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- Description: he wound up being stationed to the battleship New Jersey as a dispersing officer where he would be the youngest officer on the ship at age 19. After a few years on a few different ships, Paul would arrive to the Eastern theater during the Korean
- Text: :22) In 1948 after the USS Power, Paul was asked where he would like to go next and told them he wanted to be stationed at a shipyard in Boston (00:28:49) Korean War & Beyond (00:31:06) Paul arrived to the Eastern theater during the Korean War
![Allen, Paul (Interview outline and video), 2014 Allen, Paul (Interview outline and video), 2014](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/fb5e87df9b52898e847d4edada76b704.jpg)
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- Text: food (11:15) • Had really bad food in Basic Training (11:40) • Was in a supply unit, so was never without supplies (12:00) • Had bowling alleys and movie theaters to keep them entertained (12:50) • Had a chance while in Germany to go to Augsburg
![Austhof, Jack (Interview outline and video), 2004 Austhof, Jack (Interview outline and video), 2004](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/404dfab82d7c06c655cd4cfceae8a6ef.jpg)
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- Text: an infantryman in the Army -Father had served in the Army during World War II -Served in the European Theater -Talked about his experiences -Felt that that prepared him for his own service in the Air Force -Father was neutral about Joe's decision to enlist
![DiLorenzo, Joseph James (Interview outline and video), 2015 DiLorenzo, Joseph James (Interview outline and video), 2015](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/fdd779af9406d8240ffc3f1b3d65bb74.jpg)
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- Text: • After all the time spent in Thailand James really missed pizza, drive-in theaters, and American women (01:14:00) Oklahoma • James had been living off base in a mobile home with other men in the military • There was not much to do in Oklahoma; they were
![De la Cruz, James (Interview outline and video), 2008 De la Cruz, James (Interview outline and video), 2008](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/40df57f75b88ad92a5cc63d95e600c4f.jpg)
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- Text: call with his company -Went about doing maintenance work -Work day ended at about 5 PM -Went to get dinner then had the rest of the night to yourself -Go to the movie theater -Go to the Enlisted Men Club -Pass the time with other forms of recreation
![Gronevelt, Glenn (Interview outline and video), 2015 Gronevelt, Glenn (Interview outline and video), 2015](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/2b574a3aa333207dca67482b8b3cabaf.jpg)
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- Text: War II as a 2nd lieutenant -Fought in the European Theater (00:03:02) Vietnam War Pt. 1 -Didn't pay a lot of attention to the Vietnam War -Had high school friends whose brothers were drafted -Saw a lot of protests and opposition to the Vietnam War
![Novakoski, Raymond Francis (Interview outline and video), 2015 Novakoski, Raymond Francis (Interview outline and video), 2015](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/c6ce9afaaa287280d74dc687c587310b.jpg)
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- Text: Grand Valley State University Veterans' History Project Bill Groom 58 minutes 28 seconds (00:00:40) Early Life -Born on March 10, 1951, in Greenville, Michigan -Father served in World War II and fought the Japanese in the Pacific Theater -Before
![Groom, Bill (Interview outline and video), 2016 Groom, Bill (Interview outline and video), 2016](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/085171896ca9d6935569ebef59190a66.jpg)
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- Text: ) • Time spent in transit was three months. The battle they had been sent to assist in was still on-going. (31:23) Medals and Symbols • Received a medal for the Asiatic Pacific Theater. He also received two battle-stars, one for the Admiralties, and one
![Keith III, Elvin W. (Interview outline and video), 2008 Keith III, Elvin W. (Interview outline and video), 2008](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/65ecfc5d5214cdf99d6ddf3aadfe8e5a.jpg)
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- Text: -Had a movie theater, bowling alleys, and a basic TV station -There were military families on Midway -There was a high school -Servicemen played sports games against the students -Housing on Midway was very clustered -He lived in barracks close
![Kooyman, Harry (Interview outline and video), 2012 Kooyman, Harry (Interview outline and video), 2012](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/24ac16db7d36d40da24a319c22046a5e.jpg)
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- Text: Air Force Base Pt. 1 -One man flew in the China-Burma-India Theater in WWII -One man flew in a B-17 bomber as a gunner and shot down a German Me-109 fighter plane -One man flew a P-51 fighter plane during the war -Rick was a young, new officer and had
![Sturim, Frederick P (Interview outline and video), 2015 Sturim, Frederick P (Interview outline and video), 2015](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/5ed059593e6593c3fec5e20e931e7e0f.jpg)
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- Text: , the soldiers would be brought back into a base camp, which tended to have modern amenities, including movie theaters; Dorstewitz thought it was neat that one of the camps even had a “steakhouse” (00:13:22:00) o On two separate occasions, when the unit came back
![Dorstewitz, Peggy (Interview outline and video), 2010 Dorstewitz, Peggy (Interview outline and video), 2010](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/3b64fab5c2c59382ccace774efd51c68.jpg)