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- Text: ...tayed in a cove for 1 week while waiting for submarines to pass. During this week, the men played many cards and listened to music. (27:17) The ship landed in Kodiak Bay in Alaska in early summer 1942. (28:08) After landing, the men traveled up the coast to a field where they sent up camp. ...
![McNamara, Martin (Interview outline and video), 2008 McNamara, Martin (Interview outline and video), 2008](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/29fc6655d4b24d1a4cf0bba5a6d10d98.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: ... their 6-inch gun barrels causing one ship to keel over at one point. (11:49) • Astrauckas related how he was listening to music while rockets fired from the ships to shore. (12:51) •Arrived at Normandy on D+1 and unloaded British/Canadian troops on Juno. (13:01) •Briefly describ...
![Astrauckas, Richard (Interview outline and video), 2008 Astrauckas, Richard (Interview outline and video), 2008](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/9444c6ac3ff9a8548d2238a48a78bd80.jpg)
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- Text: -Given time every weekend to go into town to New York City. (00:25:00) -Regrets never stopping to see musical Oklahoma while it was playing in the City. -Finished the training around the 2nd week of July 1945. -Roosevelt claimed intentions to give Merchant Marines war veteran status.
![Bush, Alfred L "Sam" (Interview outline and video), 2015 Bush, Alfred L "Sam" (Interview outline and video), 2015](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/0e5656df33a09c1160b1d464f9647b4e.jpg)
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- Text: ...irection and discipline he needed (00:33:26) Life after the War Pt. 2 -Taught at Southeastern High School 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 an...
![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: ...e -Boarded a ship in Seattle with no naval escorts 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...
![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: ...It isn't any good that way. Love, StanN -6-9-45 ..... The tent is vacant and there's some siteet music coming from far down the way and it makes it easier to write a nice letter to you. Tonight I listened to Hit Parade and heard -Laura N... that piece I love. It's a haunting ...
![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: ...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: ... P.A. operator He was given 2 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 in Octobe...
![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: ...�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 1‐Cassino ha...
![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: ...ed Bayreuth, Germany, the town where the famous German composer Richard Wagner had died, and the men ended up staying in the music hall that Wagner had built (01:44:56:00) The first night the men billeted in the music hall, Van Luyn was outside when a German plane began strafin...
![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: ...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)