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• Text: ...rking in Repairs and utilities • Kenneth’s officer found out that he had worked as an architect and asked him to build a theater • The theater took 4 months to build and then Kenneth was rewarded with a week of R & R in Japan (15:30) Living in Korea • Kenneth was made c...

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• Description: ... 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 War as he was primarily based out of Yokusuka Japan in late 1950. He later served assignments at the Pentagon and aboard the carrier USS Ess...
• Text: ...anted 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 the day the United States invaded Inchon, South Korea on September 15th, 1950 (00:31:06)  He was primarily based out of Yokusuka, Jap...

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• Description: ...Jay Shook served in the US Navy in World War II and the Korean War. He served in the Pacific Theater in World War II on the USS Bailey, a destroyer, and escorted LSI's and LSG's in to landing zones. During the Korean War, Jay served on the USS Bryce Canyon, a Destroyer class maint...

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• Description: ...he discusses his pre-enlistment, enlistment and training in the U.S. and the Pacific. Serving his active duty in the Pacific Theater, Vander Veen gives one a brief but detailed perspective of what island-hopping fighting was like specifically focusing on the fighting on Okinawa. He then dis...
• Text: ...t a little atoll called Ulithi Atoll, Yap, Micronesia. Describes how it was the largest convoy invasion fleet in the Pacific Theater of WWII. The place that they met was the sight of where the aircraft carrier, [USS Franklin] had been bombed and sunk [not sunk, but very badly damaged] killi...

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• Text: ...ad tried to screen the men because the radar operators were given somewhat special treatment; they laid out a map of all the theaters where the operators were desperately needed and the operators listed where they wanted to go, first come, first serve (00:26:11:00) o Pahl knew that he did n...

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• Text: ...es out of the ring (9:44) High school • Played some baseball o Best “sport” was marbles, though • Very involved with theater o Got the lead role both his junior and senior year ƒ Each play was 3 hours long • Didn’t go to prom • Used to have cake walks • Used to love to watc...

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• Description: ...Once finished with training at Fort Wheeler, Georgia, Morrin deployed to the European theater, remaining until after the end of the war, including helping with security during the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal. After returning home, Morrin initially got out of active duty but re-enlisted af...