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- Text: ...tayed in a cove for 1 week while waiting for submarines to pass. During this week, the men played many cards and listened to music. (27:17) The ship landed in Kodiak Bay in Alaska in early summer 1942. (28:08) After landing, the men traveled up the coast to a field where they sent up camp. ...
![McNamara, Martin (Interview outline and video), 2008 McNamara, Martin (Interview outline and video), 2008](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/29fc6655d4b24d1a4cf0bba5a6d10d98.jpg)
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- Text: ...hen he returned home he was allowed to bring a little less than 400 pounds of souvenirs -He had bought a high end stereo and music, so he brought that home with him (00:19:52) Arrival in Vietnam -His first thought upon arriving in Vietnam was that it was warm -He met a soldier from Battle C...
![Jerzyk, Benjamin (Interview outline and video), 2014 Jerzyk, Benjamin (Interview outline and video), 2014](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/c8d7bc1e9b559642765329dbbca36e14.jpg)
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- Text: ... the enemy from their positions so they would scramble about and be easy targets • The Chinese would play popular American music to try to make the troops homesick and they would also announce propaganda to try to make them surrender (53:40) Supplies • Someone would stand guard while ot...
![Pfeiffer, Dan (Interview outline and video), 2007 Pfeiffer, Dan (Interview outline and video), 2007](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/2ae5b3bd41609ec9c409fe473f3d31b6.jpg)
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- Text: ... P.A. operator He was given 2 turntables a generator and a jeep to go around to various platoons in the Philippines and play music for them (33:43) Soon after the end of the war he had been sent to Korea (October of 1945) (34:44) This had been immediately after the Okinawa Typhoon in Octobe...
![Van Oss, Julius (Interview outline and video), 2011 Van Oss, Julius (Interview outline and video), 2011](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/e667ee51b081a1b35dfe132634e9e3e6.jpg)
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- Text: ...�sand bags on the outside of the hole. • Slept in the barn or the house on the floor and listened to music on a radio • Could hear ‘Big Bertha’ shells every night going off toward the beach front toward Ally ships • June 1‐Cassino ha...
![Kriegbaum, Robert (Interview outline and video), 2007 Kriegbaum, Robert (Interview outline and video), 2007](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/fc559e70a3e142f7821745739a9678be.jpg)
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- Text: ...ed Bayreuth, Germany, the town where the famous German composer Richard Wagner had died, and the men ended up staying in the music hall that Wagner had built (01:44:56:00) The first night the men billeted in the music hall, Van Luyn was outside when a German plane began strafin...
![Van Luyn, William (Interview outline and video, 1 of 2), 2011 Van Luyn, William (Interview outline and video, 1 of 2), 2011](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/898e88600db780511f057cebb6df1412.jpg)
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- Text: ...-Troops had been deployed out of Fort Knox to deal with riots in the cities -He stayed in the day room and played music to pass the time -Majority of black soldiers and even some white soldiers didn’t want to go to the cities -Discharged in August 1968 -Army encouraged him to leave (01:05...
![Billingslea, Thornell (Interview outline and video), 2016 Billingslea, Thornell (Interview outline and video), 2016](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/0d36f49b5335dc44c344e1ce201a90b6.jpg)
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- Text: ...He sometimes took naps there as well. They also took the underground subway to Piccadilly Circus. There he saw 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 stopp...
![Zator, Thaddeus (Interview outline and video), 2010 Zator, Thaddeus (Interview outline and video), 2010](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/2b0f9159921575451d48ac80515a7888.jpg)
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- Text: ... the far southwest corner of the Sixth Circuit, in Memphis, Tennessee, there is the black community that gave birth to blues music and rhythm and blues. and inspired a poor white in the housing projects, Elvis Presley. The boundaries of the 12 judicial circuits of the United States Court of...
![Miles, Wendell A. (Interview outline, video, and papers), 2007 Miles, Wendell A. (Interview outline, video, and papers), 2007](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/7389406afcf4e25836ef6915219f9e05.jpg)
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- Text: ...e words down by how they sounded and Earl did the same thing. • Earl graduated from the 8th grade with one extra credit in Music. • Earl went to high school between Garfield and Damascus. • (13:47) His high school had a basketball team but no football team. He was told he should play ...
![Mather, Earl (Interview outline and video), 2008 Mather, Earl (Interview outline and video), 2008](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/c24c29ea3dc5c9a2f2c01c89f20a35c6.jpg)
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- Text: ...f Lofer, near Salzburg -Saw the reopening of Mozart's house and theater -Watched the first performance of Mozart's music since the Nazi occupation -One man in his unit acted as the manager for the performance -Allowed Allan and his friends to watch the performance from box seats (...
![Ostar, Allan W (Interview outline and video), 2016 Ostar, Allan W (Interview outline and video), 2016](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/848138b744ec3ee00f0cb33b6a7fa7a1.jpg)