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- Text: ...visiting, we took pictures, we went to the Philadelphia mint and watched them mint coins there, we went to various parks and theaters with some friends of Fred. 6:33 Their daughter called up a couple of girl friends and we went out with them a couple of nights to the theater and Co...
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- Text: ...ent to Fort Meade, Maryland for assignment for overseas and at that time I was informed that I would be sent to the European theater. It actually wasn’t the European theater; it was the African theater at that time. 28:08 Interviewer: “When you heard this, what was you...
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- Text: Well, the only fun we had was—we had our own gym, you know, and a bowling alley, and a theater, and stuff like that, on the base, and the army PX‟s, you know, but after that it was Hawaii, going to Honolulu, and you were pretty well restricted on a lot of stuff too, you know.
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- Text: ...icersbuy their own uniforms- howeverthey do receive a cash uniform allowance. A day or two before gmduation we assembledin a theater building to choosewhere or be told where we were going to be assigned as officers. On a big board in front contained where we could be assigned. The three of ...
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- Text: ...James Smither: Right, cause you’re not right in town. Dorothy Folkema: No. James Smither: Right where the theaters were. Dorothy Folkema: Occasionally, now once a month, there was a church in Godwin Heights that 30:00 had a dinner, and the girls I worked with would give me a dime for gas...
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- Text: ...g way; General Douglas MacArthur needed experienced soldiers to take part in the invasion of Japan (00:50:05:00) The Pacific Theater (00:50:47:00) Once Van Luyn’s regiment arrived in the Pacific, they sailed to Manila Bay (00:50:47:00) In order to get to the Pacific, the regiment ...
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- Text: ... busy at the time (00:16:12:00) All the soldiers in Clark’s group were sure that they would be in Africa or some other theater within two weeks (00:16:24:00) o On the aptitude part of his paperwork, it said that Clark had some experience work in laboratories, so the Army sent him to w...
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- Text: ...Left Wilding, and moved to Redl, Austria-We collect ourselves after the flood-a night in the theater. Left Redl, and arrived in Oberholswang, Germany-The Field Artillery helps us find billets-The Gesthaus wasn't big, but it was dry. Left Oberholswang, and arrived in Kricheiselfing, Ger...
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- Text: ...e us fold up cots and told us to stretch them across the seats and there was no way in the world, if you have ever been in a theater, you can stretch a folding cot across the seats and sleep, so we all slept sitting up with our coats and clothes on, that’s the way we stayed for the week o...
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- Text: ...You guys, I’ll tell you about Madison Square Garden, when I was a kid we would go to the theater and the RKO news, they would show the American Bund, the Nazi Bund, would fill Madison Square Garden, so we had a lot of sabotage you never heard about. 18:12 I guarantee my hand grenades-- we...
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- Text: ... up there on 45th and Central, Dorothy Lamour and Hedy Lamarr was two white girls in the movies and they use to come to them theaters regular. I stayed in this little town they called Wilmington, we built tents down there and I stayed down there a year and I’d drive a truck hauling differ...
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- Description: ...Once finished with training at Fort Wheeler, Georgia, Morrin deployed to the European theater, remaining until after the end of the war, including helping with security during the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal. After returning home, Morrin initially got out of active duty but re-enlisted af...