Fred Plank World War II Interview

Fred Plank World War II Interview

World War, 1939-1945 -- United States.

United States -- History, Military.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans -- Interviews.

United States. Army.

Fred Plank was drafted into the United States Army in 1942. He was first assigned to the Infantry (411th Division), and then transferred into the Army’s 382nd Field Artillery, where he served as the ammunition sergeant. He was medically discharged in 1945. Interviewed by Brian Grubbs on June 22, 2007, Plank talked about his military experiences during the Second World War. Plank was born in Garden City, Missouri on August 18, 1919. He went to basic training at Camp Claiborne in Louisiana and then went to school in Mount Pleasant, Iowa. Plank passed away on October 22, 2016.

Plank, Fred

Kansas Veterans of World War II Oral History Project / Lawrence Remembers: The World War II Years Project

Lawrence Public Library (Lawrence, Kan.)

2007-06-22

Grubbs, Brian

Kansas State Historical Society

The original copy of this video is available through the Lawrence Public Library. The Watkins Museum of History and the Kansas State Historical Society also have interviews associated with this project, which was funded through a grant program passed by the Kansas State Legislature in 2005. Researchers are responsible for obtaining any necessary permissions for uses other than educational or scholarly research. Contact the Watkins Museum of History for additional information: https://www.watkinsmuseum.org/

To access the video recording of this oral history, go to: https://archive.org/details/plank-fred-wwii-interview

Obituary: https://obituaries.ljworld.com/obituaries/ljworld/obituary.aspx?n=fred-plank&pid=182126229&fhid=20441

The Watkins Museum of History also holds items related to this collection.

Transcripts for this project are available through the Kansas Memory Digital Collection: https://www.kansasmemory.org/item/212784

Other resources for interviews with World War II veterans are available through the Library of Congress' Veterans History Project: https://www.loc.gov/vets/vets-home.htm

MP4

eng

Oral History

Plank_Fred WWII Interview

Mount Pleasant (Iowa)

1942 - 1945

VHS

0:32:59

127 kbit/s (audio)

1623 kbit/s (video)

Grubbs, Brian

Plank, Fred

Baldwin City (Kan.)