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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...
![Maatman, Kenneth (Interview outline, video, and papers), 2004 Maatman, Kenneth (Interview outline, video, and papers), 2004](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/ed69e28efa630a4942bc30434adbfbbe.jpg)
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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...
![Burzynski, Thadius (Interview outline and video), 2007 Burzynski, Thadius (Interview outline and video), 2007](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/d9bb3b487e9b7eb5aebaff9484cb9f98.jpg)
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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...
![Van Oss, Julius (Interview outline and video), 2011 Van Oss, Julius (Interview outline and video), 2011](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/e667ee51b081a1b35dfe132634e9e3e6.jpg)
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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 ...
![Devries, Milton H. (Interview outline and video), 2007 Devries, Milton H. (Interview outline and video), 2007](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/023b2b2b57553b4fa412e0b6e07ac5d8.jpg)
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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...
![Gary, Lawrence M. (Interview outline and video), 2007 Gary, Lawrence M. (Interview outline and video), 2007](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/61a92d967ef25ef6f65c0c7637fb4e65.jpg)
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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...
![Scholz, Robert (Interview outline and video), 2014 Scholz, Robert (Interview outline and video), 2014](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/4a87e701f50fe75fc743bcf0d84c73bb.jpg)
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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...
![Beimers, Richard (Interview outline and video), 2004 Beimers, Richard (Interview outline and video), 2004](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/a823f6b6db6abbb45716fe6f03e3fe63.jpg)
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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...
![DeWitt, Arthur (Interview outline and video), 2008 DeWitt, Arthur (Interview outline and video), 2008](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/a3d187dac404755081bc6c7113f0e059.jpg)
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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...
![Dilley, Alva Newton (Interview outline, video, and papers, 2 of 2), 2007 Dilley, Alva Newton (Interview outline, video, and papers, 2 of 2), 2007](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/250250e095c89addcb791c52a0c0e644.jpg)
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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) �...
![Mulder, John (Interview outline and video), 2009 Mulder, John (Interview outline and video), 2009](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/fef441a01e870531ce67be49736a7075.jpg)
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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...
![Charles, Wayne (Interview outline and video), 2013 Charles, Wayne (Interview outline and video), 2013](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/efbe935243dba1254ba1345bd7ce65d6.jpg)
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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...
![Manes, Albert (Interview outline and video), 2004 Manes, Albert (Interview outline and video), 2004](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/c45af4682cd8f832715a6f102c453619.jpg)