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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
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- Description: Fred Bernhardt enlisted in the Marines at the age of 17 in early 1944. He served in the Pacific Theater of WWII as an artillery observer for naval bombardments. He also served as a guard of the atomic bomb which was dropped on Nagasaki
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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
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- Text: target and bomb that target while still keeping the bomber in formation (00:21:17:00) Later in the war, the bombing method used in the European theater of only having the bombardier on the lead bomber using the bombsight spread over to the Pacific
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- Description: still provides a unique perspective on post-WW II conflict in the Pacific Theater. This account details how tension and confusion continued well into the post-WWII years. He talks briefly about the role of the United Service Organization and his
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- Description: Raymond Frederick served in the U.S. Navy between 1944 and 1946 in the Armed Guard. He worked with the Merchant Marines in the transport of supplies throughout the Pacific Theater. He discusses what he was doing before the war, his experiences
- Text: Interview Notes (Length: 0:51:29) Raymond Frederick World War II Veteran: Pacific Theater United States Navy: 05/44 – 02/46 (00:00) Early Years: Born in Kansas during the height of “Oil Boom” Father was an oil field worker, came from a ranch
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- Description: Morris Vander Veen is a World War II veteran who served in the U.S. Marines from 1944 to 1946. In this account he discusses his pre-enlistment, enlistment and training in the U.S. and the Pacific. Serving his active duty in the Pacific Theater
- Text: (28:14) o Left the Solomon Islands on March 15th, 1944 [1945] bound for Okinawa. Their convoy met up at a little atoll called Ulithi Atoll, Yap, Micronesia. Describes how it was the largest convoy invasion fleet in the Pacific Theater of WWII
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- Text: (9:20) Was shipped to California to trained to be in the Pacific theater, then went to Washington to embark (10:00) Took an Army transport to Hawaii (10:20) Trained in the hills of Hawaii for the invasion of Okinawa (10:45) Sent
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- Text: ) During leisure time they went to theater in nearby town (56:45) Wrote letters to his family often, and received letters often being in air force (59:10) Kept track of how many missions he had left and looked forward to it (1:00:17) Never knew if next
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- Text: WWII was when she would go to the movie theater and see the movie shorts since the U.S. was predominantly isolationist. (02:06) o With WWI, still fresh in many Americans’ minds the thought of going to war the prevalent attitude of resisting going to war
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- Text: and ground crew training at Chanute Field. IL and Kelly Field. TX . Koshork was a mem ber of the 69th Depot Repair Sqdn, of the 30 Ist Air Depot Group assigned to the China Theater. He was based in Kunming. China after traveling across India and the Ledo