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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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• 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: ...d sit on- on chairs and watch the mo- the movie where when we, at our base we sat on logs, we didn't have for our movie theaters. (32:25) Interviewer: Alright so when do you actually go overseas? When I went overseas? Interviewer: When did you go, yeah? We left Alamogordo in April an...

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• Text: ...Tennessee. (27:45) Interviewer: Right. So we'd go around the capitol building, and- and you couldn't get into this theater if you was lucky you- you might get in and we’d go to the show or something but it was buy an ice-cream cone or something you know and it was mostly that ki...

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• Text: ...o, most of us volunteered to go to airborne training. There was a recruiter up there; came in and we were all sitting in the theater listening to his spiel and watching some films. And by the time he finished the film session and talking, half of the class signed up to go to airborne traini...