Floyd, Jack (Interview outline and video), 2005

• Main Author: Floyd, Jack
• Other Authors: Collins Sr., Charles E. (Interviewer), Collins, Carol (Interviewer)
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives 2005
• Subjects: Oral history; Veterans History Project (U.S.); United States > History; Military; Michigan > History; World War; 1939-1945 > Personal narratives; American; United States. Army; Veterans; Video recordings; Iceland
• Online Access: https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/28881; https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/d2dde65c408cb20c215ebd63ce8ec90b.mp4; https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/71bd0377bafb7999d4b8b6b85aad90a3.pdf

Jack Floyd served in the United States Army, 1st Engineers, 5th Infantry Division, during WW II. He was part of the Third Army and describes Normandy, the Battle of the Bulge, and General Patton. He also describes trapping, skinning and eating muskrats. He was involved in the Field Training exercises in the southern Mississippi River Valley, and was also stationed in Iceland, England, Ireland and continental Europe.