Interview

[Kevin Callahan]

Hello again. Could you please include your name, years served, and location stationed with the rest of your answers? Thank you for your help.

1. What was your exact job in the war? What duties, power, and requirements came with the job?

2. What was a typical day like for you?

3. How did you feel about your country's decision to join the war?

4. Why did you feel the need to volunteer in the war effort?

5. What were your views on the war before you served, and how did these preconceptions change?

6. Describe the World War II Era and its differences with the New Millenium.

7. Did serving in the war change any of your morals, beliefs, or values? Explain.

8. Is there any one event that stands out in your memory? Describe it.

9. Explain your feelings when you heard the war was over.

10. How did your life change after the war?

11. Describe your opinion on the United States decision to twice use the atomic bomb on Japan.

12. In your eyes, how did this war shape the state of the current world?

13. Anything else?

[Herakles]

I can't answer some of these as I was a child at the end of the war.

Hello again. Could you please include your name, years served, and location stationed with the rest of your answers? Thank you for your help.

1. What was your exact job in the war? What duties, power, and requirements came with the job?

2. What was a typical day like for you?

3. How did you feel about your country's decision to join the war?

It was the right decision. We Australians didn't give a second thought to helping England. At the time we never seriously considered that we would become a target ourselves.

4. Why did you feel the need to volunteer in the war effort?

5. What were your views on the war before you served, and how did these preconceptions change?

6. Describe the World War II Era and its differences with the New Millenium.

Wow! Everyone of my vintage regards the world as a better place then than now. During the war there was much privation - rationing and having to face the death of loved ones etc.

7. Did serving in the war change any of your morals, beliefs, or values? Explain.

Not "did" so much as "how". But this isn't applicable to me.

8. Is there any one event that stands out in your memory? Describe it.

Watching camouflaged planes flying over my school.

9. Explain your feelings when you heard the war was over.

It barely registered with me. I was too young. But at least I had my father back home all the time.

10. How did your life change after the war?

It didn't.

11. Describe your opinion on the United States decision to twice use the atomic bomb on Japan.

Erm, the decision wasn't just the US's to make. It was correct. It ended the war, it meant saving a huge number of Allied lives and it taught the Japanese a lesson.

12. In your eyes, how did this war shape the state of the current world?

It was the final nail in the coffin for England. It caused the collapse of the British Empire. It cleansed Europe of some of its territorial beliefs and it pushed the USA into prominence. There's a good case to argue that WW1 did more to change the world.

13. Anything else?

The war caused the development of much technology that we benefit from now - e.g. radar but there are many other examples.

It advanced the cause of women and American Negroes considerably.

It saw the high point of navies. They have steadily declined ever since. It also saw the aeroplane rise into prominence.

Sorry I can't contribute more. Good luck with your work. I'd be interested in reading your final report.

[Kevin Callahan]

thank you so much!

[Herakles]

My pleasure. I wasn't able to give you much.

I just hope other members get in here and post as well!