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• Text: ...t when they took off or landed -Post-flight and pre-flight took three hours -Spent most time on Midway sleeping -Had a movie theater, bowling alleys, and a basic TV station -There were military families on Midway -There was a high school -Servicemen played sports games against the student...

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• Text: ...) Non-commissioned Officers & Commissioned Officers at Ramey Air Force Base Pt. 1 -One man flew in the China-Burma-India Theater in WWII -One man flew in a B-17 bomber as a gunner and shot down a German Me-109 fighter plane -One man flew a P-51 fighter plane during the war -Rick was a y...

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• Text: ...He got into Cambridge quite frequently, but he got into London once. He got to a theater and saw the opening of James Bond: From Russia with Love. The English were very friendly to him and he really enjoyed his time over there. While he was over there, there was a problem with men taking wo...

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• Text: ...d once the invasion had started (01:04:11:00) o As well, the engineers had to quickly construct the pipelines out of Kuwait, theater sustainment nodes for both the Army and Marines, and the primary prisoner of war camp (01:04:25:00) o The engineers were also told to begin constructing re-de...

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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: ...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: ...Well, for the record I would like to say that in 1944 Glenn Miller performed for the troops in Plymouth at the theater and, Harry was in France, so it must have been later in ‟44, and so one of his buddies that didn‟t go over took me to this because it was for servicemen, you know. 41:1...

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• Text: ...3:43:00)  Once his tour finished in September 1972, to preclude having to go back to Fort Bragg, Kloet took an ITT (Inter-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; howev...

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• Text: ...the barracks with Kloet, if only to walk along the beach (00:11:02:00)  Kloet would go into San Antonio, which had a nice theater and several nice restaurants, although it was hot in the summer (00:11:18:00)  San Antonio was somewhat unique because there had always been Air Force base...