| Title: |
Jack Gifford
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
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| Collection: |
Personal Oral History
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| Description: |
"I was inducted in Great Lakes, Illinois. That was my first, that was five weeks and six days. We learned pretty near everything, how to live in the Navy, stuff like that, oh, the terminology they had, like left for port, you have to say port for left and starboard for right. Stuff like that, we learned all that. And of course we had a lot of physical training, calisthenics, we did a lot of calisthenics."
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| URL: |
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~amnornes/Jessica.html
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Time span: |
Not indicated ... to 1999 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
Gifford, Jack
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker occupation: |
Military personnel
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| Document date: |
1999
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| Interviewer: |
Maison, Jessica
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| Historical events discussed: |
World War II, 1939-1945
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| Locations discussed: |
Michigan; North America; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
Biography; Interviews; Local history; Michigan; Michigan--History; North America; Oral history; United States; United States--History; World War II, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0029268-32388
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