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• Description: Fred Bernhardt enlisted in the Marines at the age of 17 in early 1944. He served in the Pacific Theater of WWII as an artillery observer for naval bombardments. He also served as a guard of the atomic bomb which was dropped on Nagasaki

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• Description: Morris Vander Veen is a World War II veteran who served in the U.S. Marines from 1944 to 1946. In this account he discusses his pre-enlistment, enlistment and training in the U.S. and the Pacific. Serving his active duty in the Pacific Theater
• Text: (28:14) o Left the Solomon Islands on March 15th, 1944 [1945] bound for Okinawa. Their convoy met up at a little atoll called Ulithi Atoll, Yap, Micronesia. Describes how it was the largest convoy invasion fleet in the Pacific Theater of WWII

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• Description: Frank Micele was born in Grand Rapids Michigan in 1923 and served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1943-1946 in the Pacific Theater during World War II. During his service, he fought in the entirety of the Battle of Iwo Jima and was involved

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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

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• Description: Fred Bernhardt enlisted in the Marines at the age of 17 in early 1944. He served in the Pacific Theater of WWII as an artillery observer for naval bombardments. He also served as a guard of the atomic bomb which was dropped on Nagasaki

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• Text: off the train because there was going to be a four hour stop, so we all got off the train and walked into town and went to a theater. By this time we‘d picked up two white guys from Grand Rapids, so we said, ―Let‘s go kill some time in the movie

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• Text: to the theater and the movie we went to see was Born Free. The next morning we got up, they had a civilian airplane and took us to Okinawa. In Okinawa we got our shots, we gave blood, collected our uniforms there and then went to Da Nang and from Da Nang you just

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• Text: and some other men were off-duty and standing near the outdoor movie theater when they saw a Russian ship moving across the canal, something was which not allowed on Sundays (01:12:09:00)     As two Navy tugs went to investigate, the men went back

David Christian was born in 1946 in Muskegon Heights, Michigan. After completing high school there in 194, he enlisted in the Marine Corps. After training in California, David was sent to Chu Lai, Vietnam in 1965. David's first tour was spent at Chu Lai and fixing aircraft at Marble Mountain Air Facility. After returning home and marrying his wife, David reenlisted for a second tour. David was promoted to sergeant and repaired aircraft at Chu Lai until 1970. David also worked at Iwakuni Marine Corps Base for the remaining 6 months of his second tour. David returned to the United States in 1970 where he worked at Camp Lejeune and as a Drill Instructor on Parris Island.

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• Text: "Mairzy Doats'" and ":Thanks for the Memories" came from this era. It was 'in Melbourne, that Howard met Nancy Raferty. Dawson, from Alabama, introduced her to him. He remembers going to a park where there was a Triumph car show. They went to a theater

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• Text: free time, or is it still all regimented? Yeah we did, we got to go to—there was a town there called Oceanside and then they would give us liberty on Sunday to go over. They had movie theaters and different things like that, but we weren’t old enough

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.