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- Description: Fred Bernhardt enlisted in the Marines at the age of 17 in early 1944. He served in the Pacific Theater of WWII as an artillery observer for naval bombardments. He also served as a guard of the atomic bomb which was dropped on Nagasaki
![Bernhardt, Fred (Interview outline and video, 2 of 2), 2007 Bernhardt, Fred (Interview outline and video, 2 of 2), 2007](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/a0e2fb6efc2e758b09a85b43f1fbf15d.jpg)
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- Description: Morris Vander Veen is a World War II veteran who served in the U.S. Marines from 1944 to 1946. In this account he discusses his pre-enlistment, enlistment and training in the U.S. and the Pacific. Serving his active duty in the Pacific Theater
- Text: (28:14) o Left the Solomon Islands on March 15th, 1944 [1945] bound for Okinawa. Their convoy met up at a little atoll called Ulithi Atoll, Yap, Micronesia. Describes how it was the largest convoy invasion fleet in the Pacific Theater of WWII
![Vander Veen, Maurice (Interview outline and video), 2005 Vander Veen, Maurice (Interview outline and video), 2005](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/9dc89530fe67ff978bdfd16c384ec71f.jpg)
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- Description: Frank Micele was born in Grand Rapids Michigan in 1923 and served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1943-1946 in the Pacific Theater during World War II. During his service, he fought in the entirety of the Battle of Iwo Jima and was involved
![Micele, Francisco (Interview outline and video), 2011 Micele, Francisco (Interview outline and video), 2011](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/09531863643402be3aaa73e01b593d39.jpg)
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- Description: Fred Bernhardt enlisted in the Marines at the age of 17 in early 1944. He served in the Pacific Theater of WWII as an artillery observer for naval bombardments. He also served as a guard of the atomic bomb which was dropped on Nagasaki
![Bernhardt, Fred (Interview outline and video, 1 of 2), 2007 Bernhardt, Fred (Interview outline and video, 1 of 2), 2007](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/90f5cb9436f3f894717656dc60bfd9d7.jpg)