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    "ocrText": "Oct. 5\nReturned to Atsugi.\nNov. 2\nDeparted for U.S. aboard U.S.N.S. Barrett\nNov. 15\nArrived San Francisco\nNov. 19\n30 days leave.\nDec. 22\nAssigned to Marine Air Control Squadron at El Toro.\nFeb. 25, 1959\nTook foreign language qualification test.\n\"Spring\"\nMet KERRY THORNLEY and NELSON DELGADO.\nMar. 19\nApplied to Albert Schweitzer College.\nAug. 17\nSubmitted request for Dependency Discharge.\nAug. 28\nApproval recommended by Dependency Discharge Board.\nSep. 4\nApplied for passport in Santa Ana.\nSep. 4\nTransferred out of MACS-9 \"in preparation for his\ndischarge.'\nSep. 10\nPassport \"routinely issued\".\nSep. 11\nTransferred to Marine Corps Reserves.\nSep. 14\nArrived in Fort worth\nSep. 17\nArrived in New Orleans\nSep. 20\nS.S. Marion Lykes sailed for Europe with OSWALD\naboard.\nJOHN RENE HEINDEL\nStated by affidavit ( 8 H 318) that he was in the Marine Corps\nfrom July 15, 1957 until July 15, 1961. He was stationed at Atsugi\nwith OSWALD. Under oath HEINDEL stated he does not recall seeing\nOSWALD at El Toro. In his statement of September 19, 1967, HEINDEL\nsays \"OSWALD must have been on the same ship with us.\" OSWALD\ndeparted for Japan on August 22, 1957, and HEINDEL says he arrived\nat Atsugi in the latter part of August, 1957.\nKERRY THORNLEY\nIn his affidavit of September 28, 1967 recalls that OSWALD spoke\nRussian in the ranks at El Toro, not Atsugi, in the Spring of 1959.\nTHORNLEY was not asked if he had been to Atsugi. He left El Toro\nand went \"overseas\" in June 1959. (II H 85) THORNLEY testified\nthat he arrived in New Orleans on either September 3 or 4, 1963\n(II H. 110) - He had come from Mexico City, where he had spent six\ndays.\nThere follows a list of names of people who served in the\nMarines and who either did or might have known OSWALD:\nNAME\nSOURCE OF INFORMATION\nKerry Thornley\nTestimony, 11 H 82 = 115\nJohn Rene Heindel\nAffidavit, 8 H 318\nNelson Delgado\nTestimony, 8 H 228 - 265\nRichard cole\n8 H 322\nAllen Felde\nWarren Report, p. 682\nDaniel Powers\nTestimony, 8 H 266 - 289\nPaul Edward Murphy\n8 H 320\nJohn Donovan\nTestimony, 8 H 289 - 303\nHenry T. Roussell\n8 H 320\nOval Jones\nHeindel FBI interview\n-2-\ng"
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