| Interviewee | KARR, Anne Pearsall (b. 1923) |
| Interview ID # | OH 1180 |
| Date(s) of interview | |
| Description | Her experiences on the homefront during World War II. Youth in Elgin, Illinois; effects of Depression on Pearsall family; college at Iowa State; courtship with Kenneth Karr, her future husband; reaction to Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor; changes on Iowa State campus after American entry into World War II; wartime rationing and Victory Gardens; effects on Pearsall family having a son and daughter in military service; her marriage to Kenneth Karr, early 1944; housing shortage in Corpus Christi, Texas, during World War II; birth of their daughter; wartime entertainment; experiences as a military wife; attitudes toward the Japanese; husband's training as a naval air cadet at Corpus Christi Naval Air Station. |
| Interviewer(s) | Sarah Canby Jackson |
| Physical Description | 96 pp. plus documents (4 pp.) |
| Terms of Use | Open |
