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- Text: ) Current News Before the Draft • • George had been in the theater when he heard the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor; but he was not worried about it at the time George had not ever expected to be drafted when he was younger (3:15) His Father
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- Text: in 1946 when the Philippines gained their independence. -General McArthur was within viewing distance nearby. -A local movie theater was intact, so they went to the movies. -Merchant Marines are strict with a one year enlistment. -However because
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- Text: -Lasted six weeks -Doesn't remember Victory in Europe Day (May 8, 1945) -Not allowed to go into Chicago (00:14:26) Deployment to the Pacific Theater -Came home for a short leave after basic training -Took a train to Portland, Oregon and boarded a transport
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- Text: OLllUON, 0 USNTC SCHOOL lIT..:1S 14 : 520027 Sot. REMARKS j,~-.';"""" asiatic pacific 8 stars JJI'JERICill'{ THEATER PHILIPPINE 1 STAR LIE liiiEDP.L - PJillIO sen. 16 VrF'.£KS PP.EDIDEI'Tl'If:..1 UNIT CITATION 36. NAME. AND ADDRESS OF L.AST
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- Text: forget when the ship departed from San Francisco bound for Hawaii -Believed that he would be one of the casualties of the Pacific Theater -Loved being in the open ocean -Remembers 20 foot swells -When the ship dropped it felt like being weightless -When
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- Text: the local people would get ahold of them. If they were kinda inebriated and so on and so forth, so, that’s about it. So then after, so you make two trips across the Atlantic, and at that point, your ship is transferred over to Pacific theater. And when
