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- Text: food (11:15) • Had really bad food in Basic Training (11:40) • Was in a supply unit, so was never without supplies (12:00) • Had bowling alleys and movie theaters to keep them entertained (12:50) • Had a chance while in Germany to go to Augsburg
![Austhof, Jack (Interview outline and video), 2004 Austhof, Jack (Interview outline and video), 2004](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/404dfab82d7c06c655cd4cfceae8a6ef.jpg)
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- Text: • After all the time spent in Thailand James really missed pizza, drive-in theaters, and American women (01:14:00) Oklahoma • James had been living off base in a mobile home with other men in the military • There was not much to do in Oklahoma; they were
![De la Cruz, James (Interview outline and video), 2008 De la Cruz, James (Interview outline and video), 2008](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/40df57f75b88ad92a5cc63d95e600c4f.jpg)
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- Text: ) • Time spent in transit was three months. The battle they had been sent to assist in was still on-going. (31:23) Medals and Symbols • Received a medal for the Asiatic Pacific Theater. He also received two battle-stars, one for the Admiralties, and one
![Keith III, Elvin W. (Interview outline and video), 2008 Keith III, Elvin W. (Interview outline and video), 2008](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/65ecfc5d5214cdf99d6ddf3aadfe8e5a.jpg)
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- Text: , the soldiers would be brought back into a base camp, which tended to have modern amenities, including movie theaters; Dorstewitz thought it was neat that one of the camps even had a “steakhouse” (00:13:22:00) o On two separate occasions, when the unit came back
![Dorstewitz, Peggy (Interview outline and video), 2010 Dorstewitz, Peggy (Interview outline and video), 2010](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/3b64fab5c2c59382ccace774efd51c68.jpg)
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- Text: of Vietnam o He had friends that had already been in Vietnam (01:39) o It was on the news and in the paper (01:48) He knew around the tenth grade that he wanted to join the military o His father had served in the European Theater during World War II He had
![Manthei, Stephen (Interview outline and video), 2012 Manthei, Stephen (Interview outline and video), 2012](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/711073b2c3442124548a11a9a04d03b8.jpg)
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- Text: off the train because there was going to be a four hour stop, so we all got off the train and walked into town and went to a theater. By this time we‘d picked up two white guys from Grand Rapids, so we said, ―Let‘s go kill some time in the movie
![Redwine, Gerald (Interview transcript and video), 2011 Redwine, Gerald (Interview transcript and video), 2011](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/104f0dabb40ddc8f424d3db408775d0b.jpg)
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- Text: to the theater and the movie we went to see was Born Free. The next morning we got up, they had a civilian airplane and took us to Okinawa. In Okinawa we got our shots, we gave blood, collected our uniforms there and then went to Da Nang and from Da Nang you just
![Serafino, Edward (Interview transcript and video), 2009 Serafino, Edward (Interview transcript and video), 2009](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/75f28afb70a9f50ee0b4fc5e7bf87436.jpg)
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- Text: and directed assignment to a major in-theater command. In my case the major command was the US Army Support Command Saigon (USASSUPCOM SGN) APO San Francisco 96491. My Availability Date was 4 November 1968. My Estimated Date for Change of Station Assigned
![Brodie, Craig (Interview outline and video), 2014 Brodie, Craig (Interview outline and video), 2014](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/7d67bc24aa2e4c65b2bb9e273879dee8.jpg)
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- Text: and some other men were off-duty and standing near the outdoor movie theater when they saw a Russian ship moving across the canal, something was which not allowed on Sundays (01:12:09:00) As two Navy tugs went to investigate, the men went back
![Jones, Williams (Interview outline and video), 2011 Jones, Williams (Interview outline and video), 2011](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/c6a3c0cd2d2c0c65a257f2fa093c697e.jpg)
David Christian was born in 1946 in Muskegon Heights, Michigan. After completing high school there in 194, he enlisted in the Marine Corps. After training in California, David was sent to Chu Lai, Vietnam in 1965. David's first tour was spent at Chu Lai and fixing aircraft at Marble Mountain Air Facility. After returning home and marrying his wife, David reenlisted for a second tour. David was promoted to sergeant and repaired aircraft at Chu Lai until 1970. David also worked at Iwakuni Marine Corps Base for the remaining 6 months of his second tour. David returned to the United States in 1970 where he worked at Camp Lejeune and as a Drill Instructor on Parris Island.
![Christian, David (Interview transcript and video), 2010 Christian, David (Interview transcript and video), 2010](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/e5719330e9f35af8eeabccf0b7806177.jpg)
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- Text: , insofar as the food was actually cooked up and fresh (01:03:37:00) Most of the base camps that Harlan spent time at had their own small clubs for the men to visit; the base camp at Cat Lai even had a small, open-air theater (01:03:53:00) o Harlan remembers
![Harlan, Charles (Interview outline and video), 2012 Harlan, Charles (Interview outline and video), 2012](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/4752d56e82ccd43c487835b773573735.jpg)