from a single sniper in a tree, who managed to wound one soldier before being shot out of the tree, the majority of the North Vietnamese forces were engineers (01:10:50:00)  When the soldiers were finally pulled out of Cambodia, they were flown by helicopter back to a firebase, while B-52 strikes were called in to destroy the new road (01:11:21:00) Following the end of the Tet Offensive, Underwood’s unit stayed in the Kontum area until March 1968, when the unit was sent to a firebase that the enemy had overrun during the offensive (01:11:46:00) o There were four soldiers missing from the unit that had been previously stationed on the firebase and Underwood’s unit’s assignment was to find the four soldiers (01:12:06:00) o Once they landed by helicopter at the firebase, all the soldiers quickly spread out, before moving along a finger on a ridgeline (01:12:20:00)  However, the soldiers had not gone more than fifty to one hundred yards before four soldiers at the front of the column were killed (01:12:36:00) o The soldiers pulled back and first called in artillery, then an airstrike, before advancing back up the hill (01:12:42:00) o In the company, the point position rotated amongst the soldiers and during the second advance up the hill, it was Underwood’s turn to be “on point”; although Underwood would be “on point”, he said the company was going to advance at his pace (01:13:01:00) o Underwood and a friend took as many grenades as they could and started advancing up the hill; whenever they came to a bunker, they destroyed it with the grenades (01:13:10:00) o Eventually, once the entire company made it to the top of the hill, the soldiers began setting up a perimeter because the company was going to spend the night on the top of the hill (01:13:27:00)  However, because Underwood and his friend had led the way up the hill, they did not have to help set up the perimeter; instead, the two were told to help gather and stack water containers that a helicopter was going to be flying in (01:13:48:00) o As Underwood and his friend were stacking the containers, the area came under enemy fire (01:14:12:00) �o Although the company managed to successfully repel the enemy attack, at the   start of the attack, Underwood’s rifle was leaning against a nearby tree (01:14:38:00)  Underwood was lying on the ground when all of a sudden, he heard a rattling noise; looking up, Underwood watched as an RPG round with a stuck fin came down and landed next to his leg (01:14:53:00)  Underwood looked back at the company commander, whose eyes had gotten big; although he told Underwood not to move, Underwood ignored him and leaped away from the round (01:15:11:00)  The RPG round was so embedded in the ground that when Underwood jumped away, it just stayed there (01:15:26:00) o After the attack, the company stayed on alert throughout the night (01:16:04:00)  During the middle of the night, all of a sudden, a trip flare went off; the flare had been set off by a North Vietnamese soldier who was leaving the hilltop (01:16:15:00)  The soldier had been in a tree when the Americans took the hilltop and had stayed in the tree the whole time, until he thought all the Americans were asleep (01:16:23:00)  As a result of being on point during the advance up the hill, Underwood ended up being awarded a Bronze Star (01:17:07:00)  Underwood figures there were probably fifty enemy bunkers on the hill, twenty-five on each side, and during the advance, Underwood figures he destroyed ten or eleven (01:17:17:00) o When Underwood later went for a PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) exam, the doctor asked what was in the bunkers; Underwood told him that he never looked because he did not want to know (01:17:35:00) o If someone were in one the bunkers, they were not there once Underwood finished with the bunker (01:17:56:00) o Apart from those destroyed by Underwood, the artillery and airplane strikes also did a good job in destroying a large number of the bunkers (01:18:10:00) When Underwood first joined his company in the field, it was at the beginning of the monsoon season; normally, the monsoons began in September and lasted through November (01:18:32:00) o Underwood did not truly know what it meant to be wet until he went through the monsoons; although the men could wear ponchos, those just made the men sweat (01:18:46:00) o On occasion, it would be raining and all of a sudden, the rain would stop and the sun would come out; during those times, it would be so hot that it would dry the soldier’s clothes (01:19:04:00) After the hilltop fight where Underwood earned his Bronze Star, his company continued its usual routine of going onto a firebase for seven to ten days before going back into the field for thirty days (01:19:38:00) o The companies did rotate as to which company would provide security for the firebase (01:19:52:00) �  Whenever the soldiers were on a firebase, they would always be given assignments by the commanders, such as “enhancing the perimeter” with increased mines, wire, flares, etc. (01:20:01:00)  The soldiers also had some free time while on the firebase, during which they could write letters home, etc. (01:20:17:00)  Underwood usually wrote letters a couple of times a week and received letters a couple of times a week; usually, one of the letters was from his parents and another was from his wife (01:20:24:00)  Apart from the letters, Underwood also received care packages from his parents and wife; for the most part, Underwood asked them to send him food, such as sausages, cookies, and smoked oysters or clams (01:20:45:00)  For Underwood’s birthday, his family sent him a bottle of liquor, which they technically not supposed to do; his family warped the bottle in aluminum foil to trick the x-ray scanners (01:21:06:00) o When the bottle arrived, each of the men had some to drink but because they were still in the field, none of them were drunk (01:21:22:00)  Whenever there was a resupply, each man was given two cans of beer, which was offset by the fact that they had to drink the beer warm (01:21:33:00)  After Underwood found his platoon commander’s body, he was pretty shaky and someone offered him a cigarette to calm him down; although the cigarette did not calm Underwood down, he smoked for the rest of his tour (01:21:53:00) Underwood’s time in Vietnam solely involved doing operations in the field until the end of July 1968 (01:22:23:00) o At that time, a sergeant joined the company and Underwood became pretty god friends with him; eventually, the sergeant received a transfer into the brigade headquarters (01:22:33:00)  A couple of days later, orders came in for Underwood to transfer back to the brigade headquarters as well; Underwood did so and was given the position of “officer of the guard” for the battalion area (01:22:57:00)  By the time Underwood transferred back to the brigade headquarters, he was a sergeant (01:23:21:00) o During May 1968, before Underwood went back to the brigade headquarters, the fighting intensified (01:23:45:00)  The way the Vietnamese border was, the North Vietnamese forces would withdraw into Laos or Cambodia, rest and resupply, then attack back into Vietnam (01:23:49:00) o From Underwood’s perspective, it looked as though the Americans were winning the war, up until the Tet Offensive began (01:24:20:00)  To Underwood, the idiotic thing was that the soldiers would fight to take a hill, they would leave the hill once it had been taken, and the enemy would move right back in (01:24:25:00) �  Over time, Underwood began building the idea that the fighting was “crazy” and he questioned why the operations were happening the way that they were (01:24:50:00) o For the most part, everyone in Underwood’s company was on the straight and narrow; the company did not have that much trouble with drug usage, although there was some (01:25:12:00)  When Underwood finally got to be a squad leader, he told the men in his squad that if they used drugs, they did not have to worry about just the enemy shooting at them, but also Underwood himself (01:25:24:00)  Any drug use that did occur was when the soldiers were on down time in a firebase (01:25:36:00) o Underwood’s company largely operated in areas so remote that there were not even villages, although there were native Montagnard tribes; for the most part, Underwood trusted the Montagnard soldiers more than he trusted the South Vietnamese soldiers (01:25:46:00) o Eventually, Underwood’s platoon had to re-take the hill where the old platoon commander was killed (01:26:27:00)  The second attack on the hill resulted in a couple of soldiers being killed and a large number being wounded; by the time the soldiers came down from the hill, there were maybe half a dozen who had not been wounded in some way (01:26:39:00)  Normally, a platoon was supposed to have thirty soldiers but Underwood’s normally operated with around twenty-four or twenty-five (01:27:11:00) o On occasion, the individual platoons in the company would go out on their own to perform missions; often the platoons would be broken down further into individual squads (01:27:35:00)  There were always the nightly ambushes and often, the commanders often sent the men several klicks away from the firebase in order to set up their ambush (01:27:41:00)  However, if the soldiers ran into enemy opposition, they might have a long fight to get back to the firebase (01:27:57:00)  Typically on an ambush, claymore mines would be set up along with trip flares; normally, there would be a handful of soldiers armed with M-16 rifles and if they were lucky, a soldier armed with an M-60 machine gun (01:28:20:00)  Once the soldiers sprung the ambush, they got out of the area rather quickly because the next phase of the ambush was either an airstrike or artillery barrage (01:28:42:00) Underwood stayed in the field for as long as he could before he took an R&R (Rest and Recuperation), so that when he returned from the R&R, he would not have long to go on his tour (01:28:56:00) o Underwood ended up taking his R&R in June 1968, so that when he returned, he only had July, August, and September until his tour ended (01:29:17:00) o For his R&R, Underwood ended up going to Hawaii, where he met up with his wife (01:29:32:00) �     While on the R&R, Underwood had to metaphorically pinch himself to make sure that he was not dreaming (01:29:49:00)  There was a large military population in Hawaii and it was not until Underwood returned to the mainland United States after his tour that he ran into anti-war protestors (01:29:56:00) o When Underwood returned to Vietnam, he was probably even more cautious than he had been before he went on the R&R (01:30:39:00) Although Underwood’s company was originally slated to go to a rear area for a stand-down, that never happened (01:30:57:00) Underwood did notice that there were some racial tensions amongst the other soldiers in his unit (01:31:17:00) o For Underwood, race was not really a problem; in fact, his best friend in the unit was a black man (01:31:22:00)  However, there were some other men in the unit from Mississippi and when one of them made an insensitive remark, Underwood told the soldier that ought to keep those remarks to himself (01:31:27:00) While Underwood was working as officer of the guard at the brigade headquarters, he would have to go out on a daily basis and scatter the Vietnamese civilians who were going through the base’s dump (01:32:18:00) o As well, it was Underwood’s responsibility to set the guard every day, which usually consisted of newly-arrived soldiers who were waiting for their chance to go into the field (01:32:41:00)  When Underwood assigned soldiers to a bunker, the soldiers were supposed to have a live clip of ammunition in their rifles but not a round in the chamber (01:32:50:00)  One night, Underwood was woken up by the MPs (Military Police) around two o’clock in the morning and taken out to a bunker where one of the guards had shot himself in the foot (01:33:07:00)  As a result of the incident, Underwood had to do a large amount of paperwork and the soldier ended up receiving a court-martial (01:33:25:00) o By and large, there were not any more issues with moral than there were when Underwood was in the field (01:33:51:00)  For the most part, when not on-duty, Underwood and the other guards played a lot of cards (01:34:02:00)  Underwood ended up playing cards with the doctor who had treated the infected wound on Underwood’s leg (01:34:15:00) o For the most part, the base where the brigade headquarters was located was pretty secure, although it was later over-run by North Vietnamese forces; there were occasional mortar rounds that the enemy would lob in (01:34:36:00) Eventually, Underwood received orders that he would be rotating home and he was sent down to Biên Hòa for out-processing (01:35:22:00) o Once they went through out-processing, Underwood and the other soldiers who were scheduled to go home had to wait until an airliner arrived at the field in Biên Hòa (01:35:46:00) �o While they still at Camp Enari in Pleiku, Underwood and some of the other  soldiers who were rotating home went to the base’s NCO club and became quite drunk (01:36:04:00)  The men returned to their bunks and within two or three hours, the base came under an enemy rocket attack (01:36:14:00) Underwood’s company did do operations with Montagnard soldiers, although the men had to be careful when they worked with the Montagnards (01:36:44:00) o The soldiers could set up an artillery barrage to help the Montagnards in a battle but if the Montagnards decided they wanted to move to a different location, they were going to move to a different location (01:36:53:00) o For the most part, the Montagnards were scouts for the soldiers (01:37:09:00)  One time, the soldiers sent out a patrol made entirely of Montagnards and when the patrol was over, the natives called back to say that they would be coming back in (01:37:12:00)  The soldiers relaxed to watch the patrol come back in, when all of sudden, gunfire broke out; the Montagnards ended up putting one bullet into the monkey they had been aiming at (01:37:23:00)  Sometimes, the soldiers would receive useful intelligence from the Montagnards and sometimes, they would not (01:37:53:00) o Apart from using the Montagnards, the soldiers would also go out with scout dogs on patrol; for the most part, the dogs were really effective at finding where the enemy had already been (01:37:57:00) o Underwood’s company also worked with South Vietnamese Kit Carson Scouts, who were pretty good, for the most part; if the soldiers found something and got in a firefight, the scouts fought right along with them (01:38:32:00)  The majority of the scouts did not speak English; normally, there was one scout who could speak English and would translate between the soldiers and the scouts (01:38:58:00) End of Enlistment / Post-Military Life (01:39:28:00)  On the flight from Vietnam back to the United States, once the airliner was out of Vietnamese air-space, there was a big cheer from the soldiers onboard (01:39:28:00) o After leaving Cam Ranh Bay, the airliner flew to Japan first in order to replace a faulty engine, then to Alaska and finally back to San Francisco (01:39:44:00) o Once in San Francisco, the airliner landed at the San Francisco International Airport (01:40:15:00)  The airliner was parked away from the terminal, which meant the soldiers had to deplane and walk to the terminal (01:40:43:00)  It was the walk from the airliner to the terminal that Underwood had his first experience with anti-war protestors (01:40:52:00)  Once the terminal, the soldiers were given new uniforms to wear and taken out to a steak dinner before being given a hotel room of their choosing (01:41:13:00) o After he had returned to the United States, Underwood was given a thirty-day leave (01:41:48:00) �    After his leave was over, Underwood still had six months remaining on his enlistment, so he was sent to Fort Bragg, North Carolina to be a drill instructor (01:41:55:00) o When Underwood first arrived at the base, he was put in a replacement company and almost immediately, was given a live pistol and ordered to take another soldier to the courthouse (01:42:02:00) o While taking the tests when he first enlisted, Underwood scored high in the medical aspects and while at Fort Bragg, the dental detachment on the base needed workers (01:42:51:00)  Underwood was asked if he wanted to work in the clinic, 7-to-4, five days a week, and he said “yes” (01:43:10:00) o During the time Underwood was a drill instructor, he acted the same way as his drill instructors had (01:43:36:00) o One of the soldiers who lived across the street from Underwood’s tent had also just returned from Vietnam and Underwood suspects that soldier did not do too much around the base (01:43:47:00) o When Underwood’s thirty-day leave ended, he and his wife drove down to North Carolina and ended up getting a duplex just off of the base (01:44:29:00) The Army did put in an effort to try to get Underwood to re-enlist; even while he was in Vietnam, the Army offered him a promotion to E-6 and an assignment as the base carpenter (01:45:02:00) o However, Underwood figured that he would only have the carpentry job until one of the squads lost its leader, at which point he would be going back into the field (01:45:12:00) Eventually, the orders came down that Underwood would be receiving his discharge from the Army (01:45:48:00) o The out-processing from the Army was a lot like the in-processing, although during the out-processing, the soldiers were giving back everything that belonged to the Army (01:46:55:00) When Underwood was finally out of the Army, he and his wife drove home to Michigan, going through Washington D.C. and rural Pennsylvania (01:46:25:00) o Once he was back home in Michigan, Underwood took some time to become readjusted to civilian life before going to look for a job (01:46:46:00)  Although Underwood was told the job he had been working at prior to enlisting was still available, he wanted to go somewhere where he could make a little more money (01:47:02:00)  Underwood ended up going to work for a company that did insurance investigations (01:47:12:00)  Underwood stayed at the investigation company for five years before going to work for a bank for a short period of time; however, the job at the bank was not paying well, so Underwood went to work at Sparrow Hospital in Lansing for another five years (01:47:41:00) o While working at the hospital, Underwood went back to school and finished his associates degree (01:48:04:00) o As a result of the initial encounter with anti-war protestors in San Francisco, Underwood was edgier around people (01:48:40:00) � While in San Francisco, Underwood and six or seven other soldiers stopped in a bar to have a beer while waiting for the airliner to leave; however, the bartender asked them to step to the back because they were “bad for business” (01:49:05:00)  After stopping one of the soldiers who tried to jump over the bar to hit the bartender, the men ended up leaving the bar and going somewhere else (01:49:20:00)  When Underwood got to the airport in Detroit, there was not a problem because he was with his family (01:49:36:00)  Back in Eden, Underwood’s family and some of the neighbors had hung a banner welcoming him home (01:49:42:00)  Underwood learned not to tell others that he was a Vietnam veteran, although he did put the information on job applications; for the most part, the information was pretty well-received (01:50:01:00) o Quite a while after he had returned, Underwood joined the VFW (Veterans of Foreign Wars), although he let his membership lapse for several years; however, three or four years prior to the interview, he became more involved in the organization (01:50:24:00)  When Underwood first tried to join the organization, the post he tried to join was willing to accept him as a Vietnam veteran (01:50:45:00) o During the 1970’s, after his first divorce, Underwood joined a group at a Community Mental Health facility in Mason (01:51:03:00)  As part of the group, Underwood had access to individual consoling as well as group consoling (01:51:20:00)  Underwood was part of the group for eight or nine months before the funds dried up (01:51:30:00) o About six years prior to the interview, Underwood was diagnosed with Type II diabetes as a result of his exposure to Agent Orange (01:51:47:00)  One day, Underwood went into the VA (Veterans Administration) clinic in Lansing and when the nurse asked if Underwood was receiving compensation, he said he was not (01:52:10:00)  The nurse told Underwood to go to the local VA office to talk with a counselor, who would put in the paperwork for Underwood (01:52:23:00)  Underwood initially planned to ask for compensation for the diabetes but when he was talking with the consoler, he mentioned that he was a recovering alcoholic (01:52:34:00)  The counselor asked about the drinking and Underwood explained that he had been having nightmares and the drinking was the only way he could quite them (01:52:48:00)  The counselor said she would also put in an application for PTSD and wanted Underwood to talk with the office’s psychiatrist; the psychiatrist ran Underwood through a battery of tests and diagnosed him with PTSD, although they had to wait for Underwood to go through an official interview (01:53:04:00)  The official interview to determine if Underwood suffered from PTSD was done by a psychiatrist in Battle Creek, Michigan (01:53:32:00) �   When Underwood got into the interview, one of the questions the psychiatrist asked him if he had seem the enemy; when Underwood said sometimes, the psychiatrist asked what the enemy were wearing (01:53:47:00)  The psychiatrist asked about Underwood’s father and after Underwood explained what had happened to his father, the psychiatrists seemed fascinated with that and kept asking questions about it (01:54:13:00)  Underwood came out of the official interview disgruntled and when he received his rating, it was only 30% (01:54:28:00)  Underwood appealed the rating and had to go to Detroit (01:54:47:00)  While he was waiting for the appeal, Underwood received a phone call from the VA wanting to know if he wanted to go to Detroit for his evaluation (01:55:01:00) o Underwood had initially asked for a video-taped interview in front of the entire evaluation board but the phone call was to be in front of a judge (01:55:17:00)  Underwood went to talk with the judge and explained that he did not even have all of the records he needed; the judge agreed to wait for sixty days so Underwood could get his records organized, which he did (01:55:27:00)  Apart from the diabetes and PTSD, Underwood also had to have a hearing aid as a result of his time in Vietnam and contracted malaria once he had returned home (01:56:07:00)  Eventually, Underwood ended up transferring from the VA clinic in Lansing to the VA clinic in Ann Arbor, which had/has phenomenal treatment compared to the clinic in Lansing (01:56:53:00)  Underwood ended up receiving glasses, a hearing aid, shoes for his diabetes, and is re-checked every six months (01:57:08:00) Underwood’s time in the military, particularly the year deployment in Vietnam, showed him what he was capable of enduring, which was more than most people think they can endure (01:57:35:00) o The discipline that he and the other soldiers had to go through did not really hurt any of them; if everyone could be made to go through the discipline without having to fight a war, Underwood thinks it would be a good thing (01:57:54:00)  It made Underwood try to do things in a disciplined manner, a trait he carried for the rest of his life (01:58:14:00) By the time of the interview, Underwood was serving as junior vice-commander of his VFW post and was greatly involved in working with other veterans (01:58:44:00) � 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/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context UnderwoodG1474V Title A name given to the resource Underwood, Garry (Interview outline and video), 2013 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Underwood, Garry Description An account of the resource Garry Underwood was born in Jackson, Michigan in March 1946. He started college after high school, but did not do well enough to keep his deferment, and was drafted in 1967. He trained as a mortarman, but when he arrived in Vietnam in the fall of 1967, he was assigned as a rifleman to the 4th Infantry Division at Pleiku. He participated in numerous patrols and larger operations in late 1967 and early 1968, including a number of fights around Dak To. His platoon took heavy losses, especially immediately before and during the Tet Offensive of 1968 and during the "mini-Tet" in May. Toward the end of his deployment, he was put in charge of perimeter guards at his brigade's base camp. 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. Army Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American 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 2013-01-22 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/8e9c7460d89c14f16cdbf5e4a99fd2bf.m4v e2f8c0cede472a23fef9aa72e716b707 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/641c328ac5ee4dd21de8eefcba809e86.pdf 13020b5dcbb8a58213f7e6d0f57c681d PDF Text Text Grand Valley State University Veterans’ History Project Dick Unger Korean War Era 30 minutes 25 seconds (00:00:11) Early Life -Born in Polo, Illinois in 1931. -The youngest of four boys. -Enlisted November 1st 1951. -Family consisted of farmers. -Driving home while news from Pearl Harbor was played on the radio. -Wasn‟t following world news of War too closely as he was quite young. -The war movie Fall of Bataan (1943) made an impression on him. -Nearly 19 years old as of high school graduation. -Working on family farm. -Due to his drafting being imminent, he decided to enlist into the Air Force. -Signed up through recruiter in Sterling, Illinois. (00:03:10) Air Force Work in Texas and Alabama -Sent to Lackland field San Antonio, Texas. -Air Force was taking anybody that would enlist no particular requirements. -Went by train to Texas. -Lackland was too full, sent to Wichita Falls for basic training. -Time at Lackland spent waiting to be sent elsewhere. Cleaning etc. -Training at Wichita Falls: physical exercise, drills, class work, gas mask training, movie instruction, parades, rifle shooting. -Conditioning to acclimate to military lifestyle. -Discipline would consist of extra duty. -Typically nothing too bad if it‟s not flagrant. -Training lasted about six weeks. -After training received a clerks MOS -Sent to Brookley Air Force base in Mobile Alabama. -Brookley was a MATS base (military air transport service). -A point of departure for shipping out to canal zone and Puerto Rico. -Role consisted of: doing paperwork, helping personnel get housing, medical care, etc. -For all military personnel not just air force. -Office employees consisted of Air Force workers. -Living in base housing at that time. -Six months after working as a clerk he was sent to a personnel school in St. Louis. -Learned typing skills, military records keeping. -After returning from personnel training sent to transport squadron. -During this initial six months period acted as a “gopher”. -Living on base offered ability to go into town to Mobile. -Segregation was new to him. �-While riding the bus a black friend was required to sit in the back. -Air Force had racially integrated on the base itself. -The experience of segregation was unwelcome but the unfortunate status quo. (00:10:00) -Unclear why he was sent for personnel training. Served some need the Air Force had. -Personnel training: learning various forms about individuals, entering forms, keeping count of staff and individuals. -Returned to Brookley and remained until summer of 1954. -Now he was married to a woman from his hometown. -Living off base. -Re-assigned around July 1954 to Kelly Field reserve officer headquarters in Texas. -Followed the War news only generally, not in great detail. -Wasn‟t at risk to be sent overseas or into combat action. -Worked with civilian and military personnel. -Kitchen was operated by civilians. -Morale was quite good. -Job was 8‟ to „5, except for guard duty. -A typical day: wake up around 6:30. Make bed, store gear. Breakfast. Work clerk duties. Lunch. Finish by 4~5. -Plenty of work to do. Records constantly being updated. -Office dealt with the Caribbean area, not the Korean or Japanese areas. -Focused on transporting materials. -Assignment with Brookley lasted about two and a half to three years. -At this time had a “Buck” Sergeant rank (three stripes). -Made Staff Sergeant while at Kelly. -Continued to live off base. Took a travel trailer to Kelly field in Texas. -Not many other military personnel lived off base in the trailer park. -Wife was working in a factory that made moisture absorbent packaging. -Passed away due to a brain tumor after about a week. -Married for two and a half years. -He was 23 years old. -As a result of his wife‟s death he met a Methodist chaplain which led to an interest in teaching children. -Nearing end of enlistment wasn‟t applying to colleges. -Returned to Polo, Illinois. (00:21:00) Post Military Life -Began dating a woman from Midland, Michigan. -Moved to Midland to establish residency to attend school as resident. -Worked misc. jobs in Midland: such as a lumber yard. -Commercial painting carried him through school. -Utilized the GI Bill which was a great help. -Attended Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant, Michigan. -Biology major with history and geography minor. -First teaching job was in Vassar, Michigan. -Taught there for six years. �-Next he taught in Essexville, Michigan. -Had the opportunity to help plan curriculum and buy equipment from ground up. -Remained teaching in Essexville for the remainder of his 26 year career. -Lives in a summer cabin in Interlochen while spending time in Grand Rapids in winters. (00:25:55) Reflection and Misc. -Reflection on his military service: grants a deep appreciation for those sacrificing in the military. -Two young grandchildren that are involved with the military. -A handful of the military personnel he worked with were from WWII, most were not. -When first enlistment expired October 1955 he was offered a tour in Hawaii. -Tempted but desired to go into teaching instead. -Most beneficial skills the military taught were social skills. -Highly applicable to his teaching career. � 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/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-27_UngerH1882V Title A name given to the resource Unger, Harold Richard (Interview outline and video), 2015 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2015-09-17 Description An account of the resource Dick Unger was born in Polo, Illinois in 1931. In 1951, he enlisted in the Air Force. Initially he was sent to Lackland Field in San Antonio, Texas, but the base was overcrowded, so he was sent off to Wichita Falls for basic training. Once training was complete he was assigned to Brookley Air Force base in Mobile Alabama where his clerk duties assisted the various personnel filing work. Eventually he was re-assigned in the summer of 1954 to Kelly field in Texas where he lived with his wife off base until her tragic death. Once his enlistment expired in October 1955 he graduated from CMU as a biology major and wound up teaching in Michigan. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unger, Harold Richard 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 Veterans Video recordings Korean War, 1950-1953--Personal narratives, American United States. Air Force Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Moving Image 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> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</a> Relation A related resource Veterans History Project (U.S.) Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University Libraries. Allendale, Michigan Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource video/x-m4v application/pdf https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/9b0f8441c434eff3e3c5a70986f9d147.jpg 3eb32c4cc1a39eb29a16e9a7bbc86828 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 Naval Recognition Training Slides Subject The topic of the resource Slides Military education Airplanes, Military--Recognition Warships--Recognition World War, 1939-1945 Description An account of the resource Slides developed during World War II as a training tool, for top-side battle-station personnel on board ship and for all aircraft personnel, by the US Navy. In 1942 a Recognition School was established by the Navy at Ohio State University where the method of identification was developed. In 1943 the school was taken over by the US Navy. The importance of training in visual recognition of ships and aircraft became even more evident during World War II. Mistakes resulting in costly errors and loss of life led to an increased emphasis on recognition as a vital skill. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource United States. Navy Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/477">Naval recognition slides (RHC-50)</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 2017-04-04 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 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 RHC-50 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1943-1953 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 <a href="http://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/477">Naval recognition slides, RHC-50</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 RHC-50_1258 Title A name given to the resource Unicorn British light aircraft carrier Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource United States. Navy Description An account of the resource Unicorn British CVL (light aircraft carrier), October 1, 1947. Subject The topic of the resource United States. Navy Military education Warships--Recognition World War, 1939-1945 Slides Great Britain 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 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Naval recognition slides (RHC-50) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1947-10-01 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/e903a610990f47a459105ea3e89a44cf.jpg a186e461846387af2d64295f5d69d5c3 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 Naval Recognition Training Slides Subject The topic of the resource Slides Military education Airplanes, Military--Recognition Warships--Recognition World War, 1939-1945 Description An account of the resource Slides developed during World War II as a training tool, for top-side battle-station personnel on board ship and for all aircraft personnel, by the US Navy. In 1942 a Recognition School was established by the Navy at Ohio State University where the method of identification was developed. In 1943 the school was taken over by the US Navy. The importance of training in visual recognition of ships and aircraft became even more evident during World War II. Mistakes resulting in costly errors and loss of life led to an increased emphasis on recognition as a vital skill. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource United States. Navy Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/477">Naval recognition slides (RHC-50)</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 2017-04-04 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 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 RHC-50 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1943-1953 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 <a href="http://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/477">Naval recognition slides, RHC-50</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 RHC-50_1259 Title A name given to the resource Unicorn British light aircraft carrier Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource United States. Navy Description An account of the resource Unicorn British CVL (light aircraft carrier), October 1, 1947. Subject The topic of the resource United States. 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Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/044f3a9221f549275112ee3d80134012.jpg de009981cd45e2fc6b560235849b88ff 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 Naval Recognition Training Slides Subject The topic of the resource Slides Military education Airplanes, Military--Recognition Warships--Recognition World War, 1939-1945 Description An account of the resource Slides developed during World War II as a training tool, for top-side battle-station personnel on board ship and for all aircraft personnel, by the US Navy. In 1942 a Recognition School was established by the Navy at Ohio State University where the method of identification was developed. In 1943 the school was taken over by the US Navy. The importance of training in visual recognition of ships and aircraft became even more evident during World War II. Mistakes resulting in costly errors and loss of life led to an increased emphasis on recognition as a vital skill. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource United States. Navy Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/477">Naval recognition slides (RHC-50)</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives. 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Source <a href="http://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/477">Naval recognition slides, RHC-50</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 RHC-50_1260 Title A name given to the resource Unicorn British light aircraft carrier Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource United States. Navy Description An account of the resource Unicorn British CVL (light aircraft carrier), October 1, 1947. Subject The topic of the resource United States. 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Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/d9cd27e813eecb0ad62a6b98319654d0.jpg 61a678c5b13baf7fcef1c5fe7a5a3360 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 Naval Recognition Training Slides Subject The topic of the resource Slides Military education Airplanes, Military--Recognition Warships--Recognition World War, 1939-1945 Description An account of the resource Slides developed during World War II as a training tool, for top-side battle-station personnel on board ship and for all aircraft personnel, by the US Navy. In 1942 a Recognition School was established by the Navy at Ohio State University where the method of identification was developed. In 1943 the school was taken over by the US Navy. The importance of training in visual recognition of ships and aircraft became even more evident during World War II. Mistakes resulting in costly errors and loss of life led to an increased emphasis on recognition as a vital skill. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource United States. Navy Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/477">Naval recognition slides (RHC-50)</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 2017-04-04 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 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 RHC-50 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1943-1953 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 <a href="http://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/477">Naval recognition slides, RHC-50</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 RHC-50_1877 Title A name given to the resource Unidentified (LA-7) fighter, confidential Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource United States. Navy Description An account of the resource Unidentified (LA-7) confidential Russian fighter, December 1, 1949. Subject The topic of the resource United States. Navy Military education Russia World War, 1939-1945 Airplanes, Military--Recognition 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 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Naval recognition slides (RHC-50) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1949-12-01 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives