Catalog ID:
ORH-001-0010
Creator:
Minto, Joseph
Archives Field 21:
Scope & Content:
Oral history interview with Jospeh Minto
World War II veteran and Bridgeport native Joseph Minto describes his life in Bridgeport immediately before the attack by Japan on Pearl Harbor in 1941 when he worked as a wholesale distributor for a bakery and Columbia Records.
He discusses going for a physical exam in New Haven and his subsequent service in the Army when he was drafted. He went into training in Florida, Maryland, and New Jersey and sailed on the converted Queen Elizabeth to Glasgow, Scotland. He eventually crossed the English Channel and battled through continental Europe all the way to Austria and Northern Italy. Minto references the Battle of the Bulge in the Ardennes, the 44th Division, the brutally cold European winter of 1945, the pervasiveness of trench foot, and encounters with German military personnel and aerospace engineer Wernher von Braun.
World War II veteran and Bridgeport native Joseph Minto describes his life in Bridgeport immediately before the attack by Japan on Pearl Harbor in 1941 when he worked as a wholesale distributor for a bakery and Columbia Records.
He discusses going for a physical exam in New Haven and his subsequent service in the Army when he was drafted. He went into training in Florida, Maryland, and New Jersey and sailed on the converted Queen Elizabeth to Glasgow, Scotland. He eventually crossed the English Channel and battled through continental Europe all the way to Austria and Northern Italy. Minto references the Battle of the Bulge in the Ardennes, the 44th Division, the brutally cold European winter of 1945, the pervasiveness of trench foot, and encounters with German military personnel and aerospace engineer Wernher von Braun.
Dates of Creation:
2007-09-16
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