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- Text: or other defenses -Thought they were going to Alaska until heard Hawaiian music on the radio -Slept on the deck of the ship -Sailed over on a Victory Ship -Tightly packed -Used saltwater for showers, but had freshwater for drinking -Stopped at Hawaii
![Press, Charles (Interview outline and video), 2017 Press, Charles (Interview outline and video), 2017](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/b87e18557d22a541a3e52951b34f0733.jpg)
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- Text: in Detroit -Taught music there for twenty years -Worked as a counselor for thirteen years -Encouraged a lot of boys and girls to enlist in the military -They had no future in Detroit and no direction in life -Had a lot of them come back and thank him
![Eppinga, Stuart Dirk (Interview outline and video), 2015 Eppinga, Stuart Dirk (Interview outline and video), 2015](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/cadde29ca7360d3146b7c7ce0f3695dc.jpg)
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- Text: it and the same goes for the other fella's. I'll never forget it. Thanks for the nice compliment about my nice letters to you. Do you like Glenn Miller'smusic? I love all the slow, beautiful music. And I love sports, especially tennis. " Mart~ajane Kirby' 8468
![Kirby, Marthajane (Interview transcript and video), 2008 Kirby, Marthajane (Interview transcript and video), 2008](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/ba8ce7d8bbc356a6df340cba1d81784f.jpg)
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- Text: they would scramble about and be easy targets • The Chinese would play popular American music to try to make the troops homesick and they would also announce propaganda to try to make them surrender (53:40) Supplies • Someone would stand guard while others
![Pfeiffer, Dan (Interview outline and video), 2007 Pfeiffer, Dan (Interview outline and video), 2007](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/2ae5b3bd41609ec9c409fe473f3d31b6.jpg)
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- Text: (00:39:30) Downtime -Went to two parties at their base camp -Saw Japanese girl bands that were performing for the troops -Didn’t understand the lyrics, but enjoyed the music -Went water skiing on the Saigon River -Both activities were part of two three
![Pittman, James (Interview outline and video), 2014 Pittman, James (Interview outline and video), 2014](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/877757eb441a3a8ef99a4b6ba9e89467.jpg)
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- Text: ) 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 and France – never traveled to Egypt (01:02:03) When on the ship
![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: turntables a generator and a jeep to go around to various platoons in the Philippines and play music for them (33:43) Soon after the end of the war he had been sent to Korea (October of 1945) (34:44) This had been immediately after the Okinawa Typhoon
![Van Oss, Julius (Interview outline and video), 2011 Van Oss, Julius (Interview outline and video), 2011](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/e667ee51b081a1b35dfe132634e9e3e6.jpg)
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- Text: cornered into the barn. Built up sand bags on the outside of the hole. • Slept in the barn or the house on the floor and listened to music on a radio • Could hear ‘Big Bertha’ shells every night going off toward the beach front toward Ally ships • June
![Kriegbaum, Robert (Interview outline and video), 2007 Kriegbaum, Robert (Interview outline and video), 2007](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/fc559e70a3e142f7821745739a9678be.jpg)
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- Text: not do much shoot; mostly, they were shot at by the enemy (01:44:46:00) o At one point, Van Luyn’s unit was stationed Bayreuth, Germany, the town where the famous German composer Richard Wagner had died, and the men ended up staying in the music hall
![Van Luyn, William (Interview outline and video, 1 of 2), 2011 Van Luyn, William (Interview outline and video, 1 of 2), 2011](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/898e88600db780511f057cebb6df1412.jpg)
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- Text: the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. -Troops had been deployed out of Fort Knox to deal with riots in the cities -He stayed in the day room and played music to pass the time -Majority of black soldiers and even some white soldiers didn’t want to go
![Billingslea, Thornell (Interview outline and video), 2016 Billingslea, Thornell (Interview outline and video), 2016](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/0d36f49b5335dc44c344e1ce201a90b6.jpg)
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- Text: ) Downtime in Da Nang -For the most part he would spend downtime sleeping and eating -He got a reel-reel recorder through a friend that took an R&R in Japan -Used it to record music on the radio at the USO Club -Martha Ray came in as part of the USO
![Bajema, Melvin (Interview outline and video), 2014 Bajema, Melvin (Interview outline and video), 2014](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/4a6a29d0c9ea87c1258c2f666beadf0a.jpg)