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GVSU Veterans History Project
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The GVSU Veterans History Project was established in 2006 to collect, record and archive oral history interviews and other materials relating to the experiences of military veterans of all eras, as well as of civilians and foreign nationals with stories relating to the American experience in wartime. We work in partnership with the Library of Congress Veterans History Project, and are one of a small number of archiving partners across the country. As an archiving partner, we post our interview videos and other materials on a website that is part of the Special Collections of the GVSU Library. To access the GVSU Veterans History Project official website, please follow this link www.gvsu.edu/vethistory/
Veterans, families, and friends: To sign up to be interviewed, to recommend a friend or relative to be interviewed, or to find out more about the interview process, please contact Dr. James Smither at Grand Valley State University: (616) 331-3422 or smitherj@gvsu.edu
Veterans, families, and friends: To sign up to be interviewed, to recommend a friend or relative to be interviewed, or to find out more about the interview process, please contact Dr. James Smither at Grand Valley State University: (616) 331-3422 or smitherj@gvsu.edu
Michael Morrow
Michael Morrow was born in Flint, Michigan, in 1951. He enlisted in the Army in 1971, training as an engineer. Because of the drawdowns in Vietnam, he initially served in the States, including as a platoon sergeant in the 25th and 9th Infantry Divisions before going to officer candidate school in 1977. From there, he served at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, and a company commander and a general's aide, and then did a tour in Germany, where he held a variety of posts including as the executive officer of the 275th Atomic Demolition Munitions Company. He held an assortment of other assignments after that, notably in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Iraq during the Gulf War. His last regular assignmen...
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Albert Burckard
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Albert Burckard Jr. was born in Norfolk Virginia in 1945. He attended the Virginia Military Institute and received his commission as an Army officer in 1967. After an initial assignment in Germany, he went to Vietnam in 1969, starting as a staff officer with the 101st Airborne Division, then serving as commander of A Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment during the early stages of the...
Dan Pfeiffer
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Dan Pfeiffer served in the US Army between 1952 and 1954. He served in an infantry unit in Korea during the last months of the Korean War in 1953. He provides detailed descriptions of combat patrols and fighting in the trench lines against the North Koreans and Chinese. Later on, he was assigned to be the chauffeur for a general.
John Wells
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John Wells was born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1930 and his family moved to Michigan in 1931, graduating from high school in 1949 in Grand Rapids. He then attended Grand Rapids Community College and served in the Michigan Army National Guard. After hearing rumors that his National Guard unit would be deployed to fight in the Korean War he decided to transfer to the Air Force in February 1951. He rec...
John Roblin
Просмотров 51728 дней назад
John Roblin joined the Army on July 5th, 1944 and was part of the first convoy to go directly to France during World War II. While in the service, John served as an officer with an infantry unit and experienced a good deal of combat and eventually injured his leg. He spent a long time in a hospital learning to walk again. After John had recovered he was moved all over Europe within different re...
Glenn Dykstra
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Glenn Dykstra was born in Oklahoma in 1932. However, because of the effects of the Dust Bowl, his family moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan. Dykstra joined the Air Force when he was seventeen and finished his school while in the service. After training at Lackland Air Force base, Dykstra taught at several bases around the country. Eventually, he shipped out to Japan and flew both bombing and cargo...
Robert Mulder
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Robert Mulder was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan and graduated from Grand Rapids Christian High School in 1947. He was drafted into the Army in October of 1950 and went through medic training at Camp Adenberry in Indiana. He went through training quickly because the Army had been short on medics. Robert was shipped to Korea and assigned to the 38th Medical Company of the 2nd Division. Robert wa...
Richard Hawley
Просмотров 170Месяц назад
Richard Hawley, born in Michigan in 1932, served in the U.S. Air Force from 1949-1953 in both the U.S. and Korea during the Korean Conflict. During his service in Korea, Richard worked as a welder and maintenance man at the K-2 air base, mainly repairing runways and aircraft. After returning to the U.S. he continued his job as a welder in Selfridge Michigan.
Marvin Honderd
Просмотров 221Месяц назад
Marv Honderd was born in Byron Center, Michigan and enlisted in the Air Force in 1951 to avoid being drafted into the army. After starting out in radio school, he switched to pilot training and became a fighter pilot. He flew 70 missions over Korea in F-86 fighters in 1953, before he was sent back the US. Afterwards he continued flying more advanced F-86 jets in Dayton, Ohio.
William Donner
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William Donner is a native of Northern Michigan. Donner worked in agriculture until the Korean War, at which time he entered the United States Army and was trained in medical evacuation. He describes his experiences as a GI on the Korean peninsula and the Japanese home islands. Donner discusses venereal disease and interactions with the natives. Donner converted to Catholicism while in Korea. H...
Tanjore Splan
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Tanjore Splan was born in St. Ignace, Michigan and grew up in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. He served in the Korean War. He joined the Army at age 17, and decided to specialize in field artillery. He trained at Fort Bragg, NC where he trained for the airborne and was then shipped to Korea, where he served with the 5th Regimental Combat Team in operations against the Chinese and North Koreans thro...
Richard Swanson
Просмотров 553Месяц назад
Richard Swanson was born in Lucas County, Iowa, in 1930 and graduated from high school in 1948. He received his draft notice in 1951, just days after he had gotten married. Richard went through training in Arkansas for only 6 weeks and was then sent to Japan to work with the 176th Armored Field Artillery Battalion. Richard spent 16 months fighting on the front line in Korea and worked to suppor...
Herm Jongsma
Просмотров 518Месяц назад
Herm Jongsma was born in the Chicago area1931. After completing high school, he attended Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, hoping to be a science teacher, and was drafted into the Army in 1952. He trained as a light mechanic, but when he went to Korea, he found himself as a driver, and volunteered to be a liaison with the Greek battalion manning part of the front line north of Seoul. He...
Rod Chapman
Просмотров 454Месяц назад
Rod Chapman was drafted into the US Army in 1951. After training as an engineer at bases in the US and as a cook in Japan, he was assigned to the 7th Division as a rifleman, where he was stationed first in the Heartbreak Ridge sector and then in the Triangle Hill sector. In the fighting at Triangle Hill, his unit suffered heavy casualties and was eventually rotated out of the line, and he was s...
Robert Samuels
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Robert Samuels was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1930 and enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1948. He trained at Parris Island, South Carolina, and Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, where he learned water purification processes. When the Korean War started in 1950, he was sent to Korea and served as a BAR gunner with E Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment. He served with that unit at Incho...
It's hard to describe one's ability to repress memories or the scars that war leaves. Even when you get home and everything feels great, a couple years later, your brain decides it's time to open the vault and rock your world.
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Welcome home brother . Stay strong , there are less of us by the day ... doc 25th I.D.
First off . Hey brother , I hope you are still kicking . I know we all had a different tour , depending on what we did . I started out working in Tay Ninh in a Med. Det and flew a FEW dust off missions and worked in our Evac Det. I ended up as a Blue with the 25th I.D. I want you to think about this brother . Philp would have had ZERO chance if YOU hadn't of had the guts to get him out of your APC !! Trust me brother , as a medic . I have beat myself up a bit about what I couldn't get done . I don't think any of us didn't freeze up a time or two , even if it was for seconds . I like you , ended up with hardly anything to show from my time in RVN . Actually , when I left in 71 there was a whole list of shit that we were given at BH while we out processed that were banned from taking home. One of those items was pictures that showed the wrong stuff . We had to dump all our shit on a table , and AFTER we had a " Free period " to dispose of banned shit that we had without penalty . Some REMP MP's dug through what was left and looked for banned shit . If something was found , they said you'd go straight to LBJ . I lost pictures and even a SKS I was going to bring home , but I did not have the proper PW . They said if I wanted to stay THREE more days in country I could submit the proper PW . I di di'd the F out and some REMP MP has been telling war stories about the SKS he brought home from Nam the last 50 odd years :D STAY STRONG BROTHER , there are less of us by the day .. doc 68-71
Killing & Dying
Welcome home sir, your story was captivating and you served with distinction, I salute you, Sir...72 yo Navy Veteran
This program has so much potential, if it only had a better interviewer!
Thank you!
I sure do miss you Dad!
Very detailed interview. Thank you
Thank you for your service to our country, Roger. Amd I thank each and every other soldier who has ever served whether they saw any action or not. God bless you, heroes each and every one .
Im so happy these Heros stories have been documented..Thank You All !!!
Amazing memory, thanks Ron.
Welcome home Roger thank you for your service..I also was in the 25th infantry division 2/14th infantry 68/69…
This interview would have been so much better if the interviewer would let him tell his story without so many interruptions.
God Bless. Good interview. New Hampshire loves all our veterans. Thank you Dick.
Somewhat heartbreaking. These poor guys came back broken. God Bless you Roger.
Great man. Great interview. Some of it is absolutely heartbreaking. You realize these guys sacrificed not only a year of their lives but it followed them around everday when they came home. Imagine the illegal immigrants flooding our boarders who know nothing about U,S history or the sacrifices our brave veterans made. Sad.
To give what they did and be treated Second Rate back at home..
Well said. I agree
This is beyond any reasonable doubt the definition of both heroic and magnanimous virtue
Thank u.
Welcome home belatedly to you and all the brave Vietnam veterans WHOOAH
My mas family is the cowman family fom cheasaning Michigan
Thank you Sir for your service.🦅 Amazing detailed story Long road.👍👍👍👍👍
Thank u for your service
There is no audio. We can't hear them speaking!!!!!
The audio comes through loud and clear when I play it on my computer. The issue may with whatever device or browser you're using, since this problem has come up with some interviews at times. You might also check the version in our main online archive. Sorry you're having trouble with it.
Excellent interview.
Thank you for your service
Thanks for your service sir.
Thank u for your service. I wish Americans were still like your generation.
I remember Nina Green calling his wife Colleen a blonde moron when I was a little kid. She said worse, but RUclips won’t let me post that here. Such a shame cause his wife was a sweetheart from what I remember. This dude is a snake though. I remember being a little boy and watching this toxic POS punch his dog across the snout HARD just for barking. Made him feel like a man. He also used to tell people he had his tear ducts removed so that he couldn’t shed tears. My family and I laugh about it to this day. Anytime we try and act “hard” we claim a Steve pullen. Mocking of course cause dudes a complete Clown show, but has left my family with laughs for almost 30 years. Thanks Steve. I don’t care what commands you had, you’re an absolute joke to us.
Thanks for your service!
Thank you Sir!
Nice to see younger veterans telling their story
Can’t hear him clearly??? Please put a bettor microphone on him! Going to look for someone else to watch….
I like this cowboy
Nice sound
"What were you feeling..." My dad is of this generation. I like to say... my dad had a feeling once. He didn't like it, so he never had another one. "Ho 48:42 w did you feel coming ashore under fire." "Wet." 😀
What a nice man! Thanks for your service
That was interesting to listen to. I haven't heard much about that time frame
all the compassion and desire to help thier fellow soldiers is incredible from all these vets. they're jumping mountains to probably die to save some people they never met. its truly remarkable and you can seriously feel it
That was one hell of a year........I`ve never heard so many stories-where`s the book from this guy?Could EASILY be made into a movie......Damn,I might even look Mr.Jakubczak`s amazing tour up myself---I think I will.........got a feeling with this one..................
This is one of those stories that stays with me. It was the first time he had ever told his story, and it came out pretty much as stream of consciousness. I've brought him into classes and public programs several times since, but this first telling of his story is probably the best.
Thank you!
Excellent interview. Thank you
Thank you for all that you did for our Country
Thank you Sir for your service.🦅 Great story.👍👍👍👍👍
For me, at about 27:23 it changes to blue screen.
That's because the interview is only that long. The person who made the original file must not have cut the video off at that point, and the person who did the outline didn't report the issue. Anyway, you're not missing anything. This one was recorded very early on, and there are still some bugs in these. Sorry for the inconvenience.
@@gvsuveteranshistoryproject34 that clears it up. Thank you
Thank you Sir for your service.🦅 Thank you for sharing your story.👍👍👍👍👍
Got the sound fixed. Now we’ve lost audio and video. What’s up with that?
I get both audio and video on my computer, so the problem must be on your end. Different machines and browsers sometimes have troubles like this. Technology is our friend...
not many people fought in the bush the vast majority were in the fire bases and bases. the ones in the fight are the people struggling today
Thank you Sir for your service.🦅 Thank you for sharing a great interesting story. 👍👍👍👍👍