William M. Sanderlin, Layton, Utah: an interview by Winston Erickson, 27 June 2002: Saving the Legacy tape no. 457

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WILLIAM M. ANDERLIN 27 June 2002 W : I had three aunts down there, and I could stay at any of them any time I want d t I was always welcome. WE: Where did your mother eventually settle? WS: Most of the time she stayed with that aunt, with her sister down on Long Beach. And then later on she went to work at a place called Thermadore, making electrical appliances and stuff like that. And when she did that she moved up to ... well, I think it was South Gate, up in that general area anyhow. That's where the plant was, and she worked there until she just got too old to do it. When she retired at sixty-five, she moved up to a little place that I had bought and fixed up for her in Rialto, California. And she stayed there until she passed away. My wife took care of her about the last six months. WE: And did you stay with your mother, or did you stay with one of your other relatives? WS: Most of the time it was wherever mom stayed, I stayed. WE: Did you get jobs there, in that area? WS: Yes, I went to an aircraft school, and then I went to work for North American Aviation. And I stayed there until I went to the service in about forty-three or forty-... the latter part of forty-two, I think. WE: So you were working in the defense industry, making ... ? What did you do at North American Aviation? WS: Hundreds of items, just little items. Maybe filing something up and down, or riveting something together. Most of them was more like you'd take, say, for instance a fuel tank. Put two halves together and rivet 'em together. Or put a piece of skin around the airplane and lay it up and put rivets, rivet that. I was usually a riveter, and I had a guy 10