| Interviewee | MARCELLO, Alfred J. (b. 1932) |
| Professions | Educator |
| Interview ID # | OH 1356 |
| Date(s) of interview | |
| Description | Educator. His experiences as a young teenager on the home front in Wrightsville, Pennsylvania, during World War II. His family’s economic situation during the Great Depression; teenage recreational activities before World War II; the town’s reaction to the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor; the establishment of an armed guard at the entrances to the Wrightsville-Columbia bridge, which spanned the Susquehanna River; Council of National Defense; establishment of air raid wardens and the imposition of blackouts; sources of war news; economic improvements as a result of the war; attitudes toward “4-F’ers” and “draft dodgers”; wartime rationing; the sale of the local baseball diamond and its conversion to agricultural land; scrap metal drives; Boy Scout activities; collection of milkweed for the making of life preservers; patriotic themes in local schools and churches; war-related boyhood games; troop convoys; his wartime jobs; wartime leisure activities for adults; town’s reaction to the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt on April 12, 1945; V-J Day celebrations; returning veterans; transition of the town from war to peace. |
| Interviewer(s) | Ronald E. Marcello |
| Physical Description | 75 pp. |
| Terms of Use | Open |
