“Pearl Harbor was December 7th, 1941. Yes, I remember it was a Sunday. Everybody was listening, was told to listen to the radio.  President Roosevelt was going to speak. So, of course, our family was huddled around that radio, listening to President…

“Yes! My family was very Jewish. Although my father had the highest Jewish education, he graduated from one of the finest religious schools in Europe called the Yeshiva. But, for business reasons, except for the high holidays, that’s the only time…

“Well, my father ended up as a peddler selling ladies dresses. And from that, he made enough money to open a small clothing store in the Black business district in Jacksonville.”  “Yes, we actually became aware and acquainted with some Black…

“My father's name was Morris Margol. Originally, Margolis, but once he was in the United States, he opened a small clothing store, and he was advised to drop the I S, which he did. He originally came from a village in Lithuania, Pushalot, Lithuania.…

"I did have a job at the same place where my father worked. But I wasn't really too happy with it. I did hear about Bethlehem Steel, which is outside of Buffalo. It's about 45 miles away. And I felt that, with my education and smarts, I could do…

"The transition didn't seem like too much of a transition. Sure, I needed all new clothes and everything, but thankfully, the GI Bill allowed me to complete four years of college, and possibly that's what I was really aiming for all along. But at an…

“Once the bombs were dropped, we were completely out of the loop. Probably, the folks back home were the first ones to hear about it. People asked how I felt, but there wasn't any big celebration among us. Maybe it's because we'd been through a…

“Yeah, well on the way to the flight line, we always went by truck.  Usually, the gunners would go first to check the amount of ammunition, and then I would leave about an hour and a half later with the officers.  On the way to the flight line was a…

"On one of our POW missions, our military was also in Shanghai. There was a POW camp there, and our mission was to drop food and medical supplies, just before our stop in Okinawa, which was on the flight route. We blew an engine flying there.…

“Our very first mission was the worst one. We flew Nippon Nemesis, which was the first plane. After we completed our mission, our plane was badly damaged. There were 72 holes in the plane and the bomb bay doors wouldn't close. Our pilots said that…