NHF_WC_2016_Martin_Fenton
Creation: 2016 June 21
Fenton L. Martin was born in 1928 in the town of Portsmouth, Virginia. Being in high school when the war began, he discusses his and his family’s experiences with rationing and gardening, his reactions from Pearl Harbor and VJ Day, and the changes that occurred in the Portsmouth community as a result of the war. He also worked in the Norfolk Navy Yard during the last few months of the war, and discusses his work as an electrical draftsman and his work on the presidential yacht-to-be, the U.S.S. Williamsburg.
Digital
English
1h 12m 39s
Fenton Martin, Interview, National Home Front Project, Washington College, Chestertown Maryland
Interview was recorded by Andrew Darlington and Michelle Ramstack 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