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- Text: ...Interview Notes Interview Length (16:00) Jay Shook World War II Veteran Korean War Veteran US Navy Pre-Enlistment Lived in Caledonia when he signed up for the Navy (0:35) Signed up for travel and adventure (0:47) Training Was trained at Great Lakes, Illinois (0:55) Was there for ...
![Shook, Jay (Interview outline and video), 2005 Shook, Jay (Interview outline and video), 2005](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/6d3a0d3a951432d28b1c7f477c058ac3.jpg)
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- Text: ...Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project James Chamberlain (00:52:27) (00:30) Background Information • • • • James was born in Highland Park, MI, on August 16, 1926 His father worked with a realty corporation and his mother was a housewife James went to school in Detr...
![Chamberlain, James (Interview outline and video), 2007 Chamberlain, James (Interview outline and video), 2007](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/4af8dedbb584401527c93bfabdaa18e2.jpg)
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- Text: Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Interview Harry Vanderstow World War II Total Time: 17:11 Pre-War (00:02) • • • • Born in 1926. His parents were farmers, and he had 2 brothers and 1 sister.
![Vanderstow, Harry (Interview outline and video), 2008 Vanderstow, Harry (Interview outline and video), 2008](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/7ca2c2a980d9e027122bf2d0ea3e2624.jpg)
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- Text: ...Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Interview Fred Breuninger Length: 34:43 (00:03) Background Information and Training • • • • • Fred was born on April 22, 1922 His father was a banker He enlisted in the Air Force He had gone to Castle Lake Military Academy so...
![Breuninger, Fred (Interview outline and video), 2008 Breuninger, Fred (Interview outline and video), 2008](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/2ee2831d802042be1ea09c879369e83e.jpg)
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- Text: ...Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Keith Blough (11:54) Pre-Enlistment • Born August 28, 1925 (0:20) • Born south of Freeport, MI (0:38) • Attended Freeport High School (0:45) Enlistment • Drafted in to the Navy in November of 1943 (1:15) • Had a lot of confusi...
![Blough, Keith (Interview outline and video), 2004 Blough, Keith (Interview outline and video), 2004](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/8bd6c2952f920b050591347c870fe3d9.jpg)
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- Text: ...Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Ted Burzynski (55:57) Background Information (00:20) • • Ted was born in Michigan on April 18, 1916 He has been living in the Grand Rapids Home for Veterans since 2004 Las Vegas (1:30) • • • • Ted was approached ...
![Burzynski, Thadius (Interview outline and video), 2007 Burzynski, Thadius (Interview outline and video), 2007](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/d9bb3b487e9b7eb5aebaff9484cb9f98.jpg)
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- Text: ...Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Interview Name of Interviewer: Win Mueller Name of War: World War II Length of Interview: (00:34:11) (00:15) Training Win was drafted in 1942 and inducted at Fort Custer in Battle Creek, Michigan He went through tra...
![Mueller, Winfried S. (Interview outline and video), 2003 Mueller, Winfried S. (Interview outline and video), 2003](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/d77986b9e57b3b582905f7a2d90e64a5.jpg)
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- Text: Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Interview Frederick Rawsthorne (42:20) Pre Enlistment Born in St Helens, England, June 6, 1922 Family immigrated to America when very young Returned to England with Mother and Father few years later, back to St Helens.
![Rawsthorne, Frederick (Interview outline and video), 2006 Rawsthorne, Frederick (Interview outline and video), 2006](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/87a9f14883a6df347a7b8f8ab0c0405e.jpg)
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- Description: ...Gerald Gless is a World War II veteran who served in the U.S. Army from approximately 1945 to December 1946. In this account, Gless discusses his pre-enlistment, enlistment, training, and active duty. He mentions his brief postings at various POW camps in Northern Italy and describes a pris...
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- Text: Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Interview Name of War: World War II Interviewee name: Gerald Gless Length of Interview: 19mins. 51secs. Pre‐Enlistment (00:12) • Childhood (00:20) o • Gless was born on February 6th, 1927 in Elkton, MI.
![Gless, Gerald (Interview outline and video), 2005 Gless, Gerald (Interview outline and video), 2005](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/445543a2f323aa861202abbe64d85553.jpg)
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- Text: ...Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Thaddeus Kling (43:17) (00:01) Background Information • • • • • Ted worked at Brunswick in Muskegon, MI before the war He finished the 8th grade and then went to work on a farm Ted plowed for 30 cents an hour on a dairy farm ...
![Kling, Thaddeus (Interview outline and video), 2008 Kling, Thaddeus (Interview outline and video), 2008](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/9f7e6a09460306f0857d8914dd4d4801.jpg)
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- Text: ...Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Interview Ed Brooks Length: 32:06 (00:15) Background Information • Ed was born in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan in 1940 • He had 2 brothers, his father was a farmer and his mother a housewife • Ed went to Hoover elementary school an...
![Brooks, Richard (Interview outline and video) ca. 2005 Brooks, Richard (Interview outline and video) ca. 2005](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/f0365145a3fca9572adea4a8c5cbf93b.jpg)
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- Text: ...Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Interview Interviewee’s Name: Joseph Borst Name of War: World War II Length of Interview: (00:12:04) (00:10) Background Information Joseph was a sergeant in the United States Army during World War Two Afte...
![Borst, Joseph L. (Interview outline and video), 2009 Borst, Joseph L. (Interview outline and video), 2009](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/3a46a590e2738401fc66fe44ecbacc4f.jpg)