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• Description: ... be the youngest officer on the ship at age 19. After a few years on a few different ships, Paul would arrive to the Eastern theater during the Korean War as he was primarily based out of Yokusuka Japan in late 1950. He later served assignments at the Pentagon and aboard the carrier USS Ess...
• Text: ...anted to be stationed at a shipyard in Boston (00:28:49) Korean War & Beyond (00:31:06)  Paul arrived to the Eastern theater during the Korean War the day the United States invaded Inchon, South Korea on September 15th, 1950 (00:31:06)  He was primarily based out of Yokusuka, Jap...

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• Text: ...d in Basic Training (11:40) • Was in a supply unit, so was never without supplies (12:00) • Had bowling alleys and movie theaters to keep them entertained (12:50) • Had a chance while in Germany to go to Augsburg, and had a month of convalescent leave (14:00) • Visited an exchange s...

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• Text: ...ith a friend, but the time went by very quickly • After all the time spent in Thailand James really missed pizza, drive-in theaters, and American women (01:14:00) Oklahoma • James had been living off base in a mobile home with other men in the military • There was not much to do in Ok...

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• Text: ... they had been sent to assist in was still on-going. (31:23) Medals and Symbols • Received a medal for the Asiatic Pacific Theater. He also received two battle-stars, one for the Admiralties, and one for Okinawa. He also received a victory medal and a Good Conduct medal. (31:53) • The s...

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• Text: ...0) o Eventually, the soldiers would be brought back into a base camp, which tended to have modern amenities, including movie theaters; Dorstewitz thought it was neat that one of the camps even had a “steakhouse” (00:13:22:00) o On two separate occasions, when the unit came back into a b...

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• Text: ...the paper (01:48) He knew around the tenth grade that he wanted to join the military o His father had served in the European Theater during World War II He had a love for horses (02:28) o He wanted to get hired at the General Motors plant He got hired at General Motors just out of high scho...

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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 theater‖, so they went and g...

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• Text: ...5:00 They took us on school busses to El Toro Air Force Base. We got there in the afternoon and we all went 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,...

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• Text: ...As was the common practice, the orders were general in nature 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 ...

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• Text: ...he men could unwind (01:11:34:00) o Another time, Jones 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 i...

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.

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• Text: ...hat 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 that one time, the men watched Doctor Zhivago, a cold weather movie in the midst of the Vietnamese heat (01:04:02:00) The boa...