| Tape Number: |
WCHFT001 |
| Title: |
WW2 Home Front interview with Marge Miley #1 |
| Title Type: |
Element
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| Program, Series or Collection Title: |
Wisconsin WWII Stories: Home Front
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| Format: |
BetaSP
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| Creator: |
Hestad, David//Producer
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| Contributor: |
Soetenga, Everett (Butch) //Videographer
Naunas, Tom//Sound Engineer
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| Date Created: |
2002-11-21 |
| Publisher: |
University of Wisconsin Board of Regents//Copyright holder
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| Subject: |
war
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Description:
Tape Number WCHFT001
01:00:57;10 01:01:00;02 [00:00:02:20] WCHFT001
:keywords:
World War II
Home Front
High School
Marge Miley interview
Interview conducted on November 21,2002
former Manitowoc Herald editor
high school
ration books
war bonds
shipyard
submarine
Navy
shipbuilding
aluminum industries
launches
Custerdale
shoot date: 11-21-2002
transfered from Hestad laptop: March 2004
01:01:00;02 01:01:45;16 [00:00:45:14] WCHFT001
:preliminaries:
M - Marge. (Q-Marge? Miley spelled?) M-I-L-E-Y. Good Irish name. (Q-From Manitowoc?) Manitowoc. (Q-Year born?) 1925. Actually I was born in Sheboygan but we moved up here when I was a child. (Q-School here?) From kindergarten on.
01:01:45;16 01:03:00;19 [00:01:14:29] WCHFT001
:Impact of Pearl Harbor during high school:
Q-Here with Marjorie Miley?
(Q-High school years?) Well as a sophomore it was 1940-41. (Q-Pearl Harbor?) Pearl Harbor was in '41. (Q-Memories?) Yes, that was on a Sunday and the paper put out an extra. I brought the copy of the reproduction of the front page of the paper. That was one of the few extras they ever put out. And, oh yeah, that made a big difference in everything, you know, in kids' outlook, you know, for the future and everything else and it...I would have been a sophomore then, when Pearl Harbor. Well, no, maybe I was a junior before...I was a junior, I was just going in for the first semester of my junior year in high school and that...then Pearl Harbor happened and then everything started, the rationing and everything.
01:03:00;19 01:03:46;28 [00:00:46:09] WCHFT001
:sailors in town:
M - It was then...when the submarines were being built, that's when all the submarine crews came to town, cause they trained on the submarines so there was sometimes three or four crews here at one time so there were lots of sailors around town, lots of nice young men. And I was working at the theater at that time, I was a cashier at the Strand Theater and the sailors would bring their girlfriends there and I said they could get in for...an adult ticket was 44 cents, and popcorn was a dime a box, and so you could get in for under a dollar...for 98 cents you could see a movie with your girlfriend and have a box of popcorn.
01:03:46;28 01:04:54;29 [00:01:07:29] WCHFT001
:working to help the war cause:
M - In high school, course we had big projects for selling war bonds, E bonds, and we had lots of special things. There were lots of clubs organized to do things and the kids collected scrap, and they did...but school went on. I mean the sports went on and everything, and the activities. We put on HMS Pinafore for a class musical, or the school musical. That stuff didn't stop. >>>>But in our senior year is when we really noticed it, when the fellows started leaving. And by the time we graduated in June of 1943, 45 of the boys were already in service, or they had...were already enlisted, and they were going in right after graduation. And at our graduation, 32 mothers were there to receive the diplomas for their sons because they were at basic training and couldn't get back. So that was different.
01:04:54;29 01:05:37;00 [00:00:41:29] WCHFT001
:program paper:
M - And then I went to work at the newspaper...
you gonna edit that out...[maybe you could start again...are you getting the paper right now...yeah, a little bit...do you mind if I take your paper away] [laughter}
I don't know why I kept that. [That's all right. It's right here if you need it.] Okay. That was a program I gave. I had slides for that program, but I must have thrown them out. I couldn't find them. [Oh. Okay.] But they were just what the town looked like in the wartime, and how it has changed.
01:05:37;00 01:06:52;18 [00:01:15:16] WCHFT001
:Q-stressful changes during wartime?:
M - Well, it...I don't recall it being stressful. I think >>>> it was an exciting time in Manitowoc, and course as I said, with the thousands of people working at the shipyard, the town was just booming. But we...the first casualty that we heard of was course after we were out of high school, because the first casualties of the war probably were people we didn't know. But the...it changed the whole mood, everything of course was different because of the town changed, and it never quite went back to the little pokey town it was before that....Better take that out [laughter].
01:06:52;18 01:08:22;18 [00:01:29:26] WCHFT001
:Q-Manitowoc before war?:
M - Yes, it was the Depression. >>>> The war brought Manitowoc out of the Depression And of course employment was 100%. I don't think the welfare department had very much work in those days. Except for people that simply couldn't work. So.. |
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Log
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4:3
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Moving Image/Original Footage
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| FormatLocation: |
Media Library |
| Duration: |
00:07:00;00 |
| Format Colors: |
Color
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| Genre: |
Interview
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| Genre Authority Used: |
PBS PODS
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| Language: |
eng
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| Date Of Record Release: |
2009-10-27 15:25:02 (W3C-DTF) |
| Date Record Checked: |
2009-10-27 |
| Format Tracks: |
track 2: right mono
track 1: left mono
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| Format Media Type: |
Moving Image
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| Alternative Modes: |
No Captions
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| Subject Authority Used: |
International Press Telecommunications Council |
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Annotation:
Cataloged as part of the American Archive Pilot Project |
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| FormatIdentifierSource: |
Wisconsin Public Television |
| Date of Record Creation: |
2009-10-27 15:24:06 (W3C-DTF) |
| Identifier: |
http://wptmedialibrary.wisc.edu/SPT--FullRecord.php?ResourceId=453 |
| Date Last Modified: |
2010-01-14 09:48:12 (W3C-DTF) |
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