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- Description: Ken Maatman was an Officer in the Army Signal Corps during World War II. He supervised the installation and maintenance of communications lines in the China/Burma/India theater, particularly along the Burma Road in the last two years of the war
- Text: of 1st Lt Kenneth B. Maatman for service with (he United States Army Pacific Theater, World War II and U.S. Army Reserves Bronze Star Medal Service: All Services Instituted: 1944 .' Criteria: Awarded for heroicor meritorious achievement or service
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- Text: was attacked • He got married in 1940; they had a Polish wedding that lasted for 3 days • They lived with his wife’s parents for 6 months while he was looking for a job • They liked to watch silent movies in theaters; Charlie Chaplin was everyone’s favorite
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- Text: , for 6 weeks of basic training (approx. early 1945) (13:20) He was then sent to Fort Meade, Maryland, to be sent to the European Theater(13:55) Basic training for Infantry (14:00) Was a lot different than Air Corps basic training (14:05) No choice
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- Text: • Simulated war • Weather was hot and rainy – similar to weather in Pacific Theater • Stayed from May 1941 until early-1942 o Was sent to Massachusetts • October 1941 – largest US army operation until that point o Was captured, and was a POW for a few days
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- Description: Lawrence M. Gary is a WW II Veteran who served in the United States Army in both the European and Pacific Theaters. He was assigned to F Co 341st Infantry Regiment (86th "Blackhawk" Div.), spending the majority of his military service time
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- Text: Grand Valley State University Veteran's History Project World War II – Pacific Theater Robert Scholz Total Time (01:19:57) Introduction (00:00:08) Robert was born January 16th, 1918 in Quincy, Illinois (00:00:22) His father owned a grocery store
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- Text: doing nothing From Fort Crowder, he was sent to Camp Atterbury in Indiana (43:15) After the Service – (43:18) · He was discharged from Camp Atterbury · He received the Good Conduct Medal (43:54) · He also received the American Theater Ribbon, European
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- Text: of combat in the European theater (00:10:35:00) § In fact, DeWitt and the other soldiers made it as far as Boston, Massachusetts before General Douglas McArthur decided he needed their division in the Pacific; this meant the soldiers received training
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- Text: , 1952. Ann and I were married on February 16, 1952. 11. My various Army records show that I received the 'decoration, service medals and citations" . following 2 Bronze Battle Stars for the Rhineland and Central Europe Campaigns American Theater
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- Text: (9:20) Was shipped to California to trained to be in the Pacific theater, then went to Washington to embark (10:00) Took an Army transport to Hawaii (10:20) Trained in the hills of Hawaii for the invasion of Okinawa (10:45) Sent
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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