Oral history interviews with John Helmer, Jr, by Jim Strassmaier
- SR 3009
- Series
- 1994-08-27
Part of World War II Oral History Series
A model life history including: Swedes in Oregon; intergenerational family relations; retail business in three generations; personal spiritual conversion (Presbyterian); military service as pilot in World War II, Pacific theatre; postwar experience in Japan; Helmer clothing store, fortunes through recession of early 1980s.
Helmer, John, 1923-