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• Text: ...Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Interview Name of War: World War II Interviewee: Adrian Sytsma Length of Interview: 00:53:05 Background:  Born in 1923 at home, delivered by his grandmother.  His father would move the family to a nice neighborhood, where they wo...

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• Text: ...Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Charles Shapin (01:11:27) Childhood (00:10:18) born in Brooklyn, raised in the Syosset Bay neighborhood near the ocean (00:26:10) his father was in the wholesale fish business, his mother was a housewife; both parents were born in the U...

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• Text: ...Grand Valley State University Veterans' History Project Bernard DePrimo World War II 1 hour 14 minutes 35 seconds (00:00:10) Early Life -Born in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania -Lived there for two years -Moved to Detroit, Michigan -Father's mine in Pennsylvania had gone down -Fath...

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• Text: ...Grand Valley State University Veterans’ History Project Henry J. Pelak World War II 1 hour 9 minutes 19 seconds (00:00:04) Early Life -Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan on July 24, 1924 -He attended elementary school at Sacred Heart in Grand Rapids -He was taught discipline by the nuns -He a...

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• Text: ...Grand Valley State University Veterans’ History Project Duane Harvey World War II 1 hour 36 minutes 44 seconds (00:00:11) Early Life -Born in Smelter City, Oklahoma in 1924 -Father worked at the Eagle Pitcher Zinc Smelter -Worked part time during the Great Depression -Also worked odd jobs...

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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 Kenneth Kelly (01:47:10) Background • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Born on a farm in Coopersville, MI. (0:24) One of nine children, six boys and three girls (00:30) H...

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• Text: Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Robert Bolinder (01:46:00) Introduction (00:17) Family and Pre-enlistment (00:44) Born in the Bronx, NY in 1923. His family moved to NJ a year after he was born.

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• Text: ...Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Don Bennett (01:14:08) (00:31) Background • (00:31) His full name is Don A. Bennett, he was born in Holburton, Michigan on January 23rd, 1925. Holburton is in the Upper Peninsula. • (01:05) He recalls a childhood trip out West, and ...

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• Text: ...Grand Valley State University Veterans’ History Project Larry Nelson World War II 1 hour 6 minutes 34 seconds (00:00:16) Early Life -Born in Warren, Ohio in 1924 -Grew up in Warren and attended high school there -Father was an accountant -Mother was a housewife -Father worked for Republic...

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• Text: ...Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Stuart Padnos (01:28:28) (00:10) Background Information • • • • • • • Stuart was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan on February 22, 1922 He went to Lincoln Elementary school and was in the only Jewish family in Holland Stuart...