Hovinga, Joseph (Interview outline and video), 2015

• Main Author: Hovinga, Joseph
• Other Authors: Smither, James (Interviewer)
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Grand Valley State University Libraries. Allendale, Michigan 2015
• Subjects: Oral history; Veterans History Project (U.S.); United States > History; Military; Michigan > History; Veterans; World War; 1939-1945 > Personal narratives; American; United States. Army; Attu Island; Attu; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/41229; https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/466098295a92204ff01d6617cef00c2e.mp4; https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/97620d8dd38248df8e8655d0b1d1f4e9.pdf

Joseph Hovinga was born in 1923 in Dorr, Michigan. He grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan and enlisted in the Army in 1942. He trained at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania, and Fort Ord, California. He was sent to Hawaii and was assigned to H Company 32nd Infantry Regiment 7th Infantry Division. He saw action on Attu Island in the Aleutian Islands Campaign, on Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands Campaign, on Leyte in the Philippines, and on Okinawa.