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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
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• Text: . INTERVIEWER: Okay. And what branch of service and what was your highest rank? I was in the Marine Corps and I became a Corporal. INTERVIEWER: Okay thank you. Where did you serve? What theater of the war? What theater? Slager, Kenneth INTERVIEWER: What

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• Text: be letters?” Just with my mother and that was occasional. Interviewer: “Okay, alright and did the military provide anything to entertain you with, I mean were there movie theaters on bases that you could go to or were you just in these small groups?” Leet

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• Text: newsreels at the movie theater? That kind of thing? Veteran: Yes. Right. Newsreels and newspapers and so forth. Interviewer: Okay. So, you had some awareness of it. Okay, now, you were still pretty young when the war started? Veteran: Yes. Interviewer: You

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• Text: happened?” I was coming out of Fox Theater [in] downtown Detroit and they were selling extras: “Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.” So that was–– I knew I would eventually be on. By the way, I was very proud to serve my country–– very proud. Interviewer: “Before

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• Text: with the locals driving those. So, we'd kind of depend on those to get up to the flight line to go to work and everything but we had movie theater, they had a lot of amenities there that you know most people don't have. (19:23) Interviewer: Yeah, I mean were

Chester Johnson was born in South Haven, Michigan, in 1949. He attended high school in Benton Harbor and graduated in 1967. Chester was drafted into the Army in January 1969. He completed basic training at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. He did his advanced individual training at Fort McClellan, Alabama. Chester then went to non-commissioned officer (NCO) school at Fort Benning, Georgia. He was sent to Vietnam in early 1970, where he was assigned to B company, 1st battalion, 196th regiment of the light infantry brigade. During his time in Vietnam, Chester was involved in various skirmishes. He was part of a group that was sent into Laos on a patrol mission. He went on R and R in Australia in November 1970. He returned home from Vietnam in December 1970. Chester is currently involved with a veterans’ group in Battle Creek, Michigan.