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- Text: from being part of a major oil company to being independent (01:20) He called the gas station his gold mine He 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
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- Text: the other guys marbles 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
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- Text: a small air field, a movie theater, and small recreation areas. Stayed in Adak to recuperate from the battle of Attu. (32:29) Troops moved to Kiska on August 15, which was the island that the Japanese were most prominent on. Were told that this would
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- Text: training for an hour or an hour and a half. The men then ate and began a scheduled training exercised afterword’s. (16:02) During down time men were able to go out to bars or use some enmities on the base such as movie theaters. (16:51) The men received
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- Text: fight in the European theater. (17:55) • From Fort Devens, Massachusetts he took a train across the country and ended up in San Francisco, California. (20:14) Trump describes his brief stay in San Francisco. From there he mentions boarding a luxury
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- Description: Ben VanSlooten served in the United States Army during WW II from May 13, 1943 to October 30, 1946 in the European Theater. VanSlooten discusses life on the home front, his time in basic training, D-Day, the Battle of the Bulge, Operation "Market
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- Text: Mississippi to practice maneuvers. (12:07) He was based at Camp Van Dorn for almost a year from 1943-1944. (12:55) While off duty, there was a theater at the base the men could visit. (13:23) He did go off bases. The men would often go to Baton Rouge or New
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- Text: theater tickets but he turned them down because of his religious upbringing. The general offered him protection from other soldiers if he was harassed about his religion. (12:49) st Every Wednesday night he attended
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- Text: he came back Would watch the newsreels at the theater, wanted to see if her husband was in them The other women were very kind; when Hallberg was in Fort Worth, his wife drove with four other women to visit (New Year’s Eve); also visited him at Fort
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- Text: . Shapin’s Military training and experience prior to entering the European war theater. (08:33:15) spent 4-5 days at Camp Upton on Long Island before receiving his shipping orders (08:56:24) put on the Long Island Railroad, a local commuter train to Penn
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- Text: . Most of the men adjusted to the military well, but there were some men who had issues adjusting. Just before they were to ship out overseas, some of the men held up a movie theater. • • • (11:38) At Fort Brady, they joined a pre-established unit