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• Description: , and was selected to go aboard the USS Indianapolis (CA-35) and served in the ship's fire control division (firing the ship's gun). He participated in the ship's major operations in the Pacific Theater in 1944 and 1945, including the invasion of Okinawa. After
• Text: Division on the ship -Part of the crew that fired the ship's guns (00:09:53) Pacific Theater & Battle of Okinawa -The Indianapolis participated in ten major operations in the Pacific Theater -He participated in nine of them -The ship was hit by a kamikaze

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• Description: ) and sailed to San Diego (via the Mississippi River and the Panama Canal) before going to the Pacific Theater. He served as the radio operator on the flotilla flagship, but also handled supplies and knew how to operate a 20mm antiaircraft gun. Gerald
• Text: Command for amphibious ships -Able to go home every weekend during Radio School -Took a “milk train” back to Michigan -Occasionally got leaves to downtown Chicago (00:07:43) Deployment to Pacific Theater -After Radio School, he and his class went to Seneca

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• Description: to Belfast, Ireland in preparation for the Normandy Invasion. In late 1944 he was reassigned to a ship in the Pacific Theater, and in January 1945 they set sail. He was aboard that ship and participated in the pre-invasion bombardment of an island
• Text: the crew to abandon ship -Operated in the south Atlantic Ocean until September 1942 -Sailed to Brooklyn Naval Yard and he got 90 hours of leave -At this point his brothers were serving in the Pacific Theater -From Brooklyn Naval Yard they went back

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• Text: 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 corporal when he got back from Japan and continued working on new buildings • He

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• Text: was attacked • He got married in 1940; they had a Polish wedding that lasted for 3 days • They lived with his wife’s parents for 6 months while he was looking for a job • They liked to watch silent movies in theaters; Charlie Chaplin was everyone’s favorite

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• Description: Ken Maatman was an Officer in the Army Signal Corps during World War II. He supervised the installation and maintenance of communications lines in the China/Burma/India theater, particularly along the Burma Road in the last two years of the war
• Text: of 1st Lt Kenneth B. Maatman for service with (he United States Army Pacific Theater, World War II and U.S. Army Reserves Bronze Star Medal Service: All Services Instituted: 1944 .' Criteria: Awarded for heroicor meritorious achievement or service

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• Text: • Alfred has 3 children and 6 grandchildren • He met his wife at a dance at the YWCA and was married in 1948 (27:00) Awards • Alfred has received the following awards: Asiatic Pacific Theater Medal, 2 Bronze Metal Stars, American Theater Ribbon, Philippine

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• Text: and sometimes they would be destroyed by enemy ships (00:14:52) • Still some enemy (German) ships out in the Caribbean; 1944 and early 1955 (00:15:05) Off Duty (00:15:33) Would often swim in the ocean, attend theaters (Truman’s White House, name of theater

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• Text: in Detroit • Describes Great Lakes Naval Station o What it looked like o Basic training (10 weeks long) o Required courses (6 weeks of classroom work) (05:25) Shipped to San Francisco • Placed on an oilier named Kaskaskia (06:50) Pacific Theater in 1945 (08

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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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• Description: Lawrence M. Gary is a WW II Veteran who served in the United States Army in both the European and Pacific Theaters. He was assigned to F Co 341st Infantry Regiment (86th "Blackhawk" Div.), spending the majority of his military service time

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• Description: Louis Armstrong due to his work helping the USO entertain servicemembers and enjoyed the time he spent living in the theater. Afterwards Low was required to requalify at the rifle range, and shot at an expert level, gaining him a position on a Marine
• Text: into Camp Lejeune - and I was a projectionist, when I was back in Wayland, there was a theater in Wayland and of course I had to work because my dad had passed away, and I got a job in the theater as an usher, cause I was tall and I could look – look older