Minnesota's Greatest Generation Oral History Project: Part II: Interview with Martin C. Menk, Jr.

Titles: Minnesota's Greatest Generation Oral History Project: Part II: Interview with Martin C. Menk, Jr. (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Martin Menk was born in St. Peter, Minnesota and attended Gustavus Adolphus College. In 1941 he volunteered for the Navy and was eventually sent to the Pacific on a tender. Menk spent time at Pearl Harbor and ended up on a submarine that went to waters of the coasts of both Japan and China. After the war he finished his college education and began his own engineering firm. He also married and raised a family. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Living in a predominantly German community; housing situation: outside toilet, heating, washing clothes; life during the Great Depression; popular events: weddings, funerals, birthdays, Christmas, 4th of July; growing up in the public school system; volunteering for the Navy; going into fire control training after boot camp; repairing submarines on a tender; life on a submarine; encountering and attacking Japanese ships; going back to college on the GI Bill; attending Gustavus Adolphus College, the University of Arizona, and Washington State University; starting an engineering company with a friend; humble beginnings to a successful engineering firm; family life in the 1950s.

Dates

• 02/29/2008 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewee: Menk, Martin Jr.
• interviewer: Bekke, Douglas

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 115
• Accession Number: AV2008.26.25

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

• Oral History - Project, MHS Collection, project: 'Minnesota's Greatest Generation Oral History Project: Part II' <OH 115>

Quantity: 3 hours sound cassettes 80 pages transcript

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 180 minutes length

Subjects

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