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  • Text: , but he produced music. He released an album, and performed at the Apollo Theater in New York City (48:15) He wrote many different motivational and faith based texts, and worked in theater (48:56) He was promoted from sales rep all the way to marketing
Weaver, David, Sr.(Interview outline and video), 2014

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  • Text: and sent to a hospital in New York. -Injured his back. -Navy didn’t tell them too much about the Russian position or Cold War in detail. -Iceland was backed by Russia, but the locals were very friendly. -Locals worked on the base in kitchens, and theater
Zandbergen, Ronald Fay (Interview outline and video), 2015

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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)
Galmish, Elvin (Interview outline and video), 2009

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  • Text: , Cuba; back to Adak.  Finally wound up with a tour of duty in Germany, and then ended up in Washington, D.C.  (00:26:05)In Japan, they were building a T.V. station at a naval base in Sasabo from a broken down movie theater.  1st T.V. station
Heintzelman, William L. (Interview outline and video), 2008

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  • Text: down with the ship, among them Earl O. Henry Sr. -Earl Jr.’s mother received news of Earl Sr.’s death on the same day Japan surrendered -A few weeks later, Earl’s mother went to a movie and saw a newsreel featuring the I-58 -Ran out of the theater
Henry, Earl O. Jr (Interview outline and video), 2016

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  • Text: -Had a movie theater, bowling alleys, and a basic TV station -There were military families on Midway -There was a high school -Servicemen played sports games against the students -Housing on Midway was very clustered -He lived in barracks close
Kooyman, Harry (Interview outline and video), 2012

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  • Text: Air Force Base Pt. 1 -One man flew in the China-Burma-India Theater in WWII -One man flew in a B-17 bomber as a gunner and shot down a German Me-109 fighter plane -One man flew a P-51 fighter plane during the war -Rick was a young, new officer and had
Sturim, Frederick P (Interview outline and video), 2015

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  • Text: States Air Force Europe. He got into Cambridge quite frequently, but he got into London once. He got to a theater and saw the opening of James Bond: From Russia with Love. The English were very friendly to him and he really enjoyed his time over
Fields, Mike (Interview outline and video), 2010

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  • Text: switch to third time and began traveling back and forth between the base and his home, through the end of May, 2002 (00:39:10:00) Pre-Invasion / The Iraq War (00:39:23:00)  On June 1st, 2002, Heine received his second star and took command of a theater
Heine, Robert (Interview outline and video), 2012

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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
Redwine, Gerald (Interview transcript and video), 2011

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  • Text: . Dorothy Folkema: No. James Smither: Right where the theaters were. Dorothy Folkema: Occasionally, now once a month, there was a church in Godwin Heights that 30:00 had a dinner, and the girls I worked with would give me a dime for gas, they’d pitch
Folkema, Dorothy (Interview transcript and video), 2009

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  • Text: story here. Anything else you’d like to add to the record here, before we close out? Well, for the record I would like to say that in 1944 Glenn Miller performed for the troops in Plymouth at the theater and, Harry was in France, so it must have been
Kilmer, Dora (Interview transcript and video), 2012