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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: , 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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• Text: • Simulated war • Weather was hot and rainy – similar to weather in Pacific Theater • Stayed from May 1941 until early-1942 o Was sent to Massachusetts • October 1941 – largest US army operation until that point o Was captured, and was a POW for a few days

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• Text: Grand Valley State University Veteran's History Project World War II – Pacific Theater Robert Scholz Total Time (01:19:57) Introduction (00:00:08)  Robert was born January 16th, 1918 in Quincy, Illinois (00:00:22)  His father owned a grocery store

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• Text: doing nothing From Fort Crowder, he was sent to Camp Atterbury in Indiana (43:15) After the Service – (43:18) · He was discharged from Camp Atterbury · He received the Good Conduct Medal (43:54) · He also received the American Theater Ribbon, European

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• Text: of combat in the European theater (00:10:35:00) § In fact, DeWitt and the other soldiers made it as far as Boston, Massachusetts before General Douglas McArthur decided he needed their division in the Pacific; this meant the soldiers received training

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• Text: (9:20) Was shipped to California to trained to be in the Pacific theater, then went to Washington to embark (10:00) Took an Army transport to Hawaii (10:20) Trained in the hills of Hawaii for the invasion of Okinawa (10:45)           Sent

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• Text: , 1952. Ann and I were married on February 16, 1952. 11. My various Army records show that I received the 'decoration, service medals and citations" . following 2 Bronze Battle Stars for the Rhineland and Central Europe Campaigns American Theater

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• Description: , 381st Infantry Regiment. He trained in Oregon and California before deploying to the Pacific Theater on July 15, 1944. He participated in the invasion of Leyte, Philippines, on October 20, 1944, and the subsequent Battle of Leyte which ended on December
• Text: -reading training (00:20:50) Deployment to the Pacific Theater -From Camp Beale the division went to Camp Stoneman, California to prepare to go overseas -Took a barge down to San Francisco and boarded a troopship -Left the United States on July 15, 1944

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• Text: from being part of a major oil company to being independent (01:20)  He called the gas station his gold mine He went to high school at Muskegon High School (01:39) He remembers hearing about Pearl Harbor when he was down at the Michigan Theater (01:48