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• Text: ...Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Interview Kenneth Hicks (1:11:21) (00:05) Background Information • • • • • • Kenneth had always wanted to fly when he was a little boy He built model airplanes with his father After high school he went to Michigan State Uni...

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• Description: Willie Saddler is an African American veteran who grew up in Chicago, Illinois. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps at the end of World War II where he helped clean up and retrieve casualties from towns in Germany and Italy that were attacked during the war.
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• Text: ...Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Willie Saddler (59:20) Background information (00:10)              He was born January 11th 1928 in Columbus, Georgia. (00:17) He relocated to Chicago, Illinois when he was 3 years old in 1931 (00...

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• Text: ...Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Interview World War II Rich Natte Total Time (33:37) Background         He was born on August 10, 1924 in Grand Rapids, Michigan (00:19) His father died when he was ten years old (01:08) At the age of sixteen...

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• Text: Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Harris Van Singel (34:40) (:35) Early Life • (:35) He was born in Byron Center, at his parents’ house. They lived in that house for about six years. • (:54) They moved to the Van Singel farm, where he grew up.

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• Text: Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project World War II Dewey Lenger Length of Interview (01:06:20) (00:13) Family and Work Life Pre-Enlistment  Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan on may 21, 1922.

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• Text: ... really bad about that because I could have used those fifteen o’fives in some of these military parades that they have on Veterans Day and the Fourth of July, and marched in and walked in as a veteran, but I didn’t have my uniforms and I would have liked to have kept that. 38:...

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• Text: ...Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Fred Kerkstra (00:35:10) (00:10) Background Information • • • • Fred was born in Byron Center, Michigan in 1923 and grew up on a farm Fred did not go to high school and began helping his father with the farm after grade school ...

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• Text: Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Interview Name of War: World War II Interviewee: Richard Shaull Length of Interview: 00:53:12 Background               He was born May 16th, 1921 in Lansing, Michigan.

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• Text: Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Bob Blackwell (58:17) I am Charlie Collins. My wife Carol and I spend many hours a month volunteering at the Grand Rapids Home for Veterans. We do this for the Masonic Service Association.

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• Text: ...Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project John Reeves (02:24:23) (01:01)Lawrence Michigan • John grew up on a 50 acre farm • Born March 18 1924 • Went to school in a one room school house until second grade • Went to Lawrence Public Schools thru 4th grade • Went to Pa...

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• Text: Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Interview Mildred Jane Doyle Interviewer: Frank Boring Transcribed by Emilee G. Johnson, Western Michigan University Length: 57:00 Interview begins at 3:05 Frank Boring: Let’s begin with your name and where and when you were born.