Minnesota's Greatest Generation Oral History Project: Part I: Interview with Jacob Gondeck

Titles: Minnesota's Greatest Generation Oral History Project: Part I: Interview with Jacob Gondeck (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Jacob Gondeck was born in 1924 in Minnesota. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1942. He had basic training and corpsman training and spent a year in administrative work at the Naval Receiving Station in Pleasanton, California. In 1945, Gondeck was posted to Air Evacuation Group 1, on the island of Guam. Jacob was a corpsman on air evacuation flights during the battle for Okinawa and evacuated wounded combat troops from the front line to hospital facilities in Guam. After returning home from the Navy in 1948 he used the GI Bill benefits to attend college. He married in 1951. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Growing up in a small town in the 1930s; enlisting for service; training programs he went through; experience as a Navy corpsman; his post on Air Evacuation Group 1; experience in Guam; life after the war.

Dates

• 02/13/2003 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewee: Gondeck, Jacob
• interviewer: Saylor, Thomas

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 112
• Accession Number: AV2006.1.13

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

• Oral History - Project, MHS Collection, project: 'Minnesota's Greatest Generation Oral History Project: Part I' <OH 112>

Quantity: 3 hours sound cassette 57 pages transcript

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 147 minutes length

Subjects

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