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- Text: .... every month there was a USO show. (35:47) Most shows had 5-7 people in the shows. (36:16) The shows varied in content from music, to sports, to celebrity appearances. (36:38) He saw 9 shows at Binh Thuy Air Base. (30:03) He served in country for approx. 1 year. (1969-1970) (39:13) End of...
![Broek, Douglas (Interview outline and video), 2011 Broek, Douglas (Interview outline and video), 2011](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/f47b4fb27fc204d1cfd802ea4435a138.jpg)
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- Text: ...icycles (often saw peddlers use these), motorbikes, or German vehicles before this Saw the Empire State Building, the Music Hall, etc. The half-brother gave Meiers’s father money and all the children new clothes His father was able to convert a German soldier’s uniform into a su...
![Meiers, Paul (Interview outline and video), 2010 Meiers, Paul (Interview outline and video), 2010](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/eff3715ccf4bbff72fde1869dfe06ca1.jpg)
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- Text: ...It isn't any good that way. Love, StanN -6-9-45 ..... The tent is vacant and there's some siteet music coming from far down the way and it makes it easier to write a nice letter to you. Tonight I listened to Hit Parade and heard -Laura N... that piece I love. It's a haunting ...
![Kirby, Marthajane (Interview transcript and video), 2008 Kirby, Marthajane (Interview transcript and video), 2008](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/ba8ce7d8bbc356a6df340cba1d81784f.jpg)
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- Text: ... the enemy from their positions so they would scramble about and be easy targets • The Chinese would play popular American music to try to make the troops homesick and they would also announce propaganda to try to make them surrender (53:40) Supplies • Someone would stand guard while ot...
![Pfeiffer, Dan (Interview outline and video), 2007 Pfeiffer, Dan (Interview outline and video), 2007](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/2ae5b3bd41609ec9c409fe473f3d31b6.jpg)
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- Text: ...in Toulon, France (59:54) o It was against the law (01:00:09) o The museum was abandoned (01:00:17) Picked up a piano from a music store in Toulon, France and brought it on deck (01:00:44) Traveled to Athens one time and got to see the Acropolis (01:01:22) Traveled primarily between Italy a...
![Trovato, Anthony (Interview outline and video), 2012 Trovato, Anthony (Interview outline and video), 2012](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/8d14426d335414c3e13320fbd18ac38f.jpg)
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- Text: ... P.A. operator He was given 2 turntables a generator and a jeep to go around to various platoons in the Philippines and play music for them (33:43) Soon after the end of the war he had been sent to Korea (October of 1945) (34:44) This had been immediately after the Okinawa Typhoon in Octobe...
![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: ...�sand bags on the outside of the hole. • Slept in the barn or the house on the floor and listened to music on a radio • Could hear ‘Big Bertha’ shells every night going off toward the beach front toward Ally ships • June 1‐Cassino ha...
![Kriegbaum, Robert (Interview outline and video), 2007 Kriegbaum, Robert (Interview outline and video), 2007](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/fc559e70a3e142f7821745739a9678be.jpg)
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- Text: ...ed Bayreuth, Germany, the town where the famous German composer Richard Wagner had died, and the men ended up staying in the music hall that Wagner had built (01:44:56:00) The first night the men billeted in the music hall, Van Luyn was outside when a German plane began strafin...
![Van Luyn, William (Interview outline and video, 1 of 2), 2011 Van Luyn, William (Interview outline and video, 1 of 2), 2011](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/898e88600db780511f057cebb6df1412.jpg)
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- Text: ...(laughter) Now that was another word I saw yesterday. I absolutely don’t ever remember hearing that word, except in the “Music Man,” there is a line where the music man talks about “swell’’ and something else. But in my yearbook, that word is all over the place. You kno...
![Levin, Estelle (Interview transcript and video), 2008 Levin, Estelle (Interview transcript and video), 2008](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/8d3d76a365f84fbeb5482464f02f7689.jpg)
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- Text: ...r or not he received it Entertainment and Morale (00:36:48) Mainly played lots of card games for entertainment; also played music, lots of boom boxes; wrote letters Goldrick really encouraged his men to write so they could keep up communication with those back home They received...
![Goldrick, Martin (Interview outline and video), 2009 Goldrick, Martin (Interview outline and video), 2009](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/80e7aaef934a0c1ad8c405204429bc0b.jpg)
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- Text: ...after the Air Force -Worked at a variety of short term jobs after he completed his time in the Air Force -Worked at Voice of Music in Benton Harbor, Michigan -Continued his work with electronics there -Got a job at Lear Siegler Aerospace Research Center in Grand Rapids, Michigan -Worked the...
![Corbett, James (Interview outline and video), 2013 Corbett, James (Interview outline and video), 2013](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/935f6b0c559edae2e887ba42e4fe74d2.jpg)
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- Text: ...gainst the gunner shoulder straps as if a strait jacket but he could do anything about it; couldn’t stop self o Then heard music of a hymn “Be Still My Soul” and the most comfortable feeling imaginable fell over him o Crowell was put at ease in the midst of fire and noise o Was relaxe...
![Crowell, James Hugh (Interview outline and video), 2007 Crowell, James Hugh (Interview outline and video), 2007](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/f8788da4d778c78be375ac3cb9dbf71b.jpg)