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• Description: Kenneth Kelly was born on a farm in Coopersville, MI in 1925. He enlisted in the Navy in 1943 and served in a construction battalion (Seabees) in the Pacific theater, primarily in the Admiralties and on Okinawa. He relates several of his
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• Text: ) Current News Before the Draft • • George had been in the theater when he heard the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor; but he was not worried about it at the time George had not ever expected to be drafted when he was younger (3:15) His Father

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• Text: in 1946 when the Philippines gained their independence. -General McArthur was within viewing distance nearby. -A local movie theater was intact, so they went to the movies. -Merchant Marines are strict with a one year enlistment. -However because

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• Text: -Lasted six weeks -Doesn't remember Victory in Europe Day (May 8, 1945) -Not allowed to go into Chicago (00:14:26) Deployment to the Pacific Theater -Came home for a short leave after basic training -Took a train to Portland, Oregon and boarded a transport

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• Text: forget when the ship departed from San Francisco bound for Hawaii -Believed that he would be one of the casualties of the Pacific Theater -Loved being in the open ocean -Remembers 20 foot swells -When the ship dropped it felt like being weightless -When

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• Text: on leave -Found it to be a pretty city -Had never seen the Gulf of Mexico before -New experience being in the South -Remembers it was 75 degrees on Christmas Day 1966 -Going into the city got boring after a while -There was a movie theater, a USO shop

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• Text:  the local people would get ahold of them. If they were kinda  inebriated and so on and so forth, so, that’s about it.  So then after, so you make two trips across the Atlantic, and at that point, your  ship is transferred over to Pacific theater.  And when

Richard Jakubczak is from Grand Rapids Michigan and was born in May of 1946. After high school he worked at Lowell Engineering and as a farmer. He briefly attended Kendall School of Design, but dropped out in 1966 and he and his brother joined the Navy and volunteered for training as medical corpsmen. He completed his basic training and medical training at Great Lakes, Illinois, and then went to Camp LeJeune, North Carolina, for field training. He then worked at Great Lakes Naval Hospital for ten months, and went to Vietnam in February, 1968. He was assigned to the First Shore Party, which provided logistical support to Marine combat units in the field, and was regularly attached to combat units when on operations. He was based near Da Nang, and supported Marine units involved in Operations Allen Brook and Mameluke Thrust. He left Vietnam in February, 1969, and completed his enlistment at Great Lakes.