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Collection: Adam Reigart Jr., John S. Murphy Collection

Title: Adam Reigart Jr., John S. Murphy Collection

Object ID: MG0331

Date Range: 1762-2003

Henry Y. Slaymaker. �230 North President Avenue • Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17603-3125 717.392.4633 • www.LancasterHistory.org Source of Acquisition: Gift of John S. Murphy, October 2003. Custodial History (Provenance): Accruals: No further accruals are expected. Preferred Citation: Title or description

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Collection: Adam Reigart Jr., John S. Murphy Collection

Title: Adam Reigart Jr., John S. Murphy Collection

Description: The Adam Reigart Jr., John S. Murphy Collection contains correspondence between Adam Reigart, Jr. in Lancaster and Philip Wager in Philadelphia and their families. The letters are primarily from the early nineteenth century and provide information about family illness, travel, visits, business, and family chatter. The receipts and invoices show purchases made in Lancaster and Philadelphia, especially clothing, fabric, dry goods, and meat. The remainder of the collection is made up of newspaper articles, books, and an album of poetry and drawings. The items were housed in a gig trunk which is now in the museum collection.

Admin/Biographical History: Adam Reigart, Jr. (1765-1844) was born in Lancaster. He was the eldest son of Col. Adam Reigart, owner of the Grape Tavern which served as general headquarters during the Revolutionary War. Adam Jr. founded the Reigart Wine Store in 1785 and was in business with Philip Wager in Philadelphia and Philip's son Peter throughout his career. He was the first president of the Lancaster branch of the Bank of Pennsylvania, and was involved with the Conestoga Navigation Company and the Union Fire Company.; Adam Jr. married Mary Magdalena Wager (1772-1806) in 1791. Mary was the daughter of Philip Wager, a Philadelphia wine merchant. They had eight daughters and a son. Susan married Stephen C. Slaymaker and Margaretta married Henry Y. Slaymaker.

Date Range: 1762-2003

Year Range From: 1762

Year Range To: 2003

Date of Accumulation: 1762-2003

Creator: Murphy, John Slaughter, 1921-2011

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 08

People: Arnold, Benedict; Baker, W.; Bare, Jacob; Blight, Peter; Boughter, Charles; Breidenhart, George; Brien, Edward; Brown, Luke; Butter, Charles; Cassidy, Edward; Clarke, John; Clendenin, Samuel; Coleman, Edward; Coleman, William; Edwards, Susanna; Ehler, John; Fisher, Sammy; Fox, Sam M.; Frey, John; Gaskill, Edmund; Gay, Edward F.; Getz, John; Givens, John; Graeff, George; Greland, D.; Hahn, B. Christian; Harrison, George; Haverstick, William; Hopkins, A. R.; Hopkins, Ann; Houston, James; Hubley, Frederick; Hubley, Joseph; Hultzheimer, N.; Hyde, Charles; Irving, Robert; Jack, Joshua; Kauffman, Jacob; King, George; Kirkpatrick, William; Kline, Jacob; Lane, John; Leiper, George G.; Lowry, Robert; Lowry, Robert K.; Mayer, George Louis; Metzger, Emanuel; Metzger, George; Metzger, Jacob; Miller, Barbara; Miller, Henry; Miller, Martin; Miller, Philip; Montgomery, William; Morris, John; Mosher, Joseph; Murphy, John Slaughter; Myer, John; Myers, John; Newlin, Nathaniel; Nice, Levi; Nimrod, Maxwell; Ogilby, Joseph; Otto, Jacob S.; Otto, John C.; Pennington, Edward; Peters, Abraham; Phinney, Zina; Price, Joseph; Price, Richard; Reigart, Adam; Reigart, Adam, Jr.; Reigart, Ann; Reigart, Emanuel; Reigart, Henrietta; Reigart, Maria Wager; Reigart, Mary; Reigart, Mary C.; Reigart, Philip Wager; Reigart, Susan; Rimfast, John; Sample, Joseph; Schaubel, Johannis; Sener, Samuel Miller; Sewell, Charles S.; Shaeffer, Jacob; Shenk, Abraham; Shenk, Christian; Shippen, Peggy; Singer, A.; Slaymaker, Henry Edwin; Slaymaker, Mary Steele; Slaymaker, Stephen Cochran; Smith, Ann; Smith, Anthony; Smith, Ralph; Stein, Philip; Steinman, George; Stewart, William; Sullivan, Susannah; Wager, George; Wager, Hannah; Wager, James; Wager, Mary; Wager, Peter; Wager, Philip H.; Wager, Sally; Wager, Sophia; Wager, William; Walsh, Christopher; Wentz, Thomas; Wertz, Christian; Wharton, Charles; Whitaker, George; Whitaker, John; Wimer, Michael; Winroth, Margaret; Witmer, David; Woodmund, William; Yeiser, Philip

Other Creators: Reigart family

Subjects: Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Invoices; Letters; Obituaries; Receipts (Acknowledgments)

Search Terms: Adam Reigart and Son; Albums; Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; Boston, Massachusetts; Brenner and Reed; Cambridge, Massachusetts; Cape May, New Jersey; Charles C. and J. Watson; Christ Church Burial Ground; Cincinnati, Ohio; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Correspondence; Delaware; Dixon Walker and Company; Earp and Brothers; Finding aids; Grape Hotel; Greene County, New York; H. Behlen and Company; Illnesses; Invoices; J. Walker and Company; John Warden and Sons; Kentucky; Lancaster; Lancaster County Almshouse; Lancaster Bar Association; Lancaster Intelligencer; Lancaster Journal; Lancaster New Era; Lancaster Sunday News; Lane Slaymaker and Company; Letters; London, England; Lower Windsor Twp., York County, Pennsylvania; Lowry and Myers; Luzerne County, Pennsylvania; Manuscript groups; Margaretta Furnace; Marietta Bank; Morning News; Mount Auburn Cemetery; New York, New York; Newspaper clippings; Obituaries; Ohio; Pennsylvania German Society; Pensacola, Florida; Peter Wager and Company; Philadelphia Inquirer; Pratt and Kintzing; Race Street; Receipts; Reeve's Tavern; South Carolina; Southwark, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Spain; St. James Episcopal Church; Union Fire Company; Vintners; Wager and Company; Washington Fire Company; West Point Military Academy; William Noyes and Company; Wine merchants; York Springs Boarding House; York Springs, York County, Pennsylvania; York, York County, Pennsylvania

Extent: 2 boxes, 35 folders, 1.5 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0331

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Related Item Notes: Gig trunk (2003.078); Adam Reigart Collection (MG0122)

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Adam Reigart Jr., John S. Murphy Collection (MG0331), Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Restrictions are noted at the item level.

Copyright: Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org.; Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Accession Number: 2003.078

Other Numbers: MG-331

Classification: MG0331

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Processed and finding aid created by KR. Added to database 8 March 2022.

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Recording oral history : a guide for the humanities and social sciences

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Author: Yow, Valerie Raleigh.

Edition: 2nd ed.

Date of Publication: c2005.

Call Number: 907.2 Y83

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Responsibility: Valerie Raliegh Yow.

ISBN: 0759106541 (cloth : alk. paper); 075910655X (pbk. : alk. paper)

Author: Yow, Valerie Raleigh.

Edition: 2nd ed.

Place of Publication: Walnut Creek

Publisher: AltaMira Press,

Date of Publication: c2005.

Physical Description: xvi,398 p. ; 23 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects: Oral history

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 907.2 Y83

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Recording, Audio

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/1f29d9c3-811e-4121-88a8-918119594080

Collection: Oral History Collection

Title: Oral history interview with Emanuel (Max) Paul Peters, World War II veteran

Object ID: OH0001

Date Range: 2004/07/09

230 North President Avenue • Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17603-3125 717.392.4633 • www.LancasterHistory.org Lancaster County Historical Society Oral History Project Interviewee: Emanuel (Max) Peters Interviewer: Beverly Newton Date Recorded: July 9, 2004 Transcriber: Bev Newton Date Transcribed: July

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Collection: Oral History Collection

Title: Oral history interview with Emanuel (Max) Paul Peters, World War II veteran

Description: Veteran's oral history interview with Emanuel (Max) Paul Peters.

Admin/Biographical History: Lt. Col. Peters served in the U.S. Army Air Corps, 642 Bomb Sq., 409th Bomb Group (L) during World War II. He began his military career in 1939 as a communications and camouflage officer. He retired from the Air Force in 1965 as Lieutenant Colonel. Military service 08/03/1939 - 12/25/1965.; DOB 11/14/1920; DOD 04/24/2014. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/128641364/emanuel-paul-peters

Date Range: 2004/07/09

Creation Date: 9 July 2004

Date of Interview: 2004-07-09

Creator: Peters, Emanuel Paul, 1920-2014, interviewee

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

People: Friedman, William Frederick; Peters, Emanuel "Max" Paul; Peters, Margaret Jane Groff

Interviewer: Newton, Beverly

Narrator: Peters, Emanuel (Max) Paul

Other Creators: Newton, Beverly, collector

Subcategory: Need to Classify

Subjects: Oral history; United States. Air Force; United States. Army. Air Corps; Veterans--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County; World War, 1939-1945

Search Terms: Oral histories; United States Air Force; United States Army Air Corps; Veterans; World War II; WWII

Place of Interview: LancasterHistory

Quantity: 1

Object Name: Recording, Audio

Media: Cassette Tape

Length of Interview: 00:33:43

Language: English

Object ID: OH0001

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Notes: Mark Subject; 22:16:00 Worked with William F. Friedman; 22:34:00 Studied Enigma, and Purple Machine; 23:00:00 Worked with integrating sigint and electronic warfare; 24:39:00 Head of electronic warfare division; 24:47:00 Wins Legion of Merit; 25:20:00 Goes to California to work.; 26:00:00 Engineers would go to Stanford to share information.; 28:00:00 Returns with wife to Lancaster.; 29:12:00 Didn't realize importance of new science.; 31:41:00 Describes van belonging to local amateur club.; 00:33:67 Ironville named after iron mines in area; 00:55:20 built radios; 01:05:43 Joined Boy Scouts; 01:45:58 Listened to Berlin, Germany on his homemade radio; 02:14:02 Used old parts to make his radios; 02:31:57 Max put his radio on his bicycle; 03:20:20 Joined military in 1939; 04:43:40 Going through jungle in Panama; 04:53:29 Recalls going down river in canoes with alligators close by; 05:19:25 Went to OCS; 05:34:96 Sent to Florida - Tampa International Airport; 06:07:15 Radar Officer on SCR 270; 06:32:21 Transferred to Oklahoma; 07:20:68 Crosses ocean on ship named Martinia; 08:14:00 Was part of convoy. Martinia leaves convoy.; 09:36:90 In England. First mission can't find France (weather).; 09:46:70 Returning aircraft low on fuel. "Mayday" heard often.; 10:01:49 Pilots could see water towers in States. Can't do same in Europe.; 10:48:80 Learned to trust equipment. Found France on 2nd mission.; 11:12:00 Could tell weather by amount of signal received at base.; 11:28:00 "Spoofing" stations on base.; 12:10:00 D-Day.; 12:20:00 Practiced deception often before D-Day.; 12:50:00 Painted black and white stripes on aircraft.; 13:13:00 General Patton was decoy for D-Day.; 15:00:00 "G-equipment"; 15:55:00 Used smoke to designate target; 16:23:00 "No-ball" target; 16:33:00 "no-ball" target signified German V-1 rocket plane; 17:22:00 Wind shifted. Bombs dropped on friendly troops. Gen McNair victim.; 17:38:00 Started infantry and aircorp exchanges.; 17:44:00 River crossing; 18:14:00 "Cat eyes".; 19:36:00 Strafed by Me 109.; 20:28:00 Returns to states. Goes to F & M.; 21:59:00 Gets job at Arlington Hall, Virginia

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Classification: OH0001

Description Level: Item

Custodial History: Database record revised by HST, 20 July 2022.

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Recording, Video

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/244047eb-0a5d-4090-bb4b-532326554875

Collection: Oral History Collection

Object ID: OH0165

Date Range: 2006/10/17

Lancaster County Historical Society African-American Veterans Oral History Project Interviewer: Carole LeFever Interviewee: Sydney Bridgett Location: home of Sydney Bridgett Subject: African American-American Legion Post 780 Date of Interview: October 17, 2006 Transcription Date: January 21, 2009

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Collection: Oral History Collection

Description: African American Veterans Oral History interview with Sydney Bridgett Sr. Bridgett discusses how the African American-American Legion Post 780 was established in Lancaster County.

Date Range: 2006/10/17

Date of Interview: 2006-10-17

Creator: Bridgett, Sydney Sr., 1925-2016, interviewee

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

People: Bridgett, Sydney, Sr.; LeFever Carole; Shugar Miles

Interviewer: LeFever, Carol

Narrator: Bridgett, Sidney

Subjects: African American veterans; African Americans; Oral history; Veterans

Search Terms: African American American Legion Post 780; African American Veterans; African American Veterans Oral History; Oral histories; Persons of color; Veterans

Place of Interview: Home of Sidney Bridgett

Object Name: Recording, Video

Length of Interview: 1:00:36

Object ID: OH0165

Notes: Mark Subject; 0:05:08 First annual military ball held at Crispus Attucks Comunity Center; 0:05:38 Orginal program from where the charter was presented; 0:07:31 Contains three chapter verses of the Negro Naitonal Anthem and call to order

Classification: OH0165

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Oral history projects in your classroom

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15061

Author: Wood, Linda P.

Date of Publication: c2001.

Call Number: 907.2 W876

Responsibility: Linda P. Wood.

Author: Wood, Linda P.

Place of Publication: Carlisle, PA

Publisher: Oral History Association,

Date of Publication: c2001.

Physical Description: iv, 88 p. : forms ; 28 cm.

Series: Practices in oral history

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 56-58).

Subjects: Oral history

Additional Corporate Author: Oral History Association.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 907.2 W876

Recording, Audio

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/f2807863-4cdc-4df0-b217-325843396158

Collection: Oral History Collection

Object ID: OH0025

Date Range: 2006/03/17

Lancaster County Historical Society Oral History Project Interviewee: Joe Myers Interviewer: Barry Rauhauser Date Recorded: Transcriber: Philip L. Moyer Date Transcribed: Interviewer: Well I always like to start off with the basics, and that is to just get an idea more about you. Were you born in

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Collection: Oral History Collection

Description: Oral history interview with World War II veteran and Baseball enthusiast, Joe Myers

Date Range: 2006/03/17

Date of Interview: 2006-03-17

Creator: Myers, Joe, interviewee

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

People: Eckhart, Howard; Myers, Joe

Interviewer: Rauhauser, Barry

Narrator: Myers, Joe

Subcategory: Need to Classify

Subjects: Oral history

Search Terms: Oral histories

Place of Interview: LCHS

Quantity: 1

Object Name: Recording, Audio

Media: Cassette Tape

Length of Interview: 00:50:02

Language: English

Condition: Fair

Object ID: OH0025

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.

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Recording, Audio

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/af8836b0-266d-4bdf-90f1-499153112971

Collection: Oral History Collection

Object ID: OH0031

Date Range: 2004/07/30

Lancaster County Historical Society Oral History Project Interviewee: Jessie and Dr Howard Eckhart Interviewer: Bev Newton Date Recorded: Transcriber: Bev Newton Date Transcribed: July 30, 2004 Bev: My name is Beverly Newton, and today we’re interviewing Howard and Jessie Eckart. Howard: Eckhart

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Collection: Oral History Collection

Description: World War II veteran and F&M College alumni, Dr. Howard Eckhart

Date Range: 2004/07/30

Date of Interview: 2004-07-12

Creator: Eckhart, Howard, 1925-2014, interviewee

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

People: Eckhart, Howard

Interviewer: Newton, Beverly

Narrator: Eckhart, Howard, 1925-2014

Subcategory: Need to Classify

Subjects: Oral history

Search Terms: Oral histories

Place of Interview: LCHS

Object Name: Recording, Audio

Media: Videotape

Length of Interview: 00:31:24

Language: English

Condition: Fair

Object ID: OH0031

Notes: Contact ID Mark Subject; 31 00:00:11 Intro of Jesse and Howard Eckhart; 31 00:00:22 Jesse was civilian flight instructor (WW II); 31 00:00:33 Jesse's father started first airport in Lancaster; 31 00:00:54 First airports were grass fields; 31 00:01:07 Jesse's father taught her to fly.; 31 00:01:13 Jesse soloed on 16th birthday in 1940; 31 00:01:25 She soloed and instructed in single engine aircraft; 31 00:01:36 Older sister Helen invited to join WAFS; 31 00:01:50 Helen was not interested; 31 00:01:51 Jesse invited to be flight instructor at WAF school; 31 00:02:09 Jesse stayed home and became a flight instructor; 31 00:02:18 Jesse quit college (Penn State) after war started; 31 00:02:35 Jesse worked for father in Navy instruction program; 31 00:03:02 Training for pilots not unique to Lancaster.; 31 00:03:12 Aircraft used: examples N3N, Stearman; 31 00:03:23 Training equivalent to private pilots license; 31 00:03:34 Restriction on travel. Trainees could not do cross country flights; 31 00:03:58 Navy training had five students in a class (all male).; 31 00:04:15 Each class lasted five months.; 31 00:04:39 Howard joined navy at age 17; 31 00:04:46 Had been at F & M the year before.; 31 00:04:53 Volunteered for the draft board. Enlistments closed.; 31 00:05:06 Went to boot camp in New York state.; 31 00:05:24 Went to Treasure Island California; 31 00:05:39 Volunteered for submarine duty; 31 00:05:43 Went to New London, Connecticut for submarine school.; 31 00:06:00 Captain Bill Hazard and Howard were first two people assigned to SS324; 31 00:06:06 Went to sea for two week shakedown cruise.; 31 00:06:11 Went along eastern coast of U.S. Sub ahead of them was sunk by by Air Force B-25.; 31 00:06:22 Proceeded then at night on the surface.; 31 00:06:30 Went through Panama Canal to Hawaii then to Subic Bay Phillipines; 31 00:06:49 Christmas Day 1944 sub sank first Japanese ship; 31 00:06:55 Navy had broken Japanese radio code; 31 00:08:40 Had rooms in town. All expenses paid for three weeks.; 31 00:08:52 Has pictures of his navy days.; 31 00:09:22 Sank ships in bay at capital of Java.; 31 00:07:01 Intercepted and sank Japanese troop transport; 31 00:07:27 Destroyers depth charged Howard's sub for ten hours.; 31 00:07:38 Captain Hazard put a CO2 bottle in a torpedo tube and launched it.; 31 00:07:46 Japs followed trail of CO2 bottle and Hazard backed away losing Jap ships; 31 00:07:54 Lombk Straits.; 31 00:08:27 Had liberty in Australia; 31 00:08:34 Received their back pay, and had food not available on sub; 31 00:09:37 Smokey Roberts (from Lancaster) took Howard to sinking of SS324 in the 1980s.; 31 00:10:07 Howard went to Baltimore. Had to show demolition crew where to place charges.; 31 00:10:22 Maryland Department of Fish and Game wanted sub to create reef.; 31 00:10:50 Twenty six former crew went on party boat to watch sinking nine miles off coast of Maryland (Ocean City).; 31 00:10:58 Howard has a tape of sinking.; 31 00:11:12 Crew of sub cried when it sank; 31 00:11:27 Howard was a oral surgeon for 38 years; 31 00:11:39 Howard and Jesse's son has his practice now.; 31 00:11:56 Jesse's father supported her in her flying; 31 00:12:12 Jesse and her sisters all had to learn to fly before learning to drive a car.; 31 00:12:29 Jesse's dad taught her how to hunt and do other things.; 31 00:12:55 Jesse went hunting for deer and small game.; 31 00:13:08 Howard and Jesse have three sons.; 31 00:13:29 Jesse did fly cross country (ferrying airplanes).; 31 00:14:17 Jesse flew whenever there was a free plane at the airport.; 31 00:14:32 Flew out to Kansas by herself.; 31 00:14:40 Had to come back on train.; 31 00:15:00 Sister Helen was also a flight instructor.; 31 00:15:25 Youngest sister Carolyn did learn to fly.; 31 00:15:50 Stayed in contact. Got mail and pay when sub was in port.; 31 00:16:04 Home port was Perth, Australia.; 31 00:16:26 Sea captain had brought rabbits to Australia years before.; 31 00:16:29 Rabbits had no natural enemies in Australia.; 31 00:16:39 Rabbit population so bad that farmers had to bury fences in ground to keep them from crops.; 31 00:16:46 Farmers asked sailors to come and shoot rabbits to cut population; 31 00:16:50 Sailors used .30 caliber semi-automatic rifle; 31 00:16:56 Howard shot sixty rabbits in one day.; 31 00:17:00 Did not eat rabbits. Just left them lay.; 31 00:17:34 Left service and came back to F & M. Had G.I. Bill; 31 00:18:13 Howard was in the reserves.; 31 00:18:24 Howard would go to Philadephia Navy Yard once a month.; 31 00:18:45 Received orders to go to New London, CT - active duty.; 31 00:18:52 Howard applied for a commission. He had been a Chief Petty Officer.; 31 00:18:58 Commission approved.; 31 00:19:16 Went into Dental Corp; 31 00:19:33 Belong to the VFW in Millersville.; 31 00:19:41 Did belong to Ephrata American Legion.; 31 00:19:48 Has contact with Submarine Veterans of WWII; 31 00:20:15 Howard has tapes of days in navy; 31 00:20:26 Photographs available to make copies.; 31 00:20:41 Jesse also has photos of airport, planes, people.; 31 00:20:51 Jesse talks about their sons.; 31 00:20:59 Her sons can fly. Taught by Jesse's dad.; 31 00:21:06 Michael, oral surgeon in Lancaster, Howie is in insurance, David is in investments around Pottstown.; 31 00:21:23 All her sons have their private pilots license. Howard also has a ATP (air transport pilot) license.; 31 00:21:38 Howard had flown for Eastern until they went broke.; 31 00:21:46 Howard and Jesse have three main ratings.; 31 00:21:59 They have had a progression of planes.; 31 00:22:19 Did not have a plane for some time. Could not afford $15 hangar fee.; 31 00:22:24 Flew brother in laws Tri-Pacer.; 31 00:22:38 Had a four seat Comanche.; 31 00:23:04 Got a six seat Aztec.; 31 00:23:13 Aztec is fully instrumented, with GPS.; 31 00:23:34 "Jesse flew with her father in ""tail-draggers""."; 31 00:24:16 Jesse reluctantly got rid of Luscombe.; 31 00:24:24 Luscombe only had room for a couple of hankerchiefs in baggage compartment.; 31 00:24:33 Observation towers during WWII; 31 00:25:31 "Closed area of east coast ""Violet Defense area""."; 31 00:26:17 Closed area came in about 100 miles from coast.; 31 00:26:32 Towers were manned by trained observers. Observers attended a class in aircraft identification.; 31 00:26:59 Jesse did see these observers at the airport. They had their own uniforms; 31 00:27:24 Jesse's english teacher was one of the observers.; 31 00:27:31 He was later principal of McCaskey High School.; 31 00:28:04 About ten to twelve instructors at airport.; 31 00:28:14 About 25 at Carlisle.; 31 00:28:24 Training program ended about three months before end of war.; 31 00:28:53 Instructor input into trainees log book affected where they were assigned.; 31 00:29:19 What is NMI? No Middle Initial; 31 00:29:49 Howard was fortunate to get into subs. Only a few taken. Paid well. Close knit group.; 31 00:30:16 Four cooks on sub. Howard got shift that coinsided with baker finishing.; 31 00:30:56 Modern subs like plush Pullman car; 31 00:31:09 closing.

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Collection: Oral History Collection

Object ID: OH0058

Date Range: 2005/09/28

Lancaster County Historical Society Oral History Project Interviewee: Mrs. Wagner Interviewer: Unknown Place of Interview: Date of Interview: Transcriber: Katie Fichtner Date of Transcription: 09/28/2005 Edited by: Narrator: Mrs. Wagner, first of all, I’d like to ask you have you always lived in

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Collection: Oral History Collection

Description: Last Time the Liberty Bell was in Lancaster; Operation Remember

Date Range: 2005/09/28

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

People: Wagner, Edna

Narrator: Wagner, Edna

Subcategory: Need to Classify

Subjects: Oral history

Search Terms: Oral histories; Liberty Bell

Object Name: Recording, Audio

Media: Cassette Tape

Length of Interview: 00:07:21

Language: English

Condition: Fair

Object ID: OH0058

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.

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