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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: ...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: ...I didn’t have very much money, it was just the whole thing, Amsterdam, it was the start of the music thing—I didn’t—I was just a--I just loved the music, I liked all the women in Amsterdam, I liked the drinking and all that, but to me the music was the most—the g...
![Toms, Alan (Interview transcript and video, 1 of 2), 2011 Toms, Alan (Interview transcript and video, 1 of 2), 2011](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/125eadc257caf9ab9f29c1d572a3384f.jpg)
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- Text: ...They actually required me to take four or five days off and I stay right there in base camp and listen to music, I‟d listen to music and go to the NCO club. 45:00 22 Interviewer: One of the sort of standard critiques, largely cliché, about the soldiers in Vietnam, and so fort...
![Brinn, Joseph (Interview transcript and video), 2010 Brinn, Joseph (Interview transcript and video), 2010](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/f94fb7ed75d8c69ff25eed70394df60e.jpg)
Joe Lange was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan on October 9th, 1947. After graduating high school, Lange married and briefly attended college before getting a full-time job and receiving his draft notice. After receiving his draft noticed, Lange went through basic training at Fort Knox, Kentucky and advanced training at Fort Belvoir, Virginia to be a generator mechanic. Once he completed the training at Fort Belvoir, Lange returned home before deploying to Vietnam to serve for a year in the 124th Signal Battalion of the 4th Infantry Division.
![Lange, Joesph (Interview transcript and video), 2011 Lange, Joesph (Interview transcript and video), 2011](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/7c3d4984ff65a54e4d926da1375e7487.jpg)
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- Text: ...Why don‟t you wear that with that? Straighten up a little bit. Comb that hair.‟” (00:34:33) “What kind of music were you listening to?” (00:34:35) ”Pretty much what anyone else was listening to.” (00:34:41) “Okay. This is like the rock-n-roll era.” (00:34:44) “Credence C...
![Sefton, Mary B. (Interview transcript and video), 2005 Sefton, Mary B. (Interview transcript and video), 2005](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/9b2ac3e2f58429dd65249f83f7650bc3.jpg)
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- Text: ... colleges and universities began to increase (00:41:50:00) o When Martin Luther King Jr. was shot, the Army played very soft music for three days because there was perceived to be a large amount of racial tension amongst the soldiers (00:42:06:00) o A couple of months later, Robert Kennedy ...
![Groothuis, Larry (Interview outline and video), 2011 Groothuis, Larry (Interview outline and video), 2011](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/5562568785d1bad69cb7e85003ca7ccb.jpg)
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- Text: ...months in the hospital (01:11:12:00) o Because he had been out of touch with home for so long, cultural, everything, such as music, was new to him (01:11:36:00) The adjustment of going from the front line to the “front bed” was a little much for Johnson (01:11:47:00) o At the time o...
![Johnson, Edward (Interview outline and video, 2 of 2), 2012 Johnson, Edward (Interview outline and video, 2 of 2), 2012](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/8ac02a6c1449f8e94c00629de97d7578.jpg)
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- Text: ...He wrote home around the time, comparing Christmas at home to his Christmas there. There were no lights, music or food. All they had were K-rations. He also remembers a night when it snowed so badly. They had whitewashed the tanks the night before so they could blend in with the snow, and t...
![Hinken, Morris (Interview outline and video), 2011 Hinken, Morris (Interview outline and video), 2011](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/c2874f30f4ec04415fb0a8f2bec044ea.jpg)