Fred Holland: Interview
- Date
2007-08-02
- Main contributor
Holland, Fred
- Summary
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Fred Holland, U.S. Navy, WW II (Interviewed Aug.2, 2007) “You call, we haul” was the motto of boat pool 15, a Navy unit during World War II where Fred Holland of Bryan was first a Coxswain and then a motor mechanic. His job in the Pacific was to transport Marines onto the beaches on LCMs. LCM were best known as the landing craft that delivered troops to the beaches of France on D-Day, but they were also critical in the Pacific Campaign.
- Contributors
KAMU-TV (Television station : College Station, Tex.); Turbiville, Tom
- Genres
MovingImage; interview; Oral histories
- Subjects
Holland, Fred; Veterans--United States--Interviews; United States. Navy; United States. Navy; World War, 1939-1945
- Collection
Veterans of the Valley
- Unit
Collections
- Language
English
- Terms of Use
In copyright-educational use permitted; For more information, see http://rightsstatementsorg/vocab/InC-EDU/10/
- Notes
Items in this collection were donated to Cushing Memorial Library and Archives in 2017 by Tom Turbiville
Creation/Production Credits
From "Veterans of the Valley," a television series created by host Tom Turbiville and produced at KAMU-TV’s studio on the Texas A&M University, College Station campus
Local Note
reformatted digital
- Other Identifier
Catalog Key: 03-VOTV-Holland_Fred-video
Access Restrictions
This item is accessible by: the public.