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- Jerry McFarland was born on March 24, 1933 and enlisted in the Navy in 1950 after graduating from high school. Jerry trained at Great Lakes Naval Academy in Chicago, Illinois and was then stationed in Norfolk, Virginia. He worked there for about 4 years transporting Marines to Puerto Rico to train for the Korean War. Jerry was discharged after 4 years, but found himself bored with civilian life and then enlisted in the Army. While in the Army Jerry worked in Texas, Germany, France, Colorado Springs, and Vietnam, where he served with an engineer unit.
- Date Created:
- 2005-05-23T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
- Collection:
- Veterans History Project (U.S.)
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- Jack Norton was born in Ottawa County, Michigan, in 1920. He graduated from high school in 1937 and enlisted in the Navy in 1938. He trained as a machinist's mate and sailed first on a transport ship in the Pacific, then on the destroyer USS Barker from 1940 to 1943, engaging mostly in convoy escorts and antisubmarine patrols in the Pacific (including visits to China before Pearl Harbor) and Atlantic (sinking two U-Boats). He then transferred to the destroyer escort USS Henry R. Kenyon, and again served in the Atlantic and Pacific, witnessing a kamakaze attack at Okinawa and ending the war in the Philippines.
- Date Created:
- 2008-12-15T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
- Collection:
- Veterans History Project (U.S.)
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- Gerald Garner was born in West Branch, Michigan, on May 25, 1927. During the Great Depression, his family's jewelry shop was diversified as his father agreed to share the space with an energy company so he could pay the rent. Garner signed onto a radar technician program with the Navy in the closing months of the war and attedned Boot Camp at Great Lakes Naval Station. He was in Alameda, California, when the war ended and was quickly offered an early-out of the service due to the flood of dischargees returning home. He then went on to attend optometry school in Chicago on the GI Bill.
- Date Created:
- 2017-11-14T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
- Collection:
- Veterans History Project (U.S.)
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- HO5S US helicopter, September 1, 1955.
- Date Created:
- 1955-09-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
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- Merchant ship length and tonnage curve, May 20, 1944.
- Date Created:
- 1944-05-20T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
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- F4F Wildcat, US Navy fighter, June 30, 1943.
- Date Created:
- 1943-06-30T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
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- German torpedo bomber, medium bomber, HE (Heinkel) 111K, March 15, 1944.
- Date Created:
- 1944-03-15T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
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- F101 Voodoo US fighter, March 1, 1955.
- Date Created:
- 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
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- RC-121C Super Constellation, Early Warning, September 1, 1953.
- Date Created:
- 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
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- F2H-1 Banshee, USN fighter, December 1, 1949.
- Date Created:
- 1949-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
