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- Text: and asked him to build a theater • The theater took 4 months to build and then Kenneth was rewarded with a week of R & R in Japan (15:30) Living in Korea • Kenneth was made corporal when he got back from Japan and continued working on new buildings • He
![Ball, Kenneth (Interview outline and video), 2008 Ball, Kenneth (Interview outline and video), 2008](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/b20af89654a26c51e35e652608ef7a6a.jpg)
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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
![Maatman, Kenneth (Interview outline, video, and papers), 2004 Maatman, Kenneth (Interview outline, video, and papers), 2004](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/ed69e28efa630a4942bc30434adbfbbe.jpg)
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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
![Burzynski, Thadius (Interview outline and video), 2007 Burzynski, Thadius (Interview outline and video), 2007](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/d9bb3b487e9b7eb5aebaff9484cb9f98.jpg)
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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
![Van Oss, Julius (Interview outline and video), 2011 Van Oss, Julius (Interview outline and video), 2011](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/e667ee51b081a1b35dfe132634e9e3e6.jpg)
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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
![Devries, Milton H. (Interview outline and video), 2007 Devries, Milton H. (Interview outline and video), 2007](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/023b2b2b57553b4fa412e0b6e07ac5d8.jpg)
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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
![Gary, Lawrence M. (Interview outline and video), 2007 Gary, Lawrence M. (Interview outline and video), 2007](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/61a92d967ef25ef6f65c0c7637fb4e65.jpg)
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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
![Scholz, Robert (Interview outline and video), 2014 Scholz, Robert (Interview outline and video), 2014](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/4a87e701f50fe75fc743bcf0d84c73bb.jpg)
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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
![Beimers, Richard (Interview outline and video), 2004 Beimers, Richard (Interview outline and video), 2004](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/a823f6b6db6abbb45716fe6f03e3fe63.jpg)
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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
![DeWitt, Arthur (Interview outline and video), 2008 DeWitt, Arthur (Interview outline and video), 2008](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/a3d187dac404755081bc6c7113f0e059.jpg)
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- Text: food (11:15) • Had really bad food 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
![Austhof, Jack (Interview outline and video), 2004 Austhof, Jack (Interview outline and video), 2004](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/404dfab82d7c06c655cd4cfceae8a6ef.jpg)
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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
![Dilley, Alva Newton (Interview outline, video, and papers, 2 of 2), 2007 Dilley, Alva Newton (Interview outline, video, and papers, 2 of 2), 2007](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/250250e095c89addcb791c52a0c0e644.jpg)