537 24 26018 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/b6b5cfa0a298f65b88cea12a3342b1b3.mp4 636e0354541f88d595cbb07af403243e https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/25155f21770e20e3f93ec7c908f0a513.pdf 1c2e8b50cb96a54e1a778b388cf6b087 PDF Text Text Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Interview Beatrice McLogan Interviewer: James Smither Transcribed by Emilee G. Johnson, Western Michigan University Length: 20:22 Jim Smither: Hello, I’m Jim Smither, I’m the director the Veterans’ History Project, at Grand Valley State University. We’re here talking today with Mrs. Beatrice McLogan, she served in the military during the Second World War, and she going to tell us something about her experiences there. Why don’t you start by telling us a little bit about your background, where were your born what did your family do, that kind of thing. Beatrice McLogan: I was born in Ann Arbor, my father was a professor in engineering at the university. 1:00 I attended the University of Michigan and graduated from there in 1944. Jim Smither: Can I ask how old you were when you graduated? Beatrice McLogan: I was 20. Jim Smither: Ok, so how did you do it that fast? Beatrice McLogan: Oh, well, when I was in elementary school they would always pass, I guess kids would talk too much, pass them on to the next grade to get [laughs] get rid of them, so I was passed a couple of times in elementary school, so I was 16 when I graduated from high school, so that’s why I was 20 when I graduated from college. Jim Smither: Ok, and how did you meet Ted? Beatrice McLogan: At the university. One of my best friends in Ann Arbor was dating his college roommate. So that’s actually how I met him. Jim Smither: And at the point where he went off into the Army, were you engaged at that point? Beatrice McLogan: Well, not formally, but we had, maybe, a little understanding 2:00 I would say. Jim Smither: And what did you think about him going off to war in World War II? Beatrice McLogan: Oh, it was the saddest day of my life. It was very tragic to see those boys go. Jim Smither: Ok, and you were then, you stayed in school then for the next two years? �Beatrice McLogan: Yes, well, I was finishing my sophomore year when he went. Jim Smither: And, then what did you do when you graduated, then? Beatrice McLogan: Well, then, I graduated in February, in the middle of the term, because I accelerated a little bit. So, I had decisions to make about what to do, I was an English major and a history minor, as a matter of fact, I decided to join the, apply for the WAVES. That was the naval program and the acronym for Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service. Jim Smither: And why did you choose the WAVES rather than the WACs or another group? 3:00 Beatrice McLogan: Well, I think probably, the uniform had a little something to do with it. [laughs] It’s a very attractive uniform, but I just, well, I’ll tell you the real reason I selected that service, I had a friend at Michigan whose father was a senator, Senator Brown, from northern Michigan was a US Senator and I think he might have been chairman of the Armed Services Committee, he was a very important senator, only, I didn’t appreciate that at the time. The WAVES had just been formed, and Barbara Brown, my friend was considering going into the WAVES. So she asked her father to find out what he knew so he mentioned this to Captain MacAfee, who was the designated head of the organization, and she wrote this wonderful letter, hand-written, two-page letter to Barbara. And I thought, 4:00 my goodness, if they care that much about people this must be a very wonderful organization, so Barbara did not join, but I did. Jim Smither: Ok, what kind of training did they give you once you joined? Beatrice McLogan: Well I went in as an apprentice seaman at midshipman school for two months, we were apprentice seaman. Jim Smither: And where did they have school? Beatrice McLogan: That was in Northampton at Smith College. So we started the first, actually the whole period was two months, not…it was a two-month class, but one semester, the first half, we were apprentice seaman, the second half we were midshipman. We were told that the, that Annapolis set up their program, they sent their staff up to select the classes and train the staff. And we had just remarkable women that were highly trained in their fields and it was amazing to get 5:00 courses like Naval Law, and Ship’s Aircraft Ordnance, we had to learn how to identify by its silhouette, the ships, that was a tough class, because it was in [SKIP] �…active all the time, we were tired a good bit of the time. Jim Smither: Ok, and once you finished that period of training, then what did you do next? Beatrice McLogan: Then I went into communications, I went to communications school, which was held at Mount Holyoke, it had been and then it was moved back to Smith. So that everything was on the Smith campus, that was a two month course. Jim Smither: Now the women that were in there with you, were they also college graduates or? Beatrice McLogan: Yes, they were all college women. My very best friend with whom 6:00 I spent, lived in Washington after, well, she was my roommate at communications school. She had just graduated from the University of Illinois, but we had people from almost every school and many of them were just recent graduates, like I. Jim Smither: Ok, in communications school what kind of work were you doing? What were you learning to do? Beatrice McLogan: Well we were learning how to code, encode and cipher, actually, we did learn a little bit about codes, but codes were not what the Navy used, they used ciphers. Letter-for-letter substitution of messages. So we had to learn how to operate the equipment that does that sort of thing. And we were qualified to handle other varieties if they should ever arise, but they didn’t, they never did at my assignment, I was sent to Washington. 7:00 Jim Smither: And what did you do there? Beatrice McLogan: Well, I was in the code room of what was Radio Washington. We were on watches, there were four watches, to handle it cause we went 24 hours a day, and the watches would start, the first one was a day watch that would be 7:30 in the morning till 3:30 in the afternoon, or maybe it was 4 o’clock, 4:30. Then the next watch came on duty, not us, but the next one, and so forth, it went around the clock. Well, we would work two watches a day, we would work two days on one schedule, which was like 7 to 4, then we would be on 4 to 11. No, wait a minute, I’m getting a little mixed up. Yeah, then 4 to 11, then 11 to 7. So, we would do two days of each. 8:00 So after the sixth day, we would have one day off. And then we would start again on mornings. So we were always, our biological clocks were always being very disturbed, because… Jim Smither: It’s mixed up. Beatrice McLogan: Right. Jim Smither: So what happens in the code room or whatever, when you’re on a watch, what’s going on or? �Beatrice McLogan: Well, the messages came in on a teletype machine. And went, then we got the message which would be just, a series of six letters, five letters, no, yeah, five letters, and then a space and five letters and then we would sit at a typewriter and type the—we can talk about it now because it’s public knowledge about the enigma machine now, you know, that was what we were using—so we would set the wheels for the day, every day the wheels would have a different set, 9:00 and then we would set the wheels and type five letters and it would come out in English. My, now we were just, we were naval communications, I lived in a group house with five other WAVES and three of them were in the Japanese code, but we never knew what they were doing and they never knew what we were doing, because we were very discreet. Jim Smither: How much sense did the messages you were getting make, I mean, when you were decoding did you understand what they were doing and…? Beatrice McLogan: Oh, well, actually there might be voice codes, or, not voice codes, word codes within a cypher. For instance we all chuckled one time, we got a, the Office of Research and Development, dispatches went through out office. And that was the Manhattan Project, the you know, kind of super-secret messages. They were always things no one could possibly understand. 10:00 And one time there was one from London that said, “Eric is home sick.” Well, obviously that meant something, but we, worried about poor Eric off in London. [laughs] We handled the dispatches for the White House, President Roosevelt was a Navy person so he like the Navy to handle his communications. Winston Churchill and Joe Stalin, course we never personally saw the messages, only the watch officer was authorized to decipher, encipher the White House dispatches. But we delivered them, picked them up and delivered them to the White House when they were typed out. Jim Smither: Did you meet any interesting people when you were on that duty? Or ones that were famous? Beatrice McLogan: Oh, yeah. One of my good friends in the office was 11:00 Deborah Kirk, whose father, Alan Kirk, was commodore of the landings at Salerno and D-Day, and he came home quite a conquering hero. But his parents were very close friends of the Achesons’, and I know one Christmas Eve, Debbie was very down, she said to me, “Would you go with me to the Achesons’ Christmas party?” Because we could go on our lunch hour. Because we were on an afternoon shift and she was sort of blue because she couldn’t attend this nice party, so we got a cab and we went to Dean Acheson’s house, that was pretty exciting. And I met Justice Frankfurter, and I didn’t know that they were called Mr. Justice Frankfurter, let’s see how were they called, Mr. Justice Frankfurter, I guess, is the way he was introduced. 12:00 We saw Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., was assigned to the Commander in Chief’s office, so when we got word of that, we were off �and just wandering down the hall to look in and see him. Robert Young, who you probably, do you remember him? Jim Smither: He played Marcus Welby many years later. Beatrice McLogan: Oh, yeah. Well he was in the, I’m trying to think what it was, well actually he’d been on sea duty but he came back to the Navy Department and he was below us, a floor below us, and we’d see him once in a while. And then Admiral Halsey, once the war was over, was assigned an office right across the hall from the code room! And I’ll never forget him, he’d just sit there and watch the girls and he had these big glasses, [laughs] watch us going in and out, and I’m sure he’d never seen a WAVE 13:00 up close before. Well, I guess I can’t, what else can I think of that would be of interest. It was very exciting when the war was over, we were all very thrilled, and I remember probably everybody had a little too much to drink that night, we had, we were on the night watch and I remember a commander saying, “Ok, I guess it’s bout time for us to settle down and get to work!” [laughs] Jim Smither: Do you remember getting the news about the first atomic bomb? Beatrice McLogan: Let’s see. Jim Smither: Cause that’d be a little bit before… Beatrice McLogan: I have a feeling that I was on leave. I think maybe we were on leave at that time when the atomic bomb was dropped. No, no, we were in Washington, Ted had been transferred to Washington 14:00 at that time. And yes, we did k now and it was a huge relief. Absolutely, because everybody knew that everybody who could walk or crawl was going to be involved in the invasion of Japan, and after all we’d been through, it was a pretty nice thing to know the war was over at last. Jim Smither: What was life in Washington like while the war was still going on? What sort of place was it to be if you were a young woman working in the WAVES? Beatrice McLogan: Well, the Navy assumed that if you were an officer, you could take care of yourself, and there were no services as far as housing or you know, a rental organization or anything. So my friend and I who had gone through communications school together, we agreed we would live together in Washington. So, we got the paper out every night and we read the want-ads and course they were always fruitless, the few things that were published. 15:00 And we finally found, well, my sister was living in Washington, and she found a place for us to stay for a short time. It was available for maybe two weeks. And my friend, Elgie said we moved eight times, but I don’t think it was that much! I had a very good friend in Ann Arbor whose father had transferred, or given a position in �Washington on the War Labor Board, and they had a beautiful apartment. And I think Mrs. Skinner was feeling terribly sorry for us and she said, “Would you do me the favor of staying at my apartment so you could water my plants,” while they were going away for two weeks and oh my, that was heaven. [laughs] But finally, it just turned out on our watch that one of our, one of the gals who was working on our watch, was looking for a roommate. 16:00 We said, well, two, take two, you can have us. Jim Smither: Very good. Beatrice McLogan: So that’s the way we moved out to Bethesda. But everybody had a terrible time finding houses. There were people, interestingly, a lot of military wives, whose husbands were overseas, would sometimes find someone to live, rent their house out, so they knew how desperate the situation was. And one of my friends in Ann Arbor who went to Washington moved into a house where the owner actually just took a bedroom, an old bedroom, and the girls had complete run of the house. And when they were there, she went up to her bedroom, so she never intruded on their feeling of togetherness. So housing was a terrible problem in Washington. 17:00 When Ted and I were married, we were very lucky to find an apartment, one of Ted’s colleagues, people were going out on points at that, after the war was over, they went on points, and one of his colleagues points were upped and so he had an available apartment. I don’t think he told many people, I mean, he just told Ted it was available, and he said, “We’ll take it!” [laughs] Jim Smither: So what did you do before he got that apartment, did he still have a place somewhere else or? Beatrice McLogan: No we had it after our wedding, we went with, he stayed with friends of my parents in Arlington and I lived in Bethesda, so it was quite a distance, and he had to save his gas. Gas was rationed in those days. So he would get out to Bethesda and then we were able to move into this apartment right after our honeymoon. 18:00 So that was very, very nice. Jim Smither: Are there other things, either your experiences or for that matter, you husband’s that you’d like to have on record or think that we should know about here? Beatrice McLogan: Well I just didn’t know if you knew that he’d been invested in the hall of fame, Ranger Hall of Fame, he had ranger training, as he told you, in Hawaii and, he was invested, oh, I’d say, seven or eight years ago. Jim Smither: Ok. Well, that’s good to have on the record. Beatrice McLogan: Yes. �Jim Smither: Overall, how do you think your time or experience in the military affected you, do you think it changes the way you do things or did it expose you to things you wouldn’t have seen otherwise? Beatrice McLogan: Well, I was maybe a little more sophisticated than some of the girls that went into service because first of all, I knew Washington. My parents’ good friends at Arlington 19:00 with whom we stayed, and I had a sister who was living there who worked at the Library of Congress, so I had been to Washington several times and I knew the town, I felt very comfortable there, like it very much, it was fascinating to be able to go—one thing Ted didn’t mention was after the Marauder Operation, there was such an uproar about the way the soldiers had supposedly been mishandled, or mistreated, that there was a Congressional investigation and they were given the order that the Marauders could never go into active duty again unless they so selected. And those hearings were held in Washington, obviously, the Congressional hearings. So, when I had time off or I would just work it out, there were days that I was working 20:00 afternoons or whatever, I could go listen to those hearings and the Pearl Harbor investigation, and hearings and that made Washington a very exciting place to be. Jim Smither: All right, well, thank you very much for taking the time to talk to us. Beatrice McLogan: You’re very welcome. Jim Smither: It’s been a pleasure. Thank you. 20:22 � 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. 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Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/d67f5010c1243fd8ae3a272af55c4295.mp4 2afe67be8baf0c69a2d263bb2e3881f8 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/0a6caf2320adb2c21c3461c76b831c1d.pdf 5c9a7d919471949780736b47dc61dd03 PDF Text Text Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Edward McLogan (01:04:34) Early Life, Family, And Education. 01:19:24 born in Flint MI; he went to high school in Flint, graduated from the University of Michigan in 1942; he was in the ROTC program in college, and he went “immediately into service as a second lieutenant infantry” 01:49:23his father was in the retail china and glass business; he was also mayor of Flint, though it was a "weak" mayor because it wasn't a full-time position 02:05:28he has two brothers; he and his wife [Beatrice] have six daughters, one son, twenty-one grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren 02:30:25he studied economics and political science, those were his majors, at the U of M Military Experience Before The War 02:45:11ROTC started in the freshman year [college], 1938 for McLogan, before hostilities broke out in Europe; they met twice of week for an hour or two, and it was mostly about the history of war, and much less about weapons 03:26:03his father was a "great flag waver," and encouraged him toward the ROTC and military service 03:48:28he remembers Pearl Harbor day "vividly"; in the fraternity house, most of them did not know for sure where Pearl Harbor was; they all picked up broom handles and marched around the room, not realizing how serious it [the attack on Pearl Harbor] was 05:02:15he does not believe that there were any changes in the ROTC program after the attack on Pearl Harbor, but they were already wearing uniforms and they knew that they would be participating "directly and very soon" 05:21:16he knew he would be in infantry because those in "engine" school had a choice between signal corp., ordnance, or engineering, while but those in "lit school" had to go in infantry Mr. McLogan's Formal Entry Into The Military 05:52:16he went into the military in the summer of 1942, to an infantry replacement training camp in Georgia 06:27:18one weekend, all the lieutenants went to Europe, the next week's lieutenants went to the Pacific; his college roommate arrived in camp the week before him and was sent to Europe; McLogan himself went to the Pacific, he was in camp in Georgia until almost Christmas time 07:09:03as far as training, there was "too much marching around," training with mortars, pistols, rifles, some marksmanship 07:28:03in his junior year in college, he went to Camp Custer in Battle Creek with the ROTC, and he had "fine" training there �08:46:10he shipped out from San Francisco, CA passed under the Golden Gate bridge, and arrived at Pearl Harbor a week later � infantry training and Ranger training began; it was "pronounced and rigorous training of a physical nature," and firing guns was part of the program; this lasted about a month In The Pacific 09:41:21from Hawaii, they sailed to New Hebrides, on the way to the staging area in New Caledonia; from there, the next destination was either the Solomon Islands or New Guinea; he was assigned to the unit that had relieved the Marines on Guadalcanal in January 10:25:21almost 100% of the combat on Guadalcanal had ceased at that point, and he went into training “under McArthur's edict of island hopping”; they knew they would be "making a beachhead" in the Solomon Islands but not exactly where 10:47:13in August, they left on the ship; he was on a destroyer one night with a battalion of men, and they went north in the dark at around 10 p.m.; they stopped at about 3 a.m., about a half mile from shore 11:41:23the battalion commander, Colonel Larson, decided, after talking with McLogan's company commander, that McLogan would take the lead going onto the beachhead; the coast watcher there had designated an area where it was believed they would be unopposed 12:47:10 they “off loaded” at 5 a.m. and went toward shore in a PT boat, which hit coral a hundred yards from shore--the men jumped into the water holding their rifles up; the colonel told him that the coast watcher would hold up one lantern if they were unopposed, and two if their was opposition; they got halfway to shore, and he saw the coast watcher holding up one lantern--they landed on Vella Lavella, “halfway up the chain” of islands [in the New Georgia group of the Solomons] 14:10:10Japanese Zeros were flying over, and there were many dead Japanese soldiers in the water; he believes that those soldiers had been machine gunned from the air, because there were no American soldiers on the island 14:56:14on shore, they dug their foxholes, they were told what position they were supposed to be in, maps were brought out, they were told where the enemy was supposed to be 15:12:06three or four days later, he got an order from headquarters telling him to have his men assemble for an important announcement; a major came along and told them that volunteers were needed for a dangerous assignment and they would have one minute to think about it � if they wanted to volunteer, they were supposed to take one step forward, but there was to be no pressure � he was in a regular army unit then, and the regular army units "never volunteered for anything" � a voice behind him told him that there was his chance—it was Sergeant Michael, and McLogan responded that he would if the sergeant would, knowing that the sergeant would not—it was a "challenge"—but the sergeant said "you're on" and there were two or three more from the approximately forty men in the group �out of 4,500 men in the regiment on the island, there were thirty-two volunteers 17:07:24four or five days afterward, another destroyer took them to New Caledonia; they didn't have much training there, they waited to be transported to Europe; there were three battalions of 900 men each, waiting, and even his battalion commander didn't know what would happen next 17:54:00his colonel put him in charge of the officers’ luggage that would be on the ship that was to take them back to the United States; he went into the town, Noumèa, found a barge, took it to the ship, and the men on the ship yelled that they had come from San Francisco, so McLogan was the first person who knew they would not be trained in or assigned to Europe 18:42:10a day later, they all left on the ship; they stopped in Brisbane, Australia, where they picked up the New Guinea guys � they traveled south, "under" Australia, to Perth; they could then leave the ship, but they had to walk in formation through Fremantle, where barmaids and waiters in restaurants and pubs came running out bringing them steins of beer, and people on the sidewalk applauded them � the next day they left, and it was three days later, when they were in the Indian Ocean, before they got the orders: the destination was Calcutta � India 19:50:26ten days later, two days away from port in Calcutta, it was discovered that the draft of their ship was too deep for the port there; they turned south and landed at Bombay after spending 29 days and nights on the ship 20:33:25they went on trains 100 miles north to a British camp run by General Orde Wingate, who was a "toughy" despite being 5'5" tall; they worked with Wingate for one month 21:04:28they traveled by train again, to central India where they built their own camp; they had two months of training there, beginning at the end of October 21:57:07on January 3, Brigadier General Frank Merrill arrived; he was a big guy, smart, had attended both West Point and MIT, was fluent in Japanese and knew "a bit of Chinese as well" � after a week Merrill contacted Lieutenant General Joseph Stillwell, the commander of the Pacific theater; the War department code word for the men was "Galahad Force" � Stillwell sent McLogan's battalion, by trains, to the Assam province in northeastern India, bordering Burma [Myanmar] 23:17:16McLogan was in the green combat team (each of the three battalions had a combat team), the only one with combat experience, in the Solomons and New Guinea, while the other two were from the States or the Caribbean 23:53:27Merrill decided to split up the battalions, and McLogan transferred from his battalion to the Caribbean battalion, and there were two combat teams in each battalion; once behind the lines they operated together in a sense, with "no more than a day's march" between trails; his [the one he transferred into] was the second battalion; the first battalion was the one from the States 24:51:23they didn't know exactly what Stillwell wanted them to do, but knew they �would be going behind the lines in Burma; they had seen a British map with Burma on it, but it was a thirty-year-old map, though the city of Myitkyinā, on the Irrawaddy River near the China border, was probably on it; they did not know at the time that that was their objective � they went behind the lines at the end of January and were there until the first week in June Burma [Myanmar] 25:49:00they marched and battled their way across Burma, 700 miles, each soldier carrying sixty to seventy pounds of equipment on his back 26:17:26there was just one road through northern Burma, a dirt road that the Japanese had built for supplying their own troops; McLogan never saw any buildings, only bamboo and grass shacks; it was 125 days of sleeping on the ground, digging foxholes, and some "bad" battles; they picked their way until they found "no opposition" then went around them [the Japanese] 27:31:21the terrain was hilly, forested, and they didn't get much sunlight because of the height of the trees; when they marched at night it was pitch dark and they had to hang on to the backpacks of the guys in front of them, or the horses' tails [horses and mules carried supplies] 28:22:02they would be up at the crack of dawn, breakfast was K- rations, the same for the entire 125 days; they tried to have an air drop every five days, because fivedays worth was the limit of the food and ammunition they could carry—they had radio contact with the base for supplies; the Japanese interfered with some of their supply drops from parachutes 30:10:03their initial mission was to take the village of [he didn't remember the name] 55 miles away, and it took them five days to get there; it was a tough battle that lasted three days; with the three battalions acting together; the Americans prevailed � two or three weeks later, the second main battle happened; it had taken two or three weeks of marching to get to it 31:54:19their objective was “five miles south of the village where the Japanese troops were”; they were supposed to block the road below the village � their destination was a few hundred yards from the road; late in the afternoon they crossed the river, "a big river," and dug themselves in; late that night they heard Japanese trucks coming up from the south and heard tailgates slamming; in the morning, the Japanese attacked the Americans 33:39:08at 10 a.m. that morning, McLogan was summoned by Lieutenant Colonel George McGee; McLogan was told to take his platoon of thirty men [it had been thirty-nine] go to the road, through Lieutenant Whitten's area, because Whitten was not under attack; McLogan was told to get two light machine guns from the heavy weapons depot; after that, "we'll come and try to rescue you" 36:03:29they got the guns moved over to Whitten’s platoon; they went "maybe a hundred yards," suddenly there was a Japanese patrol, and the Americans and Japanese were shooting at each other; three Americans were wounded and perhaps two killed; McGee, on the radio, told them they had to get to the road 38:57:06McLogan's men outnumbered the Japanese—there were about ten Japanese—and they scattered; ten minutes later, they ran into another Japanese �patrol—McLogan told McGee on the radio that two more Americans were wounded including one of the machine gunners, but they would still try to get to the road 39:55:05McGee came back on the radio and told them that American planes flying over the road strafing had informed him that the area was "crawling" with Japanese; McLogan was ordered to bring his men back in, but there was a lot of fighting throughout the day 40:19:20late in the day, they were ordered to go back across the river; the men were tired, had not slept "in several nights," and were out of food, but were still fairly healthy; it had been raining all day and it was muddy � they walked until midnight, then were ordered off the trail to rest, and they slept for two hours; they hit the trail again at daybreak, and in one or two days were back at the foot of the hill where they had started; they met up with one of the other battalions, went halfway up the hill and dug in 42:15:06the next morning, moving back onto the trail, they came under Japanese artillery fire that was "accurate from the first round"; both men and animals fell, and there were many wounded � they were at the top of a ridge, and the only way to go was straight forward; they marched, reaching Nhpum Ga at 10 a.m.; Merrill was there and told them they had "to hold this place"; he then moved his headquarters five miles away 43:23:20at 4 p.m. the Japanese infantry attacked, beginning ten days of fighting; they tried to send two patrols a day to each of the other two battalions, but on the third day, some Marauders were killed, and they gave up the patrol idea; Merrill himself had a heart attack and was evacuated 44:01:17they lost their water hole in the village to the Japanese; they then had no water except what drained into a “swampy area” in a defilade and there were a dozen dead horses and mules lying in "that stuff"; each man was limited to half a canteen of water a day 44:48:03the Japanese seemed "a nocturnal type," and the Americans would hear them laughing, talking and chopping down trees, and they would yell insults to the Americans 45:15:07they had translators: thirteen Japanese Americans from California � the one McLogan knew best, his family had returned to Japan before the Pearl Harbor attack � "Roy's younger brother" wound up in the Japanese Army and his parents went to Nagasaki [the older son, Roy Matsumoto, served in the US Army with McLogan] � McLogan's platoon held the top of a hill containing a trail, and it vital to hold that trail; McGee, on the radio, told him to send Matsumoto, who took off his pack and crawled down the hill to enemy lines; twenty minutes later, he reported back to McLogan that his platoon would be hit "full strength" the next morning 47:52:19McGee told McLogan to vacate his foxholes, booby trap them, and move a hundred feet up the hill, giving them a longer firing field 48:37:17the next morning, the Japanese came up the hill and McLogan gave the order to shoot; there were about seventy-five Japanese and lots of them were shot; the �surviving Japanese retreated back down the hill, trying to drag some of their wounded with them 49:10:13in another ten minutes, the Japanese charged again, trying to take the hill, about fifty of them--the Americans counted fifty-four bodies 49:48:03the next day was Easter Sunday; McGee sent out patrols to look for the Japanese, but they found none, and the Americans moved back five miles, to Merrill's camp 50:16:09seven hundred men were now left out of the nine hundred originally in McLogan's battalion, 352 had been wounded and 54 killed 51:36:15they heard a rumor that they would be sent to Myitkyinā; a few days later they were given new maps, then the orders came threw for them to move to Myitkyinā, a hundred miles away, with a 6,000-foot mountain range to cross, and the monsoon was starting besides; it took them twenty-seven days to get there, the trail hadn't been used in ten years and "it got muddy right away from the animals" � the objective was to take the airstrip, a big one, two or three miles from the city; they completely surprised the Japanese; one of the other battalions captured the field � Chinese troops followed them in and made two aborted attempts to capture the city, and even fought each other at one time 54:22:19around June 1 or 2, McGee told McLogan he had lost contact with the Japanese, so he sent him out with his platoon, number ten, to find them � it was a "scrubby, hilly area," and the platoon separated at a "huge bush," with eight men going around to the right, and McLogan and Sergeant Michael going to the left; McLogan saw a Japanese soldier kneeling in his foxhole holding his rifle--he shot Michael in the forehead The Adventure In Burma Ends 56:11:13Stillwell wrote in his diary that "Galahad is just shot"; the next day they were flown out, and everyone went to a hospital; McLogan himself had been wounded at Nhpum Ga, and the wound, though not serious, had not healed 57:16:17part of his men went back in and captured Myitkyinā, but "didn't take it until August" while McLogan was in the hospital 57:46:24McLogan was in the hospital for two months, then he went on leave, to Darjeeling, in northern India 59:03:27after a week, maybe ten days in a “beautiful hotel in Darjeeling, McLogan received shipping orders to go home; he was the "train commander" of the troops returning home; the train took seven days and nights to get to a certain town [McLogan did not remember the name] in Pakistan, where they were put on planes to go home Back In The States 1:00:21:15he was not immediately discharged from the military when he got home— he went to a camp in Florida 1:00:42:28he was reassigned to Fort Benning, and was assigned to do map reading there; he was ordered to the commandant's office—the general's aide de camp was ill, to be sent back to the states; they were selecting aides for him, he had a junior and a �senior aide; McLogan was selected � he saw "all of these famous names," the president of the Phillipines, for example, and was "always in the front seat with the driver" when the "big generals" came through Fort Benning Marauders Rewarded 1:02:24:09bronze stars were given to the Marauders, "to everybody who went through the whole bit," with few exceptions; there were no silver stars or congressional medals, other than the Purple Heart; "we were not mistreated"; colonels and the column commanders got silver stars Beatrice McLogan 1:04:00:15McLogan and his wife had known each other at the U of M; she joined the WAVES [during WWII], a “very fine” and “she enjoyed every minute of that” Washington DC 1:04:34:11after the end of war: at Fort Benning: his colonel was replaced and sent to the Pentagon, where he would not need an aid, but he got McLogan a "decent assignment" working with the ASTP [Army Specialized Training Program] � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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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 McLoganE Title A name given to the resource McLogan, Edward (Interview outline and video), 2007 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource McLogan, Edward Description An account of the resource Edward McLogan entered the ROTC at the University of Michigan in 1938, and joined the US Army in 1942. He served as an officer with an army unit in the Solomons, participating in a landing on Vella Lavella, and subsequently volunteered to join a specialized unit that turned out to be Merrill's Marauders. He served as an officer on the unit's mission behind Japanese lines in Burma, and despite being wounded remained with it until the end of its mission. He served for the rest of the war at Fort Benning and in Washington. 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Special Collections and University Archives Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Language A language of the resource eng 1979s https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/ee3a9d0ccf8bdec2d9fc240c09ec4b46.mp4 4e21b291227b7090977b0077f2bff5df https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/a0b4d2016fb07e17eb8dd68e89265cde.pdf ae0f297e8ca247e6fd960d0e4ba99670 PDF Text Text Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Interview Notes Length: 23:40 Peter McMillan WWII Veteran United States Air Force; December 1945 to 1947? * Important note: McMillan often refers to WWII as WWI, however, based on content and his birth date, he means WWII. (0:38) Pre-enlistment/Enlistment • High school student; inducted 9 days before graduation • Air Force gave him 6 months to “tie up loose ends” so was able to graduate • Finished basic training when the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki • Shipped over to Guam but cadet school closed; became clerk (3:30) Pearl Harbor Day • 9th grade • When heard news, knew he had to start planning so that he could finish high school and then enlist in the war. (4:30) Story about Japanese and Marines in Guam • When in Guam (while considered a “rookie”), McMillan saw a group of Marines go into the jungle to find Japanese soldiers. He thought the Marines were just joking but then he heard gun shots. The Marines came back saying they had killed two Japanese. • Many Japanese on Guam didn’t realize war was over o Stayed in caves • The Japanese on the island had a habit of “sneaking up” on American soldiers who were taking showers and killing them. (American soldiers in these situations were easy targets because the showers were outside in a relatively private area near the jungles). (6:10) Baseball • Played baseball all the time. (6:40) Most memorable experience in Guam • 7 days after arriving in Guam, went to midnight mass for Christmas (which was held outside). During the mass, he heard a shot fired, which had killed a lieutenant. A few Marines went out to investigate. Soon, the Marines returned having killed the Japanese soldiers who killed the lieutenant. �(7:51) Casualties • Continued even after WWII was over because Japanese on island didn’t believe war was over. • In the barracks, cots were organized in rows. Often McMillan would wake up and find the men who slept on the ends of the rows stabbed to death. (9:30) Leisure and home correspondence • Baseball, cards, movies, instruments, singing • Discussion of the USO – United Service Organization (12:32) Short discussion on holidays (13:17) Skills/lessons learned (13:57) Last day in the service • Came into Detroit Central Station and then took a cab home. Wanted to surprise mom so he had the cab driver stop a few houses away. But his mom had an “eagle eye” and saw the cab stop. She ran out to greet him and instead, surprised him! (14:55) Family’s ties to the service • Dad and his dad’s brothers served in WWI • McMillan and 2 of his brothers served in WWII; youngest brother served in Korea (15:51) Life after the war • GI Bill and college • Marriage about a year and half after home from war • Friendships made in war were not kept up after war; each went his own way. • Became teacher and a coach (21:23) Interesting question and response to: “How did you feel when other Americans began protesting the wars following WWII?” • Discusses briefly why went to war • Called “the greatest generation” in that they were patriotic and did what called to do • Protests of the 1960s required a lot of adapting for his generation o Realized WWII generation was often “blindly patriotic” o Had great effect on his generation because people realized that they had been following blindly and perhaps should challenge the government. (22:54) Slideshow of 7 pictures from his time in service � 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 McMillanP Title A name given to the resource McMillan, Peter (Interview outline and video), 2006 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource McMillan, Peter Description An account of the resource Peter McMillan is a WW II veteran who served in the United States Air Force from approximately 1945 to 1947? in Guam with a six-week stint in Hawaii. Although a majority of his time in the service occurred after WWII had ended, McMillan's story still provides a unique perspective on post-WW II conflict in the Pacific Theater. This account details how tension and confusion continued well into the post-WWII years. He talks briefly about the role of the United Service Organization and his correspondence home. Finally, McMillan discusses life after war - the role of the G.I. Bill and his generation's commitment to WW II - and what impact the anti-war protests of the 1960s had on his generation. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource McMillan, Kelsey (Interviewer) Forest Hills Eastern High School (Ada, Mich.) Subject The topic of the resource Oral history Veterans History Project (U.S.) Video recordings United States--History, Military Michigan--History, Military World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American United States. 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Special Collections and University Archives Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Language A language of the resource eng https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/29fc6655d4b24d1a4cf0bba5a6d10d98.mp4 250198c72d3a3a879bad40b34aae813c https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/47a1a5466698b40184d2e73934f3ad3a.pdf a6f84553c303badf7b2b6f2500150c9d PDF Text Text Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Martin McNamara (1:25:53) Background Information (00:11)        Born in 1916 in Michigan. (00:16) His mother and father both emigrated from Canada. In Michigan they ran a farm. (00:32) Martin attended school through the 6th grade. When he was 10 he quit school there due to the death of both his parents. (1:31) He had 9 brothers and sisters. After his parents’ death, Marin lived iwith one of his older sisters. (2:18) Martin completed high school and moved to the Lower Peninsula to work at an auto dealership in 1937. (2:30) He joined the National Guard in 1938 with several of his close friends. (2:53) In 1939 [1940?] his unit was activated and Martin was then in the U.S. Army. (3:26) Service in the National Guard (4:15)     He served in the 119th Field Artillery. (4:16) Every summer the men went on Maneuvers. Every Thursday night the men met for training. (4:36) He was made sergeant in the motor section. (5:58) After being mobilized, the unit was sent to Fort Knox, Kentucky for basic training. (6:16) Basic Training (6:20)            His work was assigned in the motor pool. (6:40) The trucks that Martin used were not very reliable. (7:18) The men were assigned to go to Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, but due to construction the men were sent to Fort Knox. (7:46) The men were at fort Knox for approx. 3 months before being moved to Fort Leonard Wood. (8:28) At Fort Leonard Wood, the areas used for training were former residences. Because the people were forced out, often live stock was left behind to turn wild. (9:30) There were a number of units at Fort Leonard Wood aside from Martin’s. (10:15) The men were given liberty to go into town quite often. (11:05) When off base there were caves that Martin explored and bars. (11:37) Martin was about 5-10 years older than the average recruit. (14:00) Martin was eventually transferred out f the 119th Field Artillery to the 260th Coast Artillery. (14:52) He was sent to Washington State in 1942 to be shipped off to Alaska. (16:16) Travel to Washington and Alaska (17:40)  The men were not given a furlough before being sent to Washington. (17:45) �            While in the 260th Coast Artillery, the unit was given larger 6 inch guns than the men had in the 119th Field Artillery. (18:35) The men were given Caterpillar tractors. Martin was given the responsibility of knowing how to repair these tractors. (19:30) The men were shipped to Washington by train. (20:37) The guns were loaded on to flatbeds to be shipped. Martin very clearly remembers seeing the mountains while traveling to Washington. (21:30) The trip to Washington took several weeks. (22:25) The men stayed in Washington as a stopover to load up on ships before being sent to Alaska. (24:07) Martin was sent to Alaska in an old German troop transport that the U.S. acquired after World War I. (24:26) There were sightings of submarines that resulted in the ship needing to stop in various ports during the voyage. (25:40) There were multiple ships traveling with Martin’s but not very close together. (26:25) Ship stayed in a cove for 1 week while waiting for submarines to pass. During this week, the men played many cards and listened to music. (27:17) The ship landed in Kodiak Bay in Alaska in early summer 1942. (28:08) After landing, the men traveled up the coast to a field where they sent up camp. The purpose of Martin being in Alaska was to protect the Coast. (28:48) Service in Alaska (28:49)             Martin was given the task of getting the heavy guns the men had up to the top of the mountain. To do this, the men had to make a road up the mountain. (30:14) Martin does not recall if the men had engineers with them to assist them with moving and setting up position for the guns. The men did not have heavy equipment such as bulldozers to aid them with the task. (31:41) The guns were set up after approx. 1 month. (33:14) The weather was very wet and muddy while the men set up the guns. It rained almost every day. There wasn’t any snow. (34:26) The weather was still quite warm. (35:39) Martin was still in Kodiak after winter began. The temperature was not overly severe. (37:15) The men did build barracks for the winter that the men stayed in instead of tents. (38:10) Martin did not have any encounters with the Japanese. Other islands did though. (38:46) After Kodiak Martin was sent to Amchitka. This island is near the end of the Aleutian Islands. (39:15) Martin was able to see Japanese planes land on an airstrip on Kiska. (40:40) The Japanese often put dummy planes on their airstrip to trick bombers into continuously attacking targets that were not real. (42:00) When moving to Amchitka the men had to rebuild the equipment on the new island. (43:11) Life in Alaska (43:42)    There was a lot of snow. The men often played cards for entertainment. (43:50) In Amchitka, men often had to dig themselves out of snow banks. (44:12) Special work had to be done on the trucks to stop their engines from freezing. (44:50) �           The Caterpillar tractors could be used in the snow when trucks could not. (45:21) Men often used skis or snowshoes for transportation during periods of high snow. (46:30) The men did not experience too many problems with low morale. (47:22) Martin never felt like he was in any danger while in the position he was in. (49:30) Radios and a paper printed in Kodiak were used to inform the men on the state of the war. (50:00) There were still native civilians in Kodiak while Martin was stationed there. (50:29) There were no civilians on Amchitka. (50:57) There was an abundance of wildlife including bear and sea otter. (51:48) The men Martin served with were mostly from around the country. A good number, however, were from Michigan. (53:55) The food supply was very nice. The men were given beer on occasion. (55:40) Martin was not given any furloughs during the 3 years he served in Alaska. (56:30) Leaving Alaska (57:16)      Martin left the Aleutian Islands with part of his unit to Washington. He was then sent from Washington to Texas. (57:44) Martin was sent to Texas in mid 1944 and was given training in night fighting and maneuvers. (1:00:31) Martin and his unit were also given engineering training and were made to build pontoon bridges. (1:01:12) While nearing the end of the war, there was a great push for paratroopers for the invasion of Japan. Martin was recruited and switched from engineer training to paratroop training. (1:03:40) Martin decided to join the paratroopers because he wanted to invade Japan and see some action. (1:04:38) Paratrooper Training (1:04:50)        Martin was 5-10 years older than the average paratrooper recruit. He had no problem with the training. (1:05:10) The men did jump off towers for their first 5 jumps. (1:05:40) The first time Martin jumped from a plane the experience was surprisingly casual. (1:07:17) Many men were afraid to jump from the plane. There were, however, very few accidents. (1:08:33) The men were not given any information on the Japanese invasion. (1:09:06) The men had to jump with dummy weights that were intended to train the men for being dropped with their supplies. (1:11:51) The paratroop training was finished before the war ended. Martin's training was 2 weeks longer than normal due to an additional demolitions course. (1:14:11) Discharge (1:15:25)    When the men on Martin’s base learned of the end of the war, the men celebrated. (1:15:30) With 88 points, Martin was discharged 2 weeks after the war ended in August of 1945. (1:16:00) Martin returned to work at a car dealership shortly after returning home to Michigan. (1:16:43) � Martin was married in approx. 1946/1947. (1:17:33) Thoughts on Service (1:20:31)   Over all, Martin enjoyed his time in the service. (1:21:02) Martin, an Eagle Scout, was made a scout master of a Boy Scout Troop. He thought his time in the service helped him serve in this position. (1:22:14) � 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 McNamaraM1143V Title A name given to the resource McNamara, Martin (Interview outline and video), 2008 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource McNamara, Martin Description An account of the resource Martin McNamara, born in 1916 in Michigan, joined the National Guard in 1938, serving with the 119th Field Artillery. His unit was mobilized over a year before Pearl Harbor, and sent to train at Fort Knox and Fort Leonard Wood. In 1942, he was reassigned to the 260th Coastal Artillery and sent to Alaska. He served as a driver for trucks and caterpillar tractors, and helped build bases on Kodiak and Amchitka Islands in the Aleutians. He was sent to Texas in 1944 and trained as a combat engineer and as a paratrooper in preparation for the invasion of Japan, but the war ended before he could be sent overseas, and he was discharged shortly afterward. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smither, James (Interviewer) Kentwood Historic Preservation Commission (Kentwood, Mich.) WKTV WKTV (Wyoming, Mich.) Subject The topic of the resource Oral history Veterans History Project (U.S.) United States--History, Military Michigan--History, Military Veterans Video recordings United States. 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Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/160b88c9bea0a0638cb44278f7254f89.m4v 74133f5cacaaaa221b2ceb26331e0b53 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/6b2cada618dd641b498ac318b21b3729.pdf 82e4b5bd736a0730956f0951ecdfdb0d PDF Text Text Grand Valley State University Veterans’ History Project Douglas McVay Vietnam War 1 hour 9 seconds (00:00:11) Early Life -Born in Monticello, Iowa, on December 18, 1949 -Near the Mississippi River -Moved to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, after grade school -Father worked as a farmer, so Douglas spent his early life on a farm -Got a factory job in Cedar Rapids, then got involved with the Teamsters -Mother got a job with Rockwell International -Graduated from high school in 1968 -Read about the Vietnam War and heard about it in the news -Knew the war existed, but he ignored it -Went to Kirkwood Community College -Stayed for one year then for summer classes (00:01:53) Enlisting in the Army -Dropped out of college because he was bored and decided to enlist in the Army -Didn’t put a lot of thought into it -Enlisted in August 1969 -Sent to Fort Dodge in Des Moines for his enlistment physical -Mix of draftees and enlistees -Didn’t see anyone trying to get out of service (00:03:17) Basic Training -Sent to Fort Polk, Louisiana, for basic training -Flew down to the base in a military transport -Remembers it was a loud and rough ride -When he arrived, he was issued a uniform and a place to sleep -First week was spent doing processing -Waking up at 4:30 a.m. came as a shock -Wanted to go to Pharmacy School, but he didn’t get that assignment -Did marching in the morning and class in the afternoon -Got up at 4:30 a.m., had breakfast, then did physical training -Learned about weapons -Drill sergeants had a lot of control over his life -Part of breaking individuality -They kept the recruits tired to break any rebellious behavior -Strong emphasis on discipline and unit cohesion -Punished with cleaning barracks, cleaning toilets, and marching around the dumpster -Done for accidents or infractions �-Found the Army to be unusual at first, but then he adjusted to it -Once he got over his homesickness he quickly adjusted -Basic training lasted eight weeks (00:07:20) Advanced Infantry Training -Stayed at Fort Polk for his Advanced Infantry Training (AIT) -Lasted another eight weeks -Issued an M16 rifle -Trained with grenades and other infantry weapons -Went on bivouacs and long marches -A lot of the drill sergeants had been to Vietnam -All preparation for fighting in Vietnam -Told to stay alert or, “Charlie could ruin your day” -Trained with white, black, and Hispanic recruits from all over the United States -18 – 21 years old, but had a handful of recruits in their mid to late twenties (00:09:37) Leadership School -Received orders to go to Leadership School -Spent two or three weeks training at Fort Knox, Kentucky -Learned how to drive armored personnel carriers (APCs) -Interesting experience -Got to drive in the hills of Kentucky -Basic training with the APCs -Assumed he’d drive an APC in Vietnam -Treated a little better by the drill sergeants in Leadership School (00:11:15) Deployment to Vietnam -Received orders for Vietnam -Went home for two or three weeks of leave -Went to Fort Lewis, Washington, to fly to Vietnam -Family wasn’t happy about his deployment, or his initial enlistment -Mother and sisters were upset -He saw it as an adventure -Not thinking about going into a warzone -Stopped at Anchorage, Alaska, and either at Okinawa or Japan (00:13:03) Arrival in Vietnam -Landed at Cam Ranh Bay -There were a lot of soldiers -It was foreign territory -Placed in barracks and processed -Did paperwork, issued uniforms, and getting used to the climate -Stayed at Cam Ranh Bay for a week (00:14:35) Assignment to 101st Airborne Division -Assigned to the 101st Airborne Division -Knew nothing about the division -Flown up to Camp Evans located in I Corps (northernmost part of South Vietnam) �-Flew in a military transport -Had barracks, a mess hall, and served as a central hub for the 101st Airborne Division -Stayed for a few days -Did more paperwork and given a rucksack -Pulled guard duty (00:16:20) Joining A Company -Assigned to A Company, 2nd Battalion, of the 506th Infantry Regiment -Sent out by helicopter to join A Company in the field -Dropped off at a landing zone -His platoon received him in the field -Didn’t know where he was, exactly, but knew he was operating near the A Shau Valley -Didn’t know what to do -Platoon leader introduced himself and assigned him to a squad -Squad didn’t explain anything to him other than to follow their lead (00:18:45) Patrols -Stayed in the field for a few weeks before returning to Camp Evans -Patrolled all day then set up camp at night -Used preexisting trails and forged their own trails in the jungle -It was incredibly hot -Given an M79 grenade launcher -Had no enemy contact on his first patrol -Always on alert for ambushes -There were only 20 men in his platoon, far below paper strength of a platoon -He adapted to life in the field after a few days -It was physically and psychologically taxing -Stayed quiet on patrols -Men barely talked, and when they did it was in a whisper -Pulled guard duty at night -Allowed to smoke in the field, but had to cup your hand around the cigarette at night -Patrolled the mountains and the jungle -After patrols they returned to Camp Evans for brief stand downs -Chance to sleep on a cot in a barracks -Chance to get a shower -Chance to drink some beer and relax -Only stayed for a night before heading back out to the field (00:23:50) Leadership in A Company -Doesn’t remember his first company commander -Remembers when Chuck Hawkins took command of A Company -Lee Widjeskog was his platoon leader by early 1970 (00:24:40) Enemy Contact -Remembers his first enemy contact -They were walking on a trail and took enemy fire -He took cover and waited for the firefight to end �-Scary, but survivable since he did what everyone else did -The grenade launcher was worthless in a firefight -He couldn’t pick out targets in the jungle like he could with a rifle -He walked point twice (leading the unit on a patrol) -Given an M16 when he walked point -Level of enemy activity started to increase in April 1970 (00:27:10) Establishing Firebase Ripcord -A Company was selected to lead the charge in establishing Firebase Ripcord in March 1970 -A Company’s mission was aborted before he went to the field -Patrolled the area around Firebase Ripcord after it was established (00:28:05) Firebase Ripcord -Rotated onto Firebase Ripcord for a week of base security after it was established -It was a dirty hill with various bunkers and artillery pieces -Didn’t take any incoming fire when A Company was on Ripcord (00:28:40) Battle of Firebase Ripcord Pt. 1 -Note: Battle of Firebase Ripcord from July 1 – 23, 1970 -Had brief enemy contact around Firebase Ripcord before the battle began -Only lasted five or ten minutes -Didn’t know what was going on with the other units -On July 18th, he witnessed the Chinook helicopter crash landing on Ripcord -Destroyed all the artillery pieces and the artillery ammunition -Started working close together as a full company as the battle progressed -Enemy activity got worse after July 18th -A platoon in A Company found a North Vietnamese communication line near the end -He wasn’t aware of the discovery -Had sporadic firefights and found abandoned North Vietnamese bunkers -A Vietnamese scout worked with his unit during the battle -Never used the grenade launcher during the battle of Ripcord -Couldn’t pick targets with it -Finally got a .45 caliber pistol as a backup weapon (00:34:32) Casualties -Remembers one man in his platoon getting shot in the legs -Bled out and died because a medevac couldn’t get to him in time -Sent out to gather the bodies of four soldiers -One soldier got shot in the buttocks (00:35:34) Getting Wounded the First Time -He took some minor shrapnel in his legs and back from friendly fire -Sent to Da Nang and placed on a Navy hospital ship for about a week to recover -He was considered walking wounded, so he helped on the ship (00:36:53) R&R -Went on R&R to Eagle Beach for a few days -Note: Eagle Beach was the in-country R&R location for the 101st Airborne Division -He never got his R&R because he got wounded before he could take it �(00:37:30) Battle of Firebase Ripcord Pt. 2 -On July 21st, A Company regrouped and set up outposts near their position -Could tell things were going on around Firebase Ripcord -On July 22nd, A Company moved out of its position -His squad walked point for the company, and he was selected to walk point -This meant he was at the front of the entire company -Didn’t get very far before he saw a North Vietnamese soldier -Enemy soldier ran from him -Douglas took cover behind a tree -Something exploded behind the tree and knocked out his hearing -Douglas and the man behind him started working their way back to the company -A Company got hit by satchel charges, grenades, and machine gun fire -His platoon got cut off from the rest of A Company -Leaves fell and the ground shook from all the explosions -His platoon established a perimeter and he kept moving to different positions -A satchel charge landed by him, blew off his helmet and melted his rifle -A Company regained radio contact and started calling in airstrikes -Watched as bombs exploded and vaporized the trees and enemy soldiers -North Vietnamese retreated after the airstrikes -During the battle, he’d been shot in the butt and hip, but didn’t realize it -Didn’t know about it until he got back to Camp Evans after the battle -During the night of July 22nd, they established a perimeter and waited for enemy activity -Enemy didn’t attack on the night of the 22nd (00:45:57) Fall of Firebase Ripcord -On July 23rd, Company D flew into the field and rescued A Company -He didn’t know that Firebase Ripcord had been evacuated and was going to be destroyed -Didn’t know that A Company was the last unit in the field -Didn’t know that A Company had fought off a battalion of North Vietnamese soldiers -Note: On July 23rd, the 101st abandoned Ripcord and had it destroyed by B-52 bombers (00:47:35) Recovery -He developed a severe fever and went to the hospital at Camp Evans and spent a night there -There he realized he’d been shot during the fighting on July 22nd -Taken to the hospital in Da Nang -His fever got worse -Evacuated to a hospital in Japan -Spent two or three weeks at that hospital -Family was notified that he’d been wounded and he also wrote home -Visited the American Club and went to downtown Tokyo -Because he’d been wounded twice, his tour in Vietnam was done (00:50:20) Coming Home -Flew home from Japan -Allowed to go home for a few weeks -Landed at Fort Lewis, Washington, and stayed there for a few days �-Knew about antiwar protesters -Never experienced open hostility, but he knew Vietnam veterans were disliked (00:52:21) End of Service -Placed in an armored unit at Fort Carson, Colorado, for the remainder of his enlistment -Had a medical profile -Meant that he couldn’t life over 20 pounds or be around loud noises -Placed in maintenance and pulled guard duty -Found it be very boring duty, and he spent a lot of time watching TV -Given an early discharge in May 1972 to go back to college (00:53:34) Life after Service Pt. 1 -Attended the University of Iowa for three years -He appreciated things more -Didn’t have any major problems adjusting to civilian life -His friends were against the war, but they weren’t against him -They were amazed he’d gone to Vietnam and survived -Never experienced any antiwar activity at college -Thinks that by 1972 most antiwar activity had tapered off -Note: Last major antiwar activity was in May 1972 due to Operation Linebacker -He didn’t talk about the war, because he didn’t want to sound like he was bragging -Talked with his brother-in-law about the fighting on July 22nd -Knew America was losing the war by 1970 -Didn’t pay attention to the war after he came home (00:56:48) Drugs, Race Relations, & Morale -There was weed at Ripcord, but he didn’t partake -Wanted to stay alert and stay alive -Never saw any racial tensions -There were a few black soldiers that opposed the war, but they still did their job -Morale was okay -Soldiers opposed the war, but they knew they had to work to survive (00:58:40) Life after Service Pt. 2 -After college, he got into the insurance business with his brother-in-law in Nebraska -Did that for a couple years -Worked for another company -He was self-employed after his second job -Worked in accounting and real estate -Part of the Florida Association of Postsecondary Schools (00:59:30) Reflections on Service -Didn’t like the service or Vietnam, but it’s part of who he is as a person -Transformative experience -Taught him to rely on other people and to be reliable -Made him responsible -He wouldn’t send his children to fight in a war like that, but wouldn’t change that he did it � 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 McVayD1968V Title A name given to the resource McVay, Douglas (Interview outline and video), 2016 Description An account of the resource Douglas McVay was born in Monticello, Iowa, on December 18, 1949. In August 1969, he enlisted in the Army. He received his basic training and advanced infantry training at Fort Polk, Louisiana, then received armored personnel carrier training at Fort Knox, Kentucky. In late fall of that year, he was deployed to Vietnam where he joined A Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division. For the rest of 1969 and into the spring of 1970 he patrolled around Camp Evans, then from April through July he and A Company patrolled around Firebase Ripcord. During the Battle of Firebase Ripcord (July 1 – July 23, 1970), his company fought around Ripcord, and got into a severe firefight on July 22nd in which Douglas was wounded. After being rescued on July 23rd, he was taken out of combat. He recovered in Japan and returned to the United States. He served at Fort Carson, Colorado, for the remainder of his enlistment and was discharged in May 1972. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource McVay, Douglas 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 Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American United States. 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Special Collections & University Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2016-10-21 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf video/mp4 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/70092d4325db46ad6fdb3cdbb8fe335f.mp4 c35b963da169205345447fdc6898ad24 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/a33d4e1cc0def9b6da5c2e862a452c13.pdf c63954d73c73b9c1f6274d7ac9ef996a PDF Text Text Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project William McViker (00:33:19) Background (00:15) • (:15)Born August 12 1959 in Lewistown Pennsylvania • Graduated from Lewistown Area High School • Currently working for Perrigo in Allegan Michigan-Pharmaceutical Company (2:00) Air Force • Time enlisted during the bombing of Libya-4yr event • 2yrs in Incirlik Air Force Base Turkey • Married with daughter before service-son during service • (2:45) Turkey approximately ’82-88(based on daughter’s age while in Turkey) • Visited Historical Sites • Position: Nuclear Weapon Aircraft Security • Worked with numerous men and officers guarding weapons • (5:10) Family stayed on base • Built close friendships • Numerous cutbacks-lack of promotions • (7:50)Training-South Dakota-proved challenging-matured oneself • Sent to tech school--police training • Reported to Army base-Camp Bullis-Air Base Ground Defense-spent hours in foxholes • (9:50)Impact on the family-phone call status-gone from 8 hours to 4 days • Two brothers in service-navy and marines • (14:00)Service time 5 years 7 months • Exited the service-drifted for few years • (16:20)Williams believes in compulsory military service • Detox from military life was difficult (19:30)Michigan • New wife had family in Michigan • Palisades Nuclear Power Plant offered William job--security • Ran Sporting goods store • Began working for Perrigo • (27:40)Father died at 49 years old when William was 21 years old � 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 McVickerW Title A name given to the resource McVicker, William J. (Interview outline and video), 2006 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource McVicker, William J. Description An account of the resource William McViker served his country during the Cold War. He was in the Air Force serving as security of nuclear weapons. During his service, the United States bombed Libya. He states that most of his time in the military was peaceful and that the service matured him as a person. He also states that he felt that the United States should have a compulsory military. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Keeler, Amanda (Interviewer) Subject The topic of the resource Oral history Veterans History Project (U.S.) Video recordings United States--History, Military Michigan--History, Military Veterans United States. Army. Air Corps Other veterans & civilians--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 2006-04-16 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/433395ac550a1b2306e259f31976d765.jpg 929349ee4b2b9ea16476a4ebebb9e8d4 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_1498 Title A name given to the resource MD 450 Ouragan fighter Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource United States. Navy Description An account of the resource MD 450 ouragan French fighter, September 1, 1954. Subject The topic of the resource United States. 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Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/863f9bbeaf34998bcc69c1d7ce465822.jpg 04bcc1f27ac3802c3aac72505d726069 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. 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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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