Minnesota's Greatest Generation Oral History Project: Part I: Interview with Edward Sovik

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

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Edward Sovik was born in1918 in Zhongxiang, China. The son of Lutheran missionary parents, he spent the first seventeen years of his life in China, completing high school in a nearby boarding school. In 1935, Sovik's parents returned to Minnesota. He completed Lutheran seminary in 1941 before enlisting in the U.S. Marine Corps. He joined a night fighter squadron and was shipped out to the Pacific. He flew F4U Corsairs. He ended active duty with the rank of Captain in 1945. He later worked as an architect. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Decision to join the U.S. Marines; serving in the Pacific; experience of air combat in the Pacific; change in career paths from the seminary to Yale; experience as a night fighter training officer; meeting President Roosevelt at a military hospital in Hawaii; flying F4U Corsairs and experience of crash landing in Saipan; attitudes held during the war about Japanese fighters.

Dates

• 05/08/2003 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewee: Sovik, Edward
• interviewer: Saylor, Thomas

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 112
• Accession Number: AV2006.1.25

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 46 pages transcript

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 111 minutes length

Subjects

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