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- Text: ...tmas of 1945 he went to Garmsich, which had hosted the 1936 Olympics. • (53:43) While in Munich, he heard beautiful string music. He and other Americans came across a church, and looked inside. They were greeted by angry stares of elderly Germans, who probably assumed they had bombed the ...
![Lamb Jr., Lawrence (Bill) (Interview outline, video, and papers), 2008 Lamb Jr., Lawrence (Bill) (Interview outline, video, and papers), 2008](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/62fb14c995ad0e60f1cab3cce5909145.jpg)
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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 Warber, Ester (Interview transcript and video), 2004](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/e986c4bbb4c7964761dbd9e42d9556d3.jpg)
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- Text: ...ar killed off long range radio contact with the outside world -Very isolated in the Gulf -Stayed entertained with movies and music (00:17:17) First Vietnam Deployment-Incidents and Daily Life -Had a helicopter crash into their superstructure -Rotor fractured and exploded and wounded a numbe...
![Carlson, John (Interview outline and video, 3 and 4 of 4), 2011 Carlson, John (Interview outline and video, 3 and 4 of 4), 2011](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/affb9f8ba9c85f5f9aae3b6fc26e0020.jpg)
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- Text: ...ar killed off long range radio contact with the outside world -Very isolated in the Gulf -Stayed entertained with movies and music (00:17:17) First Vietnam Deployment-Incidents and Daily Life -Had a helicopter crash into their superstructure -Rotor fractured and exploded and wounded a numbe...
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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 Zator, Thaddeus (Interview outline and video), 2010](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/2b0f9159921575451d48ac80515a7888.jpg)
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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 Miles, Wendell A. (Interview outline, video, and papers), 2007](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/7389406afcf4e25836ef6915219f9e05.jpg)
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- Text: ...ip and in Japan, he bought turntables, speakers, and recording equipment so that when they were at sea, they could listen to music, mainly rock and roll records (00:18:48:00) o When they pulled into port at Formosa, the records were a dime an album and the men came to Wykstra to play them (...
![Wykstra, James (Interview outline and video), 2011 Wykstra, James (Interview outline and video), 2011](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/fae593a2da2fbb7ca50fadd1af553bac.jpg)
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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 Mather, Earl (Interview outline and video), 2008](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/c24c29ea3dc5c9a2f2c01c89f20a35c6.jpg)
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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 Austin, Robert (Interview transcript and video), 2008](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/f9183abecf9bb09bba80044df7c2c6e7.jpg)
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- Text: ...I didn’t have very much money, it was just the whole thing, Amsterdam, it was the start of the music thing—I didn’t—I was just a--I just loved the music, I liked all the women in Amsterdam, I liked the drinking and all that, but to me the music was the most—the g...
![Toms, Alan (Interview transcript and video, 1 of 2), 2011 Toms, Alan (Interview transcript and video, 1 of 2), 2011](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/125eadc257caf9ab9f29c1d572a3384f.jpg)
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- Text: ...They actually required me to take four or five days off and I stay right there in base camp and listen to music, I‟d listen to music and go to the NCO club. 45:00 22 Interviewer: One of the sort of standard critiques, largely cliché, about the soldiers in Vietnam, and so fort...
![Brinn, Joseph (Interview transcript and video), 2010 Brinn, Joseph (Interview transcript and video), 2010](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/f94fb7ed75d8c69ff25eed70394df60e.jpg)
Joe Lange was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan on October 9th, 1947. After graduating high school, Lange married and briefly attended college before getting a full-time job and receiving his draft notice. After receiving his draft noticed, Lange went through basic training at Fort Knox, Kentucky and advanced training at Fort Belvoir, Virginia to be a generator mechanic. Once he completed the training at Fort Belvoir, Lange returned home before deploying to Vietnam to serve for a year in the 124th Signal Battalion of the 4th Infantry Division.
![Lange, Joesph (Interview transcript and video), 2011 Lange, Joesph (Interview transcript and video), 2011](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/7c3d4984ff65a54e4d926da1375e7487.jpg)