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Interview No. 814, Betty Seabrooke
Interview No. 814, Betty Seabrooke
Combined Interviews
Discusses experience as one of a group of El Paso women sent to San Antonio to learn hot to service aircraft during World War II; tells about her work at Biggs Field and El Paso Municipal Airport refueling planes; discusses social life during the war years especially dances held for servicemen at the service clubs at Ft. Bliss; describes personal encounter with Charles Lindburgh when he flew through El Paso.
Interview No. 815, Helen Wilkins
Interview No. 815, Helen Wilkins
Combined Interviews
Part of World War II Project. El Paso Homefront; biographical information; recalls Fort Bliss payroll pick-up at El Paso National Bank with armed guards and sacks of money; discusses rationing and arrival of troop trains; recalls dances at Liberty Hall and Rec Hall with Big Bands such as Tommy Dorsey; reflects on POWs, Italian camp across the street from Washington Park and the German Camp at Fort Bliss.
Interview No. 813, Rosa Kondo Honda
Interview No. 813, Rosa Kondo Honda
Combined Interviews
Recalls her experiences as one of the few non- Mexicans enrolled at Bowie High School; social activities, economic conditions during the Great Depression; El Paso movie theaters; evidence of discrimination against Mexican by Anglos; reaction of Japanese community to bombing of Pearl Harbor; discusses confiscations of her U.S. identification card by U.S. officials during an attempt to cross the international border to visit her parents in El Paso; subsequent expulsion to Mexico city; Reflects on Japanese detainees; private Japanese school in Mexico city; Reflects on Japanese assimilation into Mexican society; views of the Mexican people.