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• Text: fight in the European theater. (17:55) • From Fort Devens, Massachusetts he took a train across the country and ended up in San Francisco, California. (20:14) Trump describes his brief stay in San Francisco. From there he mentions boarding a luxury

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• Text: , at a theater where he decided to stay for the movie. (00:28:30) France -Travelled to France in July. D+39 -Crossed the channel on the SS Invicta. -Climbed down rope nets to water and waded ashore. -German prisoners of war were being held on shore. -Landed

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• Text: ) Deployment to Europe -In November 1944, some of the infantry regiments were selected to deploy to the European Theater -The 242nd Infantry Regiment was one of them -Went to New York City and boarded a troopship -Converted freighter that was capable of holding

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• Description: Ben VanSlooten served in the United States Army during WW II from May 13, 1943 to October 30, 1946 in the European Theater. VanSlooten discusses life on the home front, his time in basic training, D-Day, the Battle of the Bulge, Operation "Market

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• Text: Mississippi to practice maneuvers. (12:07) He was based at Camp Van Dorn for almost a year from 1943-1944. (12:55) While off duty, there was a theater at the base the men could visit. (13:23) He did go off bases. The men would often go to Baton Rouge or New

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• Text: theater tickets but he turned them down because of his religious upbringing. The general offered him protection from other soldiers if he was harassed about his religion. (12:49) st                Every Wednesday night he attended

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• Text: he came back Would watch the newsreels at the theater, wanted to see if her husband was in them The other women were very kind; when Hallberg was in Fort Worth, his wife drove with four other women to visit (New Year’s Eve); also visited him at Fort

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• Text: . Shapin’s Military training and experience prior to entering the European war theater. (08:33:15) spent 4-5 days at Camp Upton on Long Island before receiving his shipping orders (08:56:24) put on the Long Island Railroad, a local commuter train to Penn

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• Text: . Most of the men adjusted to the military well, but there were some men who had issues adjusting. Just before they were to ship out overseas, some of the men held up a movie theater. • • • (11:38) At Fort Brady, they joined a pre-established unit

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• Text: -With the war over in the Pacific Theater those plans were canceled -After Japan's surrender the unit was broken up -Men were being sent home on the point system -Points awarded based on length of service, rank, dependents, and combat seen -He had spent 23

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• Text: in Japanese and knew "a bit of Chinese as well" after a week Merrill contacted Lieutenant General Joseph Stillwell, the commander of the Pacific theater; the War department code word for the men was "Galahad Force" Stillwell sent McLogan's battalion