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Notes:: Binding of The Whip Hand: A Tale of the Pine Country, by Samuel Merwin, published by Doubleday, Page & Company, 1903.
Date Created:: 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Notes:: Binding of The Light That Failed, by Rudyard Kipling, published by Doubleday, Page & Co., 1908.
Date Created:: 1908-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Notes:: Binding of Lewis Carroll in Wonderland and at Home, by Belle Moses, published by D. Appleton and Company, 1910.
Date Created:: 1910-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Notes:: Binding of Tomahawk and Cross, by William Harley, published by The Book Concern, c.1925.
Date Created:: 1925-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Notes:: Robert Austin was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan and grew up on a farm. He enlisted in the Marine Corps in June, 1941 and trained first for the Marine Air Corps and then for the Marine Paratroopers. He eventually was assigned to the 5th Marine Division and was in the first wave of the landing on Iwo Jima. He was wounded soon after the landing and spent the rest of the war in hospitals. He re-enlisted after the war and played on a Marine baseball team prior to being discharged.
Date Created:: 2008-12-04T00:00:00Z
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Collection:: Veterans History Project (U.S.)

Notes:: James Dingman is a Korean War veteran who served in the ROTC and then the U.S. National Guard from 1949 to 1961. In this account, Dingman discusses his pre-enlistment, enlistment and training and active duty in the U.S. Dingman also discusses what growing up during WWII was like, and his police career as a whole.
Date Created:: 2009-06-02T00:00:00Z
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Collection:: Veterans History Project (U.S.)

Notes:: Kay Maxson, born in Lowell Michigan in 1933, enlisted in the Naval Reserve in early 1951, and was called to active duty in January, 1952. Trained in fire and damage control, he was assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Oriskany. After he joined the ship at Norfolk, Virginia, it sailed to Guantanamo and to Panama, but the ship turned out to be too wide to get through the Canal, and had to go around the Horn instead to reach the Pacific, and was damaged in the processed. They stopped in Chile and Peru, then went to San Francisco to pick up its aircraft, and then went to Hawaii to train the pilots before going on to Korea. They crossed the Pacific and visited Hong Kong, Vietnam and Japan, and patrolled off the North Korean coast before returning to port in 1953.
Date Created:: 2011-09-20T00:00:00Z
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Collection:: Veterans History Project (U.S.)

Notes:: William Phillips was born in Flint, Michigan and graduated from high school in 1936. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps in April of 1941 and was sent to Chanute Air Field in Illinois for airplane mechanic school. William also went through crew training and gunnery school, later becoming an instructor training men to work as gunners with B-24s. He later got his orders to work overseas and was sent to Puerto Princesa Bay where he began working with the 2nd Emergency Rescue Squadron.
Date Created:: 2009-09-19T00:00:00Z
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Collection:: Veterans History Project (U.S.)

Notes:: James Schultz was born in Chicago, Illinois on August 2, 1964 and then moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1975. He enlisted in the Army after a year of college and signed up to be an airborne medical specialist. James then went to boot camp and jump school. After that he had medical training at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. James was stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina with the 82nd Airborne and worked for the HQ Company. His field training at Fort Bragg included a lot of jumps. James then received cold weather training in Wisconsin and jungle training in Panama.
Date Created:: 2008-06-28T00:00:00Z
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Notes:: LeRoy Van Vleet was born in Michigan in 1931. He enlisted in the Air Force in 1931, and received training as a specialist in fuels and lubricants. He was assigned to a refueling base in the Aleutian Islands for thirteen months, and then spent the rest of his time in the service at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida.
Date Created:: 2010-12-15T00:00:00Z
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