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- Text: Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Art Jacobs Disc one: (1:06:00) Disc two: (00:59:08) Disc one (1:00) Growing up in Michigan • • • • There was a lady that lived at the end of the road that gave music lessons He was interested
![Jacobs, Art (Interview outline and video), 2005 Jacobs, Art (Interview outline and video), 2005](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/e6591c1de3f5b6c1ca07088f0e492532.jpg)
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- Text: • Many of the men he was with wanted to attack the Russians when they were done in the Pacific • The Marines were in Guam to support the Navy. They were non-combatants; their job was more mechanical • The USO came over to play music, but they did not like
![Steele, George (Interview outline and video), 2007 Steele, George (Interview outline and video), 2007](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/46dcbe73717c57129920606e05707633.jpg)
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- Text: Home for Veterans where he’s been for 2 months. He briefly discussed his musical history in the service and remembers playing at the Hoedown in Detroit, MI. Finally, he wraps up his discussion by stressing that being in a wheelchair should never stop
![Weaver, Dale A. (Interview outline and video), 2007 Weaver, Dale A. (Interview outline and video), 2007](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/111810ad9ce6ec5649cea231ed5cdff9.jpg)
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- Text: . He graduated in 1942. (5:20) He has 1 brother and 3 sisters. (6:03) The home he lived in at the time of this interview (August 2011) Ray built himself. (7:22) He took music lessons on the banjo as a child. He and his brother would play in square
![Richardson, Ray (Interview outline and video), 2011 Richardson, Ray (Interview outline and video), 2011](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/19ffe7306d4e9b7a528630ca52dcbce8.jpg)
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- Text: , Belgium, Luxembourg, nothing with Italy; all of mainland Europe. o Responsibilities & Experiences Monitored stations; had a lot of sensitivities in Europe. One time had a woman that commented on the radio not having good Rock N’ Roll music in Austria
![Heintzelman, William L. (Interview outline and video), 2008 Heintzelman, William L. (Interview outline and video), 2008](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/ff52b58eecaa9685f9d352dddbf64426.jpg)
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- Text: ) Picked up a piano from a music store in Toulon, France and brought it on deck (01:00:44) Traveled to Athens one time and got to see the Acropolis (01:01:22) Traveled primarily between Italy and France – never traveled to Egypt (01:02:03) When on the ship
![Trovato, Anthony (Interview outline and video), 2012 Trovato, Anthony (Interview outline and video), 2012](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/8d14426d335414c3e13320fbd18ac38f.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: 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)