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- US LSD landing ship dock, October 1, 1947.
- Date Created:
- 1947-10-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
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- APD US high speed transport, October 1, 1947.
- Date Created:
- 1947-10-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
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- PCE US patrol craft, October 1, 1947.
- Date Created:
- 1947-10-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
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- George Gordon was born in Evanston, Illinois in 1925. He grew up in Lacrosse, Wisconsin and Winnetka, Illinois and graduated from high school in 1943. In April 1943 he received a draft notice for the Army, but enlisted in the Marine Corps. He trained at San Diego and Camp Pendleton, California and specialized with the BAR (Browning Automatic Rifle). In December 1943 he was sent to Guadalcanal in the South Pacific where he joined C Company of the 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine, Regiment, 3rd Marine Division. In June 1944 he partook in the invasion of Guam where, after neutralizing a Japanese machine gun nest, he was awarded the Silver Star. At the start of 1945 his unit sailed to Iwo Jima but did not land, and instead returned to Guam to clear out Japanese stragglers and prepare for the invasion of Japan. He remained there after the Japanese surrender and returned home in December.
- Date Created:
- 2014-06-26T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
- Collection:
- Veterans History Project (U.S.)
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- Sam Rawlinson was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1948 and grew up in Spartanburg, South Carolina. After graduating from high school in 1967 he decided to join the Army. He did his basic training at Ft. Bragg in North Carolina. He then went to Ft. Dix in New Jersey for AIT as a mechanic. Sam received orders to go to Vietnam by October of 1968. After Vietnam he worked at Ft. Hood in Texas for three years and after that he went to Germany for two years. He retired from the military in 1988 and retired from the work force in 2008.
- Date Created:
- 2014-10-10T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
- Collection:
- Veterans History Project (U.S.)
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- Program for the Dessert Reception for the opening of "Rescuers of the Holocaust: Portraits by Gay Block" and "West Michigan Rescuers: Portraits by Claudia S. Liberatore" at the Grand Rapids Public Museum.
- Date Created:
- 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
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- Syllabus written for HP 231 The Holocaust and the Social Sciences, Fall 1990, including an annotated bibliography on literature on the Holocaust.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
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- Journal of an anonymous GVSU student's life after GVSU was impacted by COVID-19.
- Date Created:
- 2020-04-23T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
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- The LGBT Resource Center's invitation to students to celebrate the holidays with them on December 8, 2017.
- Date Created:
- 2017-12-08T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
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- Pamphlet detailing the social justice training series for the 2012 winter semester and inviting everyone to apply for it.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
