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- Description: He supervised the installation and maintenance of communications lines in the China/Burma/India theater, particularly along the Burma Road in the last two years of the war. Letters and military documents appended to outline.
- Text: ...American Campaign Medal Service: All Services Instituted: 1942 Criteria: Service during 1941-46 withinthe American Theater. '" Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal Service: All Services Instituted: 1942 Criteria: Awarded for service in the Asiatic-Pacific Theater during 1...
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- Text: ...�� They lived with his wife’s parents for 6 months while he was looking for a job • They liked to watch silent movies in theaters; Charlie Chaplin was everyone’s favorite actor • They were in a theater when Pearl Harbor was attacked and the movie was stopped in the middle o...
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- Text: ... 6 weeks of basic training (approx. early 1945) (13:20) He was then sent to Fort Meade, Maryland, to be sent to the European Theater(13:55) Basic training for Infantry (14:00) Was a lot different than Air Corps basic training (14:05) No choice was given as to where he went. (1...
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- Text: ...om and board for recruits (06:00) Training • Simulated war • Weather was hot and rainy – similar to weather in Pacific Theater • Stayed from May 1941 until early-1942 o Was sent to Massachusetts • October 1941 – largest US army operation until that point o Was captured, and was ...
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- Description: ...Gary is a WW II Veteran who served in the United States Army in both the European and Pacific Theaters. He was assigned to F Co 341st Infantry Regiment (86th "Blackhawk" Div.), spending the majority of his military service time in the divisional motor pool. Although he saw very li...
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- Text: ...Grand Valley State University Veteran's History Project World War II – Pacific Theater Robert Scholz Total Time (01:19:57) Introduction (00:00:08) Robert was born January 16th, 1918 in Quincy, Illinois (00:00:22) His father owned a grocery store and his mother was a nurse (00...
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- Text: ...:18) · He was discharged from Camp Atterbury · He received the Good Conduct Medal (43:54) · He also received the American Theater Ribbon, European Theater Ribbon, and a Victory Medal · His discharge was officially on November 17, 1945 (45:34) · He was married just before he le...
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- Text: ...in the local area (00:09:48:00) o At the time, the soldiers were being trained for the possibility of combat in the European theater (00:10:35:00) § In fact, DeWitt and the other soldiers made it as far as Boston, Massachusetts before General Douglas McArthur decided he needed their divisi...
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- Text: ...following 2 Bronze Battle Stars for the Rhineland and Central Europe Campaigns American Theater Ribbon EAME Theater Ribbon (not sure exactly what these letters stand for but I believe it is the European Theater) 3 Overseas Service Bars Victory Medal Expert, Ml Rifle Seco...
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- Text: ...rance (9:00) Ended up serving with an infantry unit instead (9:20) Was shipped to California to trained to be in the Pacific theater, then went to Washington to embark (10:00) Took an Army transport to Hawaii (10:20) Trained in the hills of Hawaii for the invasion of Okinawa (10:45) �...
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- Text: ...went to high school at Muskegon High School (01:39) He remembers hearing about Pearl Harbor when he was down at the Michigan Theater (01:48) o When he came out of the movie theater everyone had the local newspaper saying that Pearl Harbor had been bombed Before that, he did not pay...
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- Text: ...nese lives. (31:06) Moved to another Aleutian Island called Adak on July 15, 1943. The island had a small air field, a movie theater, and small recreation areas. Stayed in Adak to recuperate from the battle of Attu. (32:29) Troops moved to Kiska on August 15, which was the island that the J...