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Ted Hines (interview)

 Digital Record
Identifier: MS012_10_31_hines

Dates

  • Creation: ca.1990s

General Physical Description note

Number of tapes:1 [tape stock length: 60 minute]

General note

Coverage: 1941-1945Topics discussed : (side A): Wartime remembrance; Dec. 7, 1941 (Pearl Harbor); was listening to the newsflash about the attack on the radio; heard President Roosevelt; Father fought in WW I; Feelings about the war; great American pride and support shown at home; hope for it to end quickly; Involvement of those personally known; uncles and cousins; one cousin was a major in Guadalcanal, another a fighter pilot and col. In the Marines; two uncles fought in Sippan; 1st cousin fought under Gen. Patton, but his squadron was killed fighting Rommell, he survived but never the same and died an alcoholic at home; War to him; too young to know much; Holocaust was a tragic event as was the dropping of Atomic bombs; Wartime economy; factories made money making supplies for war; food shortage and rationing

Repository Details

Part of the Western Connecticut State University Archives and Special Collections Repository

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