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- Text: turntables a generator and a jeep to go around to various platoons in the Philippines and play music for them (33:43) Soon after the end of the war he had been sent to Korea (October of 1945) (34:44) This had been immediately after the Okinawa Typhoon
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- Text: cornered into the barn. Built up sand bags on the outside of the hole. • Slept in the barn or the house on the floor and listened to music on a radio • Could hear ‘Big Bertha’ shells every night going off toward the beach front toward Ally ships • June
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- Text: serious, but it was fun. He was a very good dancer and I had a good time with him. We didn't play our music so much down in Rangoon because of the environment, the mosquitoes and everything else, it was just so crude, but we did enjoy each other's company
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- Text: , but I didn't get involved or get to talk to them very much. Some of the other guys did, but I really can't recall holding a conversation with them for too long a period of time. FRANK BORING: There was this battle of the music going on. ERIK SHILLING
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- Text: because he died before I got back to the States. But then we went up to - Jim Music, I met him on the train, he and I went up together to San Francisco and they had reservations for us in a hotel there I've forgotten the name now, but we stayed
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- Text: for anything - just get that door open and get the music roll and get going'. What we had was a private garden, you know out there they use human feces all the time and our doctors inspected and claimed it was all right and that's where I got it from I know
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- Text: … FRANK BORING: The last party where you played musical chairs or something like that. Were you at that? J. J. HARRINGTON: I've got to say something about the Madam because she was a wonderful lady. FRANK BORING: Let's get that little bit first
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- Text: . Now the pilots seemed to have more time than anybody. That includes R. T. Smith. I read his diary and he has more damn time off then I ever thought. I'll get you R. T. He used to listen to a lot of music I think. But the fellows, we worked together
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- Text: not do much shoot; mostly, they were shot at by the enemy (01:44:46:00) o At one point, Van Luyn’s unit was stationed Bayreuth, Germany, the town where the famous German composer Richard Wagner had died, and the men ended up staying in the music hall
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- Text: games on Sunday, but we stayed in different hotels and met different people. I remember in Michigan, Battle Creek, when these fellas would carry our luggage to the hotel, you know from the bus into and up to our rooms, we played music because we liked
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- Text: music of a hymn “Be Still My Soul” and the most comfortable feeling imaginable fell over him o Crowell was put at ease in the midst of fire and noise o Was relaxed even though the rest of the flight was wild • During the flight, 40 mm were blowing
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- Text: , which had hosted the 1936 Olympics. • (53:43) While in Munich, he heard beautiful string music. He and other Americans came across a church, and looked inside. They were greeted by angry stares of elderly Germans, who probably assumed they had bombed
