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  • Text: ...to drink and watch Vietnamese bands perform (01:16:30) R&R on Second Tour -Took his R&R to Taiwan -Guide took him to theaters, movies, and to live performances -Enjoyed his time in Taiwan (01:17:24) Race Relations in Second Tour -Had two or three black men in his platoon in B Compan...
Slaughter, Everett Jr (Interview outline and video), 2016

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  • Text: ...off the train because there was going to be a four hour stop, so we all got off the train and walked into town and went to a theater. By this time we‘d picked up two white guys from Grand Rapids, so we said, ―Let‘s go kill some time in the movie theater‖, so they went and g...
Redwine, Gerald (Interview transcript and video), 2011

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  • Text: ...5:00 They took us on school busses to El Toro Air Force Base. We got there in the afternoon and we all went to the theater and the movie we went to see was Born Free. The next morning we got up, they had a civilian airplane and took us to Okinawa. In Okinawa we got our shots, we gave blood,...
Serafino, Edward (Interview transcript and video), 2009

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  • Text: ...As was the common practice, the orders were general in nature and directed assignment to a major in-theater command. In my case the major command was the US Army Support Command Saigon (USASSUPCOM SGN) APO San Francisco 96491. My Availability Date was 4 November 1968. My Estimated Date for ...
Brodie, Craig (Interview outline and video), 2014

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  • Text: ...he men could unwind (01:11:34:00) o Another time, Jones and some other men were off-duty and standing near the outdoor movie theater when they saw a Russian ship moving across the canal, something was which not allowed on Sundays (01:12:09:00)     As two Navy tugs went to i...
Jones, Williams (Interview outline and video), 2011
David Christian was born in 1946 in Muskegon Heights, Michigan. After completing high school there in 194, he enlisted in the Marine Corps. After training in California, David was sent to Chu Lai, Vietnam in 1965. David's first tour was spent at Chu Lai and fixing aircraft at Marble Mountain Air Facility. After returning home and marrying his wife, David reenlisted for a second tour. David was promoted to sergeant and repaired aircraft at Chu Lai until 1970. David also worked at Iwakuni Marine Corps Base for the remaining 6 months of his second tour. David returned to the United States in 1970 where he worked at Camp Lejeune and as a Drill Instructor on Parris Island.
Christian, David (Interview transcript and video), 2010

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  • Text: ...hat Harlan spent time at had their own small clubs for the men to visit; the base camp at Cat Lai even had a small, open-air theater (01:03:53:00) o Harlan remembers that one time, the men watched Doctor Zhivago, a cold weather movie in the midst of the Vietnamese heat (01:04:02:00) The boa...
Harlan, Charles (Interview outline and video), 2012

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  • Text: ...e airstrip to attend the dedication of a building that Van Dreumel’s unit had built that served as both the unit’s movie theater and church; during the dedication ceremony, Van Dreumel managed to take a picture of the general (00:56:22:00) · Over the course of the year Van Dreumel was ...
Van Dreumel, Michael (Interview outline and video), 2012

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  • Text: ...3:43:00)  Once his tour finished in September 1972, to preclude having to go back to Fort Bragg, Kloet took an ITT (Inter-Theater Transfer) test for Germany (00:43:43:00)  After completing the test, Kloet was assigned to the G-2 section for a headquarters in Heidelberg, Germany; howev...
Kloet, Ronald (Interview outline and video, 3 of 3), 2011

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  • Text: ...amp Evans, the soldiers were able to get clean clothes, take showers, and go grab a couple of beers; there was a small movie theater on the camp and the soldiers were able to go watch movies there (00:26:11:00)  At certain times, the soldiers were able to call home if they managed to get...
Drury, Richard (Interview outline and video), 2012

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  • Text: ...e lived there, but being married, I lived off post, so I was 21 very rarely on the base camp, but they did have the usual theater, some museums, PX, of course, and commissary. We went on camp for those kinds of things, but otherwise I didn’t have, really, a whole lot to do with it. Int...
Dahlen, Richard (Interview transcript and video), 2007

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  • Text: ... to go to—there was a town there called Oceanside and then they would give us liberty on Sunday to go over. They had movie theaters and different things like that, but we weren’t old enough to go to bars or do any of that stuff yet. Interviewer: How long does the advanced infantry train...
Van Solkema, Howard (Interview transcript and video), 2008