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- Text: . INTERVIEWER: Okay. And what branch of service and what was your highest rank? I was in the Marine Corps and I became a Corporal. INTERVIEWER: Okay thank you. Where did you serve? What theater of the war? What theater? Slager, Kenneth INTERVIEWER: What
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- Text: available. The base would open things up like the movie theater because we’d get off at midnight–– especially that last one where you got 24hours to go. You don’t want to go to sleep right away because then you’re going to wake up at eight in the morning
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- Description: accepted a job renovating a prison that held American servicemen from both theaters who were being penalized for insubordination. Since most of his division rotated home shortly thereafter, he was transferred to the 720th Military Police Battalion, working
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- Text: : Alsace. Interviewer: Okay, so France. Yeah. Veteran: And I can’t…I would have to… Interviewer: Okay. But he was in the European theater. Veteran: Oh definitely. Interviewer: Okay. Veteran: I was in Washington when my one brother was going through to go
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- Text: for the movie,” and then they would get chairs out forfor us and we'd sit on- on chairs and watch the mo- the movie where when we, at our base we sat on logs, we didn't have for our movie theaters. (32:25) Interviewer: Alright so when do you actually go
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- Text: into this theater if you was lucky you- you might get in and we’d go to the show or something but it was buy an ice-cream cone or something you know and it was mostly that kind of a thing, it was no big deal. Interviewer: Alright. I shouldn't tell you
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