NHF_WC_2016_McDonald_Gerald
Creation: 2016 July 28
Gerald McDonald was born August 25, 1938 in Cincinnati, OH. His father worked as town manager for two of America’s “green towns,” towns built during the New Deal by the Resettlement Administration to house struggling families. Gerald talks about these green towns, about his father’s job as town manager and as a civil defense warden, and about his own life in Green Hills, OH and Greenbelt, MD during and after the war. He also talks about rationing and blackouts, talks about his schooling, and talks about the end of the war.
Digital
English
46m 2s
Gerald McDonald, Interview, National Home Front Project, Washington College, Chestertown Maryland
Interview was recorded by Michelle Ramstack and Andrew Darlington for the Starr Center of the American Experience National Homefront Project
C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience (Washington College)
Oral histories
oral histories (literary genre)
World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects--United States
Oral histories
oral histories (literary genre)
World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects--United States