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Show HARRY A. MOYER November 22,2002 BEN: Do you recall where you were that Sunday of Pearl Harbor? Any certain memorie of that day, at all? HAR: Yeah, we were out at a park playing touch football, that type of thing. BEN: And then did someone just happen to hear it and then? HAR: Yeah, later on, yeah. BEN: How did that change things- well, obviously you got called to active duty pretty soon there after, I guess. HAR: Well, everybody was pretty incensed about Pearl Harbor, there's no doubt about it. You know, they had all kinds of adjectives: The Japs ... I think that was one of my anger spots, too, because after ... You know, I was involved in the A VG mentally, and Scott's God is my Co-Pilot- I thought that was pretty impressive at the time. And there's a lot of movies going on about that time; there's a lot of emotion in it. And of course, at Pearl Harbor, immediately everybody was pretty damn ticked off. Yeah, it was low, though. They had an emotional time against the J aps, you know. BEN: You were all ready to go, though, and they had your paper work that helped you to be ready to go, too. So I guess you were 21, then, alright. Where did they take you, where did you have to call, where did you have to officially report to? HAR: We went to Montgomery, Alabama at Maxwell Field. They did not have the facilities for us there so we were first quartered in an old cotton mill building. There we stayed for three- four weeks getting uniforms, indoctrinated, etc., and were not allowed off the grounds at all except for training exercises. Then we were transferred to Gunter 8 |
