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Partial Transcript: Today is April 12, 2003.
Segment Synopsis: Talks about being drafted into the seabees. Talks about duties, what the food was like, and sending letters back home.
Keywords: 20th Special Battalion; Camp Pendleton; Camp Perry, Virginia; Marines; Navy Seabees; San Diego; Seaman First Class; South Pacific Theatre; Special Naval Construction Battalion; Stevedores; draft; winch driver
Subjects: Camp Pendleton (Calif.); Draft.; San Diego (Calif.); Stevedores.; United States. Marine Corps.; United States. Navy. Seabees.
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Partial Transcript: Now when you went out on the point system when you were discharged.
Segment Synopsis: Talks about when he was discharged and what it was like returning to LaGrange, KY.
Keywords: Great Lakes, Illinois; LaGrange, KY; discharge; point system
Subjects: Great Lakes (North America); La Grange (Ky.); Military discharge.
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Partial Transcript: Let me go back to your overseas service.
Segment Synopsis: Talks about traveling overseas to Aberdeen Island. Talks about what it was like living on Aberdeen Island.
Keywords: Aberdeen Island; Fort Wayne, California; USS Hancock; USS Sea Flasher; atabrine pills; barracks; troop ship
Subjects: Barracks.; Hancock (Transport)
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Partial Transcript: Now in the 1940's the service was still segregated.
Segment Synopsis: Talks about his experience with segregation in the service, what kind of work he did after the service and where he was when Pearl Harbor was attacked.
Keywords: Kentucky; Pearl Harbor
Subjects: Kentucky.; Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941.
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Partial Transcript: Did you always have the same crew assigned to you?
Segment Synopsis: Talks about how much he worked, eating on the island, his friend getting killed, his son joining the Navy, and what he thought of his commanding officers. Talks about unloading Australian ships, going souvenir hunting, weather in the South Pacific, and Japanese hand grenades.
Keywords: Atlanta, Georgia.; Australia; Dutch New Guinea; Navy; South Pacific; barracks; battalion; bulldozer; hand grenades; souvenir hunting; stevedores
Subjects: Atlanta (Ga.); Australia.; Barracks.; Bulldozers.; Grenades.; New Guinea.; Stevedores.; United States. Navy.
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Partial Transcript: What stands out in your memory better than anything else in your WWII service?
Segment Synopsis: Talks about being assigned to the Navy, reporting in Louisville to be examined, K-rations, his brother in the Army, and basic training.
Keywords: Army; K-ration; Navy Louisville, KY; Stevedore; Williamsburg, Virginia; dynamite; jungle rash; picture shows; veterans hospital; winch
Subjects: Dynamite.; Louisville (Ky.); Stevedores.; United States. Army.; United States. Navy.; Veterans' hospitals.
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Partial Transcript: Now you brought with you today a certificate when you crossed the Equator.
Segment Synopsis: Talks about getting a certificate for crossing the Equator and how he feels about being part of the war.
Keywords: Equator; Oldham County Historical Society; Ra Ra
Subjects: Equator.; Oldham County Historical Society (Oldham County, Ky.)