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SECTION ONE: Personal information

• What is your name?
• Where were you born?
• When were your born?
• Who were your parents?
• What were the names of your bothers and sisters?
• Were you married at the time you were in the service? To Whom?
• What are the names of your children and tell a little about each/grandchildren?




SECTION TWO: Entering the service

• In what branch of the service did you serve?

2. Did you enlist or were you drafted?

3. What were your feelings about going into the service?

4. How did you get to Basic?

5. On what date did you leave for Basic Training?

6. Were there any farewell parties, etc.?

7. Where did you go for Basic Training?

8. What memories do you have about this period?

9. When did you enter Basic and when did you leave?

10. How old were you when you were in Basic?

11. Did you know any other soldiers from your home town at Basic.

12. What was the most difficult part of Basic?

Was your training sufficient?

13. After leaving Basic, where did you go and for what type of training? Tell all the different bases to which you were assigned and what unit you were with at each one.

14. Did you always stay with the same unit?

15. What stories can you tell about Basic and going from one base to another.

16. When did you leave Basic and what was your rank at that time?.

17. What else do you recall and feel was memorable about Basic?

18. Do you recall your Drill Instructor's name? What did you think of him?

19. Did you or your friends ever get KP?

20. What was the most important thing you gained from Basic?

SECTION THREE: Combat

1. When did you leave for combat?

• To what unit were you assigned?
• What were your ranks throughout your service career?
• How did you get to your combat area? If it was a ship, do you recall the name?
• Did your unit assignment change? Why?
• Were you part of any invasions? Where? When? Were you a replacement?
• What was the chain of command in your unit? Did it change? Why?
• What do you remember about the food you ate?
• In what battles were you involved?
• What were your responsibilities?
• How did you feel about your unit?
• Were the officers "good" officers? Were they well trained?
• What was your units' nickname?
• How many men were in your unit at the beginning?
• How many survived the war?
• What stories do you recall that you believe Americans need to know about.
• Are there any buddies that you had who did not survive whose stories you want to tell?
• Where were you Pearl Harbor Day?
• Where were you the day the atomic bomb was dropped?
• Where were you when the war ended?
• When were you finally discharged?
• Do you attend reunions of your unit?
• Who is a person you would like to contact that you have not been able to see?
• Did you receive any medals? Could you related the circumstances?
• How did you feel about the job you had to do?
• Were you ever captured?
• Did you ever capture enemy soldiers?
• How did your fighting affect your life-values-goals?










SECTION FOUR: Returning home

1. When were you discharged?

2. How did you return home?

3. What was good about being home?

4. What was difficult about adjusting to being home?

5. Have you shared your experiences with your family?

6. Do you have any pictured/mementos of the war?

7. Could you give a time line of your whereabouts during your war experiences and approximate dates? Any experience you want to share or teach would be appreciated.

Three Days of Preliminary Library Work