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- Text: him at the time (00:16:28) They played all kinds of music: classical, dance, swing and military marches (00:17:10) Jack remembers when the Germans surrendered in 1945 while he was at Newport News and he describes it as a thrilling experience (00:19
![McKindley, Jack (Interview outline and video), 2014 McKindley, Jack (Interview outline and video), 2014](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/78fd9314cf47f90f06fb841e85bd25cc.jpg)
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- Text: announcements, and play music -Did that duty until he was discharged -Enjoyed that duty -He would take requests for music and would play a wide variety of music -Fort Meade was twenty five miles from Baltimore so he pretty much stayed on base (00:22:48
![Slager, Ralph (Interview outline and video), 2015 Slager, Ralph (Interview outline and video), 2015](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/e12fe26d95a109438d5499362288ec74.jpg)
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- Text: ) play music for them in hotels -While in Marburg he got treated to music with dinner -Went to nightclubs and beer halls -Went to dances with German girls -Didn't have a lot of downtime while he was in show business -Spent all day preparing for shows
![Hopkins, Gerald (Interview outline and video), 2015 Hopkins, Gerald (Interview outline and video), 2015](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/435026884709aabf0ca6d4fbd554a711.jpg)
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- Text: • August was sent to Camp Buckner, North Carolina • He played big band music for the officers until very late at night with no extra pay • Most of the officers did not treat him well while he was in the service • August received 20 days leave when his
![Katsma, August (Interview outline and video), 2008 Katsma, August (Interview outline and video), 2008](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/512bcfdb21c67d8fd8810c0d1c8c6323.jpg)
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- Text: -Moved to Villa Park, Illinois in 1929 -Father worked for Lorenz Publishing -Publishing sheet music for churches and schools -Had steady work during the Great Depression, but had his hours cut -Worked a side job selling AAA Insurance door to door -After
![Lehmann, Maurice (Interview outline and video), 2015 Lehmann, Maurice (Interview outline and video), 2015](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/6e3671ddf0ea0210c64590964b85e320.jpg)
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- Text: and the full year going to school. (43:25) o While doing this, he describes his extracurricular activities. (44:13) o Graduated from Union College in 1951 and afterwards got a job working with a denominational conference in a musical capacity. (44:48) o Life
![Penno, Paul (Interview outline and video), 2007 Penno, Paul (Interview outline and video), 2007](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/026f25b085b154332521139f2a9d12df.jpg)
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- Text: the voyage. (25:40) There were multiple ships traveling with Martin’s but not very close together. (26:25) Ship stayed 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
![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: 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
![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: cornered into the barn. Built up 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
![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: not do much shoot; mostly, they were shot at by the enemy (01:44:46:00) o At one point, Van Luyn’s unit was stationed Bayreuth, Germany, the town where the famous German composer Richard Wagner had died, and the men ended up staying in the music hall
![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: 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 stopped him from smoking cigars. In England people who smoked cigars were
![Zator, Thaddeus (Interview outline and video), 2010 Zator, Thaddeus (Interview outline and video), 2010](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/2b0f9159921575451d48ac80515a7888.jpg)