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  • Text: on leave -Found it to be a pretty city -Had never seen the Gulf of Mexico before -New experience being in the South -Remembers it was 75 degrees on Christmas Day 1966 -Going into the city got boring after a while -There was a movie theater, a USO shop
Crans, Robert K (Interview outline and video), 2015

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  • Text: Vietnamese bands perform (01:16:30) R&R on Second Tour -Took his R&R to Taiwan -Guide took him to theaters, movies, and to live performances -Enjoyed his time in Taiwan (01:17:24) Race Relations in Second Tour -Had two or three black men in his platoon in B
Slaughter, Everett Jr (Interview outline and video), 2016

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  • Text: off the train because there was going to be a four hour stop, so we all got off the train and walked into town and went to a theater. By this time we‘d picked up two white guys from Grand Rapids, so we said, ―Let‘s go kill some time in the movie
Redwine, Gerald (Interview transcript and video), 2011

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  • Text: to the theater and the movie we went to see was Born Free. The next morning we got up, they had a civilian airplane and took us to Okinawa. In Okinawa we got our shots, we gave blood, collected our uniforms there and then went to Da Nang and from Da Nang you just
Serafino, Edward (Interview transcript and video), 2009

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  • Text: and directed assignment to a major in-theater command. In my case the major command was the US Army Support Command Saigon (USASSUPCOM SGN) APO San Francisco 96491. My Availability Date was 4 November 1968. My Estimated Date for Change of Station Assigned
Brodie, Craig (Interview outline and video), 2014

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  • Text: and some other men were off-duty and standing near the outdoor movie theater when they saw a Russian ship moving across the canal, something was which not allowed on Sundays (01:12:09:00)     As two Navy tugs went to investigate, the men went back
Jones, Williams (Interview outline and video), 2011
David Christian was born in 1946 in Muskegon Heights, Michigan. After completing high school there in 194, he enlisted in the Marine Corps. After training in California, David was sent to Chu Lai, Vietnam in 1965. David's first tour was spent at Chu Lai and fixing aircraft at Marble Mountain Air Facility. After returning home and marrying his wife, David reenlisted for a second tour. David was promoted to sergeant and repaired aircraft at Chu Lai until 1970. David also worked at Iwakuni Marine Corps Base for the remaining 6 months of his second tour. David returned to the United States in 1970 where he worked at Camp Lejeune and as a Drill Instructor on Parris Island.
Christian, David (Interview transcript and video), 2010

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  • Text: , insofar as the food was actually cooked up and fresh (01:03:37:00) Most of the base camps that Harlan spent time at had their own small clubs for the men to visit; the base camp at Cat Lai even had a small, open-air theater (01:03:53:00) o Harlan remembers
Harlan, Charles (Interview outline and video), 2012

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  • Text: the unit’s movie theater and church; during the dedication ceremony, Van Dreumel managed to take a picture of the general (00:56:22:00) · Over the course of the year Van Dreumel was in Vietnam, soldiers were rotating both in and out of the country (00:57:11
Van Dreumel, Michael (Interview outline and video), 2012

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  • Text: -Theater Transfer) test for Germany (00:43:43:00)  After completing the test, Kloet was assigned to the G-2 section for a headquarters in Heidelberg, Germany; however, because his security clearance from 1966 had expired, Kloet needed to get it updated (00
Kloet, Ronald (Interview outline and video, 3 of 3), 2011

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  • Text: clean clothes, take showers, and go grab a couple of beers; there was a small movie theater on the camp and the soldiers were able to go watch movies there (00:26:11:00)  At certain times, the soldiers were able to call home if they managed to get
Drury, Richard (Interview outline and video), 2012

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  • Text: . Those that lived on base lived there, but being married, I lived off post, so I was 21 very rarely on the base camp, but they did have the usual theater, some museums, PX, of course, and commissary. We went on camp for those kinds of things
Dahlen, Richard (Interview transcript and video), 2007