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- Text: ) Downtime in Da Nang -For the most part he would spend downtime sleeping and eating -He got a reel-reel recorder through a friend that took an R&R in Japan -Used it to record music on the radio at the USO Club -Martha Ray came in as part of the USO
![Bajema, Melvin (Interview outline and video), 2014 Bajema, Melvin (Interview outline and video), 2014](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/4a6a29d0c9ea87c1258c2f666beadf0a.jpg)
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- Text: . I absolutely don’t ever remember hearing that word, except in the “Music Man,” there is a line where the music man talks about “swell’’ and something else. But in my yearbook, that word is all over the place. You know, you’re swell this, you’re swell
![Levin, Estelle (Interview transcript and video), 2008 Levin, Estelle (Interview transcript and video), 2008](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/8d3d76a365f84fbeb5482464f02f7689.jpg)
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- Text: of card games for entertainment; also played music, lots of boom boxes; wrote letters Goldrick really encouraged his men to write so they could keep up communication with those back home They received letters regularly Their First Sergeant
![Goldrick, Martin (Interview outline and video), 2009 Goldrick, Martin (Interview outline and video), 2009](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/80e7aaef934a0c1ad8c405204429bc0b.jpg)
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- Text: , Minnesota (01:28:57) Life after the Air Force -Worked at a variety of short term jobs after he completed his time in the Air Force -Worked at Voice of Music in Benton Harbor, Michigan -Continued his work with electronics there -Got a job at Lear Siegler
![Corbett, James (Interview outline and video), 2013 Corbett, James (Interview outline and video), 2013](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/935f6b0c559edae2e887ba42e4fe74d2.jpg)
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- Text: music of a hymn “Be Still My Soul” and the most comfortable feeling imaginable fell over him o Crowell was put at ease in the midst of fire and noise o Was relaxed even though the rest of the flight was wild • During the flight, 40 mm were blowing
![Crowell, James Hugh (Interview outline and video), 2007 Crowell, James Hugh (Interview outline and video), 2007](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/f8788da4d778c78be375ac3cb9dbf71b.jpg)
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- Text: , which had hosted the 1936 Olympics. • (53:43) While in Munich, he heard beautiful string music. He and other Americans came across a church, and looked inside. They were greeted by angry stares of elderly Germans, who probably assumed they had bombed
![Lamb Jr., Lawrence (Bill) (Interview outline, video, and papers), 2008 Lamb Jr., Lawrence (Bill) (Interview outline, video, and papers), 2008](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/62fb14c995ad0e60f1cab3cce5909145.jpg)
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- Text: , there was plenty of marijuana, music, and movies -Stand downs only lasted about two or three days (00:58:25) Racial Tensions, Drug Use, and Morale Problems -There were only two black soldiers in his unit -One was in the recon platoon and he knew him from advanced
![Vanden Hout, James (Interview outline and video), 2015 Vanden Hout, James (Interview outline and video), 2015](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/7ee00b9103001e3a6b61d094818491bc.jpg)
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- Text: it to the United States and it was fitted as a hospital ship. It was kind of a nice ride. The weather was very good. I listed to radio music. By the way in Hawaii we had Bob Crosby. He finally got out of the Philippines. That was Bing Crosby’s brother and he had
![Warber, Ester (Interview transcript and video), 2004 Warber, Ester (Interview transcript and video), 2004](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/e986c4bbb4c7964761dbd9e42d9556d3.jpg)
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- Text: entertained with movies and music (00:17:17) First Vietnam Deployment-Incidents and Daily Life -Had a helicopter crash into their superstructure -Rotor fractured and exploded and wounded a number of sailors -Came to rest on their flight deck -They stripped
![Carlson, John (Interview outline and video, 3 and 4 of 4), 2011 Carlson, John (Interview outline and video, 3 and 4 of 4), 2011](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/affb9f8ba9c85f5f9aae3b6fc26e0020.jpg)
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- Text: entertained with movies and music (00:17:17) First Vietnam Deployment-Incidents and Daily Life -Had a helicopter crash into their superstructure -Rotor fractured and exploded and wounded a number of sailors -Came to rest on their flight deck -They stripped
![Carlson, John (Interview outline and video, 1 of 4), 2011 Carlson, John (Interview outline and video, 1 of 4), 2011](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/07b5c8c3738ca17090e756a6b8ab87c8.jpg)
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- Text: musicals, had dates, and went to bars. They all laughed and had a great time. (28:20) The English people there treated him and the other soldiers very well all the time. They stopped him from smoking cigars. In England people who smoked cigars were
![Zator, Thaddeus (Interview outline and video), 2010 Zator, Thaddeus (Interview outline and video), 2010](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/2b0f9159921575451d48ac80515a7888.jpg)