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- Description: was in the Navy for 17 years during the Korean War and Vietnam. Gerald now resides in the Grand Rapids Home for Veterans.
- Subject: Veterans History Project (U.S.)
- Text: Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Gerald Naughton (00:33:47) (00:20) Background Information • • • • Gerald was born in Chicago, IL on December 29, 1931 His mother left his father when he was five years old They moved to Battle
![Naughton, Gerald (Interview outline and video), 2008 Naughton, Gerald (Interview outline and video), 2008](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/30537ff352df6942e6a769ec0c56ae4a.jpg)
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- Subject: Veterans History Project (U.S.)
- Text: Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Interview George Hyslop Korean War Total Time: 18:15 Childhood and Pre-Enlistment (00:23) • • • Grew up in Big Rapids, Michigan. Decided to join the National Guard, and was drafted
![Hyslop, George (Interview outline and video), 2004 Hyslop, George (Interview outline and video), 2004](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/547ca3919a0de70e42182b0e97bcd6d9.jpg)
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- Subject: Veterans History Project (U.S.)
- Text: Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Richard McCarty (7:17) Background Information (00:35) Before joining the Service he worked in the Printing department. (00:40) At the age of 21 Richard received his draft notice. (00:51
![McCarty, Richard (Interview outline), 2010 McCarty, Richard (Interview outline), 2010](/application/views/scripts/images/fallback-file.png)
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- Subject: Veterans History Project (U.S.)
- Text: Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Dr. Richard Wierenga (25:01) (00:10) Introduction: • Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan. (04:30) Air Force: • Joined the Air Force after two years of college. • Basic training was in New York
![Wierenga, Richard (Interview outline and video), 2007 Wierenga, Richard (Interview outline and video), 2007](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/f9c8322df25bb558bf6c3bf8dc7d1673.jpg)
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- Text: Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Title: Ambrose, Thomas (Interview outline and video), 2010 Subject: Korean War, 1950-1953-–Personal narratives, American; United States. Marine Corps Description: Thomas Ambrose joined the Navy
![Ambrose, Thomas (Interview outline and video), 2010 Ambrose, Thomas (Interview outline and video), 2010](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/b46df14b4b13d4523402b92406294764.jpg)
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- Subject: Veterans History Project (U.S.)
- Text: Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Korean War Murl Bogert (15:18) Background Information (00:08) Served in the Korean Conflict (00:09) Enlisted in the Marine Reserve in 1950 prior to the outbreak of the Korean War. (00:28
![Bogert, Murl (Interview outline and video), 2012 Bogert, Murl (Interview outline and video), 2012](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/27e020a254a115ecb363065b4133e40a.jpg)
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- Subject: Veterans History Project (U.S.)
- Text: Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Robert Bostwick (15:31) Pre War • Born on April 7, 1933 (0:20) • Born in Home Acres, MI (0:55) • Attended and graduated from [Grand Rapids] Central High School (1:00) • Was 8 when Pearl Harbor
![Bostwick, Robert (Interview outline and video), 2004 Bostwick, Robert (Interview outline and video), 2004](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/2d4da598b7b23c8222c990560dd9a94a.jpg)
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- Text: GrandValleyStateUniversity Veterans History Project Robert Livo (45:55) Background Information () Born in DetroitMichigan, but lived in DearbornMichigan. (00:30) His father was a manager of a department store and his mother
![Livo, Robert (Interview outline and video), 2011 Livo, Robert (Interview outline and video), 2011](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/8fbcb70e8633ca6bdf046147f3224b1c.jpg)
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- Subject: Veterans History Project (U.S.)
- Text: Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Interview Korean War Clarence Hunter Total Time – (10:01) Background He was born in London, Arkansas on September 1, 1935 (00:17) He served in the Army
![Hunter, Clarence (Interview outline), 2012 Hunter, Clarence (Interview outline), 2012](/application/views/scripts/images/fallback-file.png)
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- Description: Charles Nedwin Ash is a Korean War Veteran who served in the United States Army from July 1952 to July 20, 1954 in Japan and Korea. In this interview, Ash discusses his time in the service and also what it was like to be an African American during
- Subject: Veterans History Project (U.S.)
- Text: Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Charles Nedwin Ash (00:31:33) (00:38) Before service • Lived South Haven, MI • 10 brothers and sisters • Drafted into war o Didn’t want to go (02:36) First day in service • Bus with 50 other
![Ash, Charles Nedwin (Interview outline), 2006 Ash, Charles Nedwin (Interview outline), 2006](/application/views/scripts/images/fallback-file.png)
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- Text: Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Interview Theodore Grevers Cold War Total Time: 19:23 Pre-Enlistment and Service (00:09) Born in Chicago, IL in 1929. He was raised in The Netherlands before World War II
![Grevers, Theodore (Interview outline and video), 2009 Grevers, Theodore (Interview outline and video), 2009](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/d422f47adbff96e9d26836b2edbaab0d.jpg)
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- Subject: Veterans History Project (U.S.)
- 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
![Brooks, Ed (Interview outline and video), 2004 Brooks, Ed (Interview outline and video), 2004](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/35a010bae013091293b3f189d0b15353.jpg)