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- Text: would always play music they commonly heard in New York. He did not care for it. (7:20) Arapaho and Apaches where also enlisted in the military and often these two groups would get in both physical and verbal arguments with one another. (8:00) After
![Fortier, Harry L. (Interview outline and video), 2011 Fortier, Harry L. (Interview outline and video), 2011](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/1b9ecc71f3aa1e4e262f060db79e67f5.jpg)
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- Text: at, but not punished -Allowed weekend passes -Found a good bar with good music in Biloxi (00:14:29) Specialist Training -Assigned to Chanute Field, Illinois for Specialist Training -It was a good base and the food was much better than at Keesler Field or Fort Sheridan
![Bouchard, Wallace Joseph (Interview outline and video), 2015 Bouchard, Wallace Joseph (Interview outline and video), 2015](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/de689de91d59e7b573c0a859539f5fba.jpg)
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- Text: just happened to be there at the same time I was. JS: So what did you go and see on that weekend? ME: Oh, music. What do you call it, Music… JS: Radio City… ME: Yeah. Radio City. He took me up in the Empire State Building. Just downtown New York. JS
![Edema, Margaret (Interview transcript and video), 2008 Edema, Margaret (Interview transcript and video), 2008](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/5c2a462476ea8638c11d70dc8007ed9f.jpg)
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- Text: • Many of the men he was with wanted to attack the Russians when they were done in the Pacific • The Marines were in Guam to support the Navy. They were non-combatants; their job was more mechanical • The USO came over to play music, but they did not like
![Steele, George (Interview outline and video), 2007 Steele, George (Interview outline and video), 2007](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/46dcbe73717c57129920606e05707633.jpg)
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- Text: Home for Veterans where he’s been for 2 months. He briefly discussed his musical history in the service and remembers playing at the Hoedown in Detroit, MI. Finally, he wraps up his discussion by stressing that being in a wheelchair should never stop
![Weaver, Dale A. (Interview outline and video), 2007 Weaver, Dale A. (Interview outline and video), 2007](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/111810ad9ce6ec5649cea231ed5cdff9.jpg)
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- Text: and the full year going to school. (43:25) o While doing this, he describes his extracurricular activities. (44:13) o Graduated from Union College in 1951 and afterwards got a job working with a denominational conference in a musical capacity. (44:48) o Life
![Penno, Paul (Interview outline and video), 2007 Penno, Paul (Interview outline and video), 2007](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/026f25b085b154332521139f2a9d12df.jpg)
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- Text: the voyage. (25:40) There were multiple ships traveling with Martin’s but not very close together. (26:25) Ship stayed 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
![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: . He graduated in 1942. (5:20) He has 1 brother 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
![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: was intended to be nine months long. -However for time constraints it was compacted to five months. -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
![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: of fire on their ships with 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
![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: recall that at all? ROBERT MOSS: I have known, I guess, as long as I've known Doc Rich that if there happened to be music and a woman, he was dancing. FRANK BORING: What were some of the stops along the way like? Do you recall any shore leave, or were
![Robert "Moose" Moss interview (video and transcript, 2 of 11), 1991 Robert "Moose" Moss interview (video and transcript, 2 of 11), 1991](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/640a4be80f53100981f2ebee86d6be1f.jpg)