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- Text: ...:59:08) Disc one (1:00) Growing up in Michigan • • • • There was a lady that lived at the end of the road that gave music lessons He was interested in music and attended music lessons His father bought a general store in Morengo, MI He attended school in Morengo a...
![Jacobs, Art (Interview outline and video), 2005 Jacobs, Art (Interview outline and video), 2005](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/e6591c1de3f5b6c1ca07088f0e492532.jpg)
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- Text: ...They were non-combatants; their job was more mechanical • The USO came over to play music, but they did not like it, so they never came again (34:25) The First Night in Guam • They immediately started digging trenches for air raids and got their sleeping quarters ready • They slept in...
![Steele, George (Interview outline and video), 2007 Steele, George (Interview outline and video), 2007](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/46dcbe73717c57129920606e05707633.jpg)
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- Text: ...her and 3 sisters. (6:03) The home he lived in at the time of this interview (August 2011) Ray built himself. (7:22) He took music lessons on the banjo as a child. He and his brother would play in square dances for entertainment. (8:00) All through high school and college he and his brother...
![Richardson, Ray (Interview outline and video), 2011 Richardson, Ray (Interview outline and video), 2011](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/19ffe7306d4e9b7a528630ca52dcbce8.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: ...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)
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- Text: ...I don’t know where he got located though further on in the Pacific I guess. We had all kinds of good music. Those wonderful songs of WWII were played on the ship radio and I lay in the sun on the deck. Didn’t do much of anything for five (5) days. I got into the presidio and I think I...
![Warber, Ester (Interview transcript and video), 2004 Warber, Ester (Interview transcript and video), 2004](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/e986c4bbb4c7964761dbd9e42d9556d3.jpg)