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  • Text: ...chool on Oahu -Will never forget driving through the pineapple fields on his way to the base -Enjoyed the school -Woke up to music every morning -Informal -Received a lot of gunnery training -Worked with 20mm antiaircraft guns -Trained with .50 caliber machine guns -Worked on a 40mm gun on ...
Beachum, Norman L (Interview outline and video), 2011

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  • Text: ...we pulled into the train depot at night and they actually had a band out to meet us and I couldn't believe it. Here was music playing and people yelling and greeting us and really trying to make us feel at home. I didn't expect anything like that. I don't know whether I'...
Ken Jernstedt interview (video and transcript, 2 of 6), 1991

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  • Text: ...I don’t know where he got located though further on in the Pacific I guess. We had all kinds of good music. Those wonderful songs of WWII were played on the ship radio and I lay in the sun on the deck. Didn’t do much of anything for five (5) days. I got into the presidio and I think I...
Warber, Ester (Interview transcript and video), 2004

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  • Text: ...He sometimes took naps there as well. They also took the underground subway to Piccadilly Circus. There he saw musicals, had dates, and went to bars. They all laughed and had a great time. (28:20) The English people there treated him and the other soldiers very well all the time. They stopp...
Zator, Thaddeus (Interview outline and video), 2010

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  • Text: ...e frontier westerns – everybody had a gun, everybody was mixed. They would go around, there'd be shootings, there was music going and blaring. We came out one night after eating there in a restaurant and these two Burmese drivers were coming up the road with this cat - this Snow Leop...
Robert "Burma Bob" Locke interview (video and transcript, 2 of 8), 1991

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  • Text: ... the far southwest corner of the Sixth Circuit, in Memphis, Tennessee, there is the black community that gave birth to blues music and rhythm and blues. and inspired a poor white in the housing projects, Elvis Presley. The boundaries of the 12 judicial circuits of the United States Court of...
Miles, Wendell A. (Interview outline, video, and papers), 2007

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  • Text: ...e words down by how they sounded and Earl did the same thing. • Earl graduated from the 8th grade with one extra credit in Music. • Earl went to high school between Garfield and Damascus. • (13:47) His high school had a basketball team but no football team. He was told he should play ...
Mather, Earl (Interview outline and video), 2008

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  • Text: ...1 I guess since I was able to walk. My daddy—we had two boys, but he made a tomboy out of me. My brothers were into music and stuff like that, so I started playing ball from the time I was a tiny thing I guess. I’d say about ten or somewhere around there. Interviewer: “Whom were you...
Denoble, Jerre (Interview transcript and video), 2010

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  • Text: ...f Lofer, near Salzburg -Saw the reopening of Mozart's house and theater -Watched the first performance of Mozart's music since the Nazi occupation -One man in his unit acted as the manager for the performance -Allowed Allan and his friends to watch the performance from box seats (...
Ostar, Allan W (Interview outline and video), 2016

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  • Text: ... flat on my back there for thirty some days. They had sand bags on both sides of my head and I never got so sick of Hawaiian music in all of my life. 39:01 Of course they were trying to build up your morale and they put those earphones on and played and played that Hawaiian music u...
Austin, Robert (Interview transcript and video), 2008

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  • Text: ...they have chaperones for this, older people who were looking out? PS: Yeah. Yeah. They had chaperones. JS: And then, for the music, did they have live bands there? Or just records? PS: I think it was records. (10:18) JS: How big were these dances? How many people do you think were at them...
Stolk, Peggy (Interview transcript and video), 2008

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  • Text: ...was my dad and I, like I said, we were always so close, and we were standing back in the entrance way of the church, and the music kept playing “Here Comes the Bride.” And my dad and I kept talking and talking. I don’t know how many times they played it. And Ed tells me, he thought he...
Johnson, Mae (Interview transcript and video), 2012