Edward Guy oral history interview, part 1 of 5, August 7, 2004

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Dublin Core

Description

Guy begins the interview talking about his family background, and his father coming from Liverpool and settling on the east coast. He would grow up in uptown New York, playing a lot of football and basketball and attending a variety of different schools. He talks about the holidays his family would celebrate and the potato pancakes that his family used to make. Next, he talks about his experience hearing on the radio that Japan had attacked Pearl Harbor. Shortly after that, he would be drafted into the Army and find himself being inducted before being sent to Fort Dix and then Camp Croft in South Carolina.

Format

video/m4v

Extent

0:28:47

Language

Spatial Coverage

Identifier

2004OH0476_01_Guy

Oral History Item Type Metadata

URL

http://www.goforbroke.org/oral_histories/mp4/476-Guy-Edward-1.m4v

Date of Birth

1923 Dec 01

Location of Birth

War or Conflict

Branch of Service

Entrance into Service

Location of Basic Training

Unit of Service

Index

Yes

Citation

Guy, Edward: narrator et al., “Edward Guy oral history interview, part 1 of 5, August 7, 2004,” Japanese American Military History Collective, accessed April 26, 2024, https://ndajams.omeka.net/items/show/1050679.