it was kind of a transition for the pilots, especially Max: This is early in the war, and we are an emerging nation and the pilots came from all walks of life. They learned to fly and the water tank was a good thing to read. They knew where they were in the States. They didn't really have all the

stationed prisoner of war camps so close to where they were training the actual soldiers. H: Yeah. S: I guess that makes sense though. Yeah, it does say that there. From Oglethorpe, Georgia it was off to Camp Shanks, New York for the relaxed part of the training. H: Oh yeah, you know, when they ask how you

C. Bridgett of the Three Fifty—Thirty Five Twenty First Quartermaster Trucking Company who was the first negro veteran from Lancaster, Pennsylvania to be killed in action in World War II. The elder of two sons of Alexander and Louisa Bridgett, he was born December 21st 1917 at 410 Locust Street and

I went to. Now I have some from the old [Yanks and Roses], and I have a little booklet, I got out there one time, the history of the interstate league. I: Great, I haven’t seen that one yet. J: Of course, I have a whole lot of baseball cards. I’m so glad my mother didn’t let my dad get a hold of any

ahead of us was sunk by an Air Force B-25, so we went down the east coast of the United States, the same as we operated off the coast of Japan. On the surface, only at night and so on, and we went through the Panama Canal and out to Honolulu and from there on we went on out and onto the northern side of

Independence Hall again. And it hasn’t. Up till now, they are talking about taking it away for the Susque…you know the ah…Centennial N: What kind of transportation did you use to get there and back? W: Ah…we walked (laughter) N: How far? (laughter) W: Oh, yes, we walked. We walked from the corner of Marietta

doing business. I: Now I’ll admit to you that there’s at least two years difference in our ages. So that you’re going to have to fill me in on what April, first of all what time period are you talking about when you say April first? H: I’m talking about the period of which I was acquainted from say 1910

like that, not there, there certainly was records management as always, as long as their been intelligent beings on earth, but your span, from 1918 to roughly this time, the seventies, what’s happened, if you had to pinpoint two or three things about the banking? L: Of course the complete change in

engines. Horses pulled the engines from farm to farm and also the thresher from farm to farm and pretty soon they thought: Well, why not let this engine pull itself? So they put a sprocket chain from the engine, the power wheel of the engine, to the drive wheel at the back but they still had the horses to

uncertainty of what was spoken Lefever: March 15th , 2007. I’m Carole LeFever and I’m at the home of Ms. Hazel Jackson, a long-time friend, and this is something I’ve wanted to do for a long time myself—have this conversation about your history, coming to Lancaster, starting maybe even where you came from

. Can you remember some of the things beyond the highligh to fhte wonderful miltary ball some of the things that uh, you feel as a member you gained from it, or some of the things you did? Was it a place to come and heal for some of the soldiers after the war, what, what, how would you describe it while

Transcriber: Miles Shugar [] indicates uncertainty of what was spoken Ruby Wilkerson (W): Ruby M May Wilkerson. Carole Lefever (L): And where were you born, Mrs. Ruby? W: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. L: Oh I was from Harrisburg most of my life as well! And you came to Lancaster about when? W: 19…I forget the