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An Oral History with Barbara DesForges

出版	Center for Oral and Public History California State University, Fullerton, 2010
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=6XGDlAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋An oral history with Barbara DesForges, resident of San Clemente, California, and former United States Marine Corps (USMC) dependent. This interview was conducted as part of the El Toro Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Oral History Project for California State University, Fullerton and the Center for Oral and Public History. The purpose of this interview was to gather information regarding DesForges' experiences at and around El Toro. This interview includes discussion about her early childhood in Los Angeles, California, contracting polio and being treated by Sister Elizabeth Kenny; shares about living with her cousins, Adele and World War II ace fighter pilot, Wilbur "Jack" Jackson Thomas, in a Quonset Hut at El Toro, remembering the base theater, riding the school bus, and making friends on the base; briefly tells about her cousins' courtship and wedding; talks about Jack's career in aviation, speaking about performing in air shows in 1946; tells about Jack's fatal crash into Saddleback Mountain in 1947, talking about her family's grief, the funeral, and Adele's remarriage; shares memories of World War II, discussing rationing and patriotism; comments on her interest in history, speaking about Margaret Mitchell and Gone with the Wind, as well as investigating World War II experiences with her Russian immigrant elementary class; mentions that Charles Quilter (OH 4044.1 and 4044.2) was instrumental in discovering the details of Jack's crash; briefly tells about donating her military collection to MCAS Miramar; comments on the military and the dangers of war. This oral history spans 1940-2010. Bulk dates: 1943-1947, 1980s.