| Tape Number: |
WCHFT002 |
| Title: |
WW2 Home front interview with Marge Miley #2 |
| 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: |
Derks, Mik//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 WCHFT002
02:00:28;21 02:00:36;02 [00:00:07:11] WCHFT002
:keywords:
World War II
Home Front
Marge Miley – interview
continued
Interview conducted on November 21,2002
former Manitowoc Herald editor
industries
air raid drills
coffee sugar rationing
side launches
victory gardens
submarine
navy
shipbuilding
shoot date: 11-21-2002
transfered from Hestad laptop: March 2004
02:00:36;03 02:01:48;12 [00:01:12:07] WCHFT002
:Other Industries:
M - I forgot that. I'm trying to figure out here...Mirro made, or the aluminum goods made...are you starting? (Q-Yeah.) Okay. (Q-Read through that?) Yeah, I was mentioning before that Lakeside Packing Company processed a lot of food for the military. And the White House Milk Company here in town was a condensery. It made condensed milk, and they put that up in little metal cans and they...the cans had to be khaki-colored so that out in the field the shiny tin can wouldn't attract anybody, like the enemy. So they had all these little khaki-colored cans that they shipped the condensed milk out to the military. I didn't know about that then; somebody told me about that since. And Kahlenberg engines in Two Rivers, which is still in existence, made diesel engines and things for somebody.
02:01:48;12 02:02:06;15 [00:00:18:01] WCHFT002
:civil defense:
We had air raid drills. I wasn't a warden in our block or anything. They had...they would have drills where you were supposed to not have any lights shining through. And they would go around and they had a civil air patrol that they...all these things are just coming back; it's been a long time. (Q-Read through those?) Sure. I've done a good deal of public speaking in my life but I've always had everything written out completely so that I wouldn't be misquoted (laughing) except the question period at the end. That's where a lot of lead stories came out of (laughing.)
02:02:06;15 02:02:48;11 [00:00:41:26] WCHFT002
:jokes around:
all these things are just coming back; it's been a long time. (Q-Read through those?) Sure. I've done a good deal of public speaking in my life but I've always had everything written out completely so that I wouldn't be misquoted (laughing) except the question period at the end. That's where a lot of lead stories came out of (laughing.)
02:02:48;11 02:02:56;17 [00:00:08:06] WCHFT002
:Q-Civil defense?:
02:02:56;17 02:03:36;28 [00:00:40:09] WCHFT002
:Civil defense Drills:
M - Well I remember the...there were wardens, and we had drills, but I don't think...not everybody took them terribly seriously. But Manitowoc, we were always kind of told we'd be a target, because of the submarine program and the war time manufacturing at all these other plants. And...but of course it never happened. But we were...I think the streetlights all went out at eleven o'clock at night so they could save on electricity and things like that, and of course it was very dark. (Q-Blackout drills?) Yeah, I don't...we didn't have blackout curtains. I think you just simply turned the lights out.
02:03:36;28 02:04:11;27 [00:00:34:27] WCHFT002
:civil air patrol:
(Q-Civil air patrol?) I think those were just civilian pilots who did some...I don't know if that's what they were called at that point or not. The CAP was...they used to help...later I remember they helped with rescuing on the lake and stuff, if anybody had to be rescued, but I don't know if that was really a war time thing or not. I can't remember.
02:04:11;27 02:04:21;15 [00:00:09:18] WCHFT002
:Q-LST?:
02:04:21;15 02:05:43;22 [00:01:22:05] WCHFT002
:Ships and Navy:
M - I never saw them, but I've seen the pictures of them, and they built these...the Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company was the lead, the lead uh, yards on that and they...I think they built 38 of them here, or 45, something like that, and they were the crafts where the front end dropped down and the tanks could be driven off the boat. And then there were the ones where they landed personnel, the military personnel, I forgot what their initials were. But they built those here and at Sturgeon Bay and at several other smaller yards. But that picture that I showed you of them practicing on the beach north of Manitowoc, I never saw that. But I think they kept this all under wraps too when they were doing it. Nobody had advance notice that it was...except the official shipyards photographer, navy photographer. |
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| Description Type: |
Log
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| Format Aspect Ratio: |
4:3
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| Format Generations: |
Moving Image/Original Footage
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| FormatLocation: |
Media Library |
| Duration: |
00:05:070;00 |
| Format Colors: |
Color
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| Genre: |
Interview
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| Language: |
eng
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| Date Of Record Release: |
2009-11-04 09:54:07 (W3C-DTF) |
| Date Record Checked: |
2009-11-04 |
| 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: |
2009-11-04 09:49:07 (W3C-DTF) |
| Identifier: |
http://wptmedialibrary.wisc.edu/SPT--FullRecord.php?ResourceId=455 |
| Date Last Modified: |
2010-01-14 09:48:12 (W3C-DTF) |
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