Reynolds, Allan Jay (Interview outline and video), 2015

• Main Author: Reynolds, Allan Jay
• Other Authors: Moore, Deb (Interviewer)
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Grand Valley State University Libraries. Allendale, Michigan 2015
• Subjects: Oral history; Veterans History Project (U.S.); United States > History; Military; Veterans; Video recordings; World War; 1939-1945 > Personal narratives; American; United States. Navy; Antarctic; Grand Haven; Pacific; Petty; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; Alaska; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/40692; https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/34b64558d00a7960c3d05d1adeefeb87.m4v; https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/1783334ffdafbd2d9deba39b0521c53d.pdf

Allan Reynolds was born in Grand Haven, Michigan in 1923. After graduating from high school he enlisted in the Navy in 1941 and received basic training at Great Lakes Naval Station, Illinois and went to Aviation Radio School in San Diego, California. He was stationed in Alaska when the war began and served at Dutch Harbor during the Aleutian Islands Campaign. He was sent to Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, Washington and volunteered for Flight School at that time. He received flight training and operational training in Louisiana, Tennessee, and finally Florida with PBY and PBM seaplanes, promoted to the rank of Petty Officer 1st Class Aviation Pilot. At the end of World War Two he flew patrols over the Pacific Coast. He was part of VH-4 Squadron at Bikini Atoll for atomic testing in summer 1946 and was part of Operation Highjump in Antarctica from December 1946 to April 1947. During the Antarctic expedition he discovered a trough that was named after him, Reynolds Trough. He made a career out of the Navy and was stationed in China, Japan, all over the U.S., and in the United Kingdom. After twenty years of service he completed his career at Great Lakes Naval Station and retired in September 1961.