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- Text: ...rds end (53:15) After they flew their last mission they celebrated at the local pub (55:48) During leisure time they went to theater in nearby town (56:45) Wrote letters to his family often, and received letters often being in air force (59:10) Kept track of how many missions he had left an...
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- Text: Koshork was a mem ber of the 69th Depot Repair Sqdn, of the 30 Ist Air Depot Group assigned to the China Theater. He was based in Kunming. China after traveling across India and the Ledo-Burma Road . In 1945 he was transferred to Shanghai where he served in the mili tary police.
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- Text: ...iversity of Illinois. (01:35) o The length of time she actually spent thinking about WWII was when she would go to the movie theater and see the movie shorts since the U.S. was predominantly isolationist. (02:06) o With WWI, still fresh in many Americans’ minds the thought of going to war...
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- Text: ...ad tried to screen the men because the radar operators were given somewhat special treatment; they laid out a map of all the theaters where the operators were desperately needed and the operators listed where they wanted to go, first come, first serve (00:26:11:00) o Pahl knew that he did n...
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- Text: ...ail gunner of Elvin’s plane had survived (00:29:25) He told Rosadell that they were all set to be sent to the Pacific Theater of Operations, was glad they weren’t Elvin was awarded the Air Medal with three clusters and a Purple Heart (00:30:20) ...
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- Description: Donald McKersie is a WW II Army veteran who served in the European Theater and in Japan. He took part in the Battle of the Bulge, and talks about the disposition of prisoners by his division. After being sent to Japan, he was on furlough when the war in Japan ended.
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- Text: ...s citation was approved by 01 iried letter 330.13 Subject: Unit Citation, Headquarters United Army Air Forces luediterranean Theater of Operations United 3tate Army, APO 650, dated 22 November 1944. Whereupo~ the inclusion a Unit Citation in :iar Department General Orders becomes aut.omat L...
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- Text: ...went to high school at Muskegon High School (01:39) He remembers hearing about Pearl Harbor when he was down at the Michigan Theater (01:48) o When he came out of the movie theater everyone had the local newspaper saying that Pearl Harbor had been bombed Before that, he did not pay...
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- Text: ...es out of the ring (9:44) High school • Played some baseball o Best “sport” was marbles, though • Very involved with theater o Got the lead role both his junior and senior year Each play was 3 hours long • Didn’t go to prom • Used to have cake walks • Used to love to watc...
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- Text: ...in step with everybody else (5:45) Enlistment Electrician’s Mate, First Class (2:00) Mainly served in the European Theater, but was in on some of Africa, as well (6:30) Also made a trip to Australia (6:50) Served in the Armory at Ellis Island after Basic Training (7:40) �...
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- Description: Albert Eitel, born in Nebraska in 1926, served in the U.S. Navy from 1944 to 1946 in the Pacific theater during World War II. Albert enlisted at the age of 17. He did basic training at Great Lakes Naval Base in Illinois, and then trained on LSTs at Camp Bradford, Virginia.
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- Text: ...ith a friend, but the time went by very quickly • After all the time spent in Thailand James really missed pizza, drive-in theaters, and American women (01:14:00) Oklahoma • James had been living off base in a mobile home with other men in the military • There was not much to do in Ok...
