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- Text: , for 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
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- Text: target and bomb that target while still keeping the bomber in formation (00:21:17:00) Later in the war, the bombing method used in the European theater of only having the bombardier on the lead bomber using the bombsight spread over to the Pacific
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- Text: Overseas Training -Men from all over the United States -Got along with them right away -Like a family (00:08:38) Deployment to Pacific Theater -Sent to Salinas, California and boarded a troopship in California -Sailed to the island of Biak -Joined the 372nd
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- Text: ) During leisure time they went to theater in nearby town (56:45) Wrote letters to his family often, and received letters often being in air force (59:10) Kept track of how many missions he had left and looked forward to it (1:00:17) Never knew if next
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- Text: WWII was when she would go to the movie theater and see the movie shorts since the U.S. was predominantly isolationist. (02:06) o With WWI, still fresh in many Americans’ minds the thought of going to war the prevalent attitude of resisting going to war
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- Text: all set to be sent to the Pacific Theater of Operations, was glad they weren’t Elvin was awarded the Air Medal with three clusters and a Purple Heart (00:30:20)
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- Description: Albert Engel, son of U.S. congressman Albert J. Engel, served in the U.S. Army from February 1943 to April 1946 in the European Theater during World War II. During basic training, Albert applied for OCS school, but due to his young age did poorly
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- Description: Albert Engel, son of U.S. congressman Albert J. Engel, served in the U.S. Army from February 1943 to April 1946 in the European Theater during World War II. During basic training, Albert applied for OCS school, but due to his young age did poorly
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- Text: to a theater and darken it to help them learn out to spot things. There was not a lot of emphasis on discipline, but they told you up from what they wanted you to do. He wasn’t much of a guy to break rules, so he stuck to what he was told to do. One thing
