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• Description: ...es like Louis Armstrong due to his work helping the USO entertain servicemembers and enjoyed the time he spent living in the theater. Afterwards Low was required to requalify at the rifle range, and shot at an expert level, gaining him a position on a Marine team that was sent to shoot at a...
• Text: No, I was staying right at the theater. They had rooms at the theater, they had a big office and a lounge right there in the theater. So all I did was show a movie once every four days. (28:26) Interviewer: “Alright.

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• Text: ...What were your immediate plans and then how did those plans get interfered?” (11:15) Well I wanted to keep involved with theater studies, especially theater performance, so I chose to stay at the University of Santa Clara. That’s where I earned my bachelor’s and decided to g...

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• Text: ...I was in the Marine Corps and I became a Corporal. INTERVIEWER: Okay thank you. Where did you serve? What theater of the war? What theater? Slager, Kenneth INTERVIEWER: What theater. Pacific. INTERVIEWER: Pacific, okay. Island hopping. INTERVIEWER: Well if you’re born ...

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• Text: What we did was–– they would open up the theater [so] we could go watch movies. The bowling alley was open and there was a wreck hall–– all sorts of things like that on base that we could do. Interviewer: “Was this an all American base?”

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• Text: ...Interviewer: “Okay, alright and did the military provide anything to entertain you with, I mean were there movie theaters on bases that you could go to or were you just in these small groups?” Leet, James No, we didn’t have that privilege that I recall, just the mess hall and everyb...

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• Text: ...their own, if not in town because we were close to the Taichung city so, and we had all the comforts of home. We had a movie theater, and we had BX, PX, BX, we had a lot of the things that made life- They were still building it as I left they were still building a base pool, swimming pool, ...

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• Text: ...hings like that, which gives you rather a warped sense of what goes on. Interviewer: So, you had like newsreels at the movie theater? That kind of thing? Veteran: Yes. Right. Newsreels and newspapers and so forth. Interviewer: Okay. So, you had some awareness of it. Okay, now, you were stil...

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• Description: ...Eventually, Christl accepted a job renovating a prison that held American servicemen from both theaters who were being penalized for insubordination. Since most of his division rotated home shortly thereafter, he was transferred to the 720th Military Police Battalion, working in a detachmen...

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• Text: ...Veteran: And I can’t…I would have to… Interviewer: Okay. But he was in the European theater. Veteran: Oh definitely. Interviewer: Okay. Veteran: I was in Washington when my one brother was going through to go overseas. So, that was nice. We met: he with a buddy and me with a friend, a...

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• Text: ...So, we'd kind of depend on those to get up to the flight line to go to work and everything but we had movie theater, they had a lot of amenities there that you know most people don't have. (19:23) Interviewer: Yeah, I mean were the barracks air conditioned or? No. Interviewer: Oka...

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• Text: ...Interviewer: “Were you doing that when Pearl Harbor happened?” I was coming out of Fox Theater [in] downtown Detroit and they were selling extras: “Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.” So that was–– I knew I would eventually be on. By the way, I was very proud to serve my country–�...

Chester Johnson was born in South Haven, Michigan, in 1949. He attended high school in Benton Harbor and graduated in 1967. Chester was drafted into the Army in January 1969. He completed basic training at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. He did his advanced individual training at Fort McClellan, Alabama. Chester then went to non-commissioned officer (NCO) school at Fort Benning, Georgia. He was sent to Vietnam in early 1970, where he was assigned to B company, 1st battalion, 196th regiment of the light infantry brigade. During his time in Vietnam, Chester was involved in various skirmishes. He was part of a group that was sent into Laos on a patrol mission. He went on R and R in Australia in November 1970. He returned home from Vietnam in December 1970. Chester is currently involved with a veterans’ group in Battle Creek, Michigan.