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Wilmington, delaware. My family had a Construction Business there, which was quite old. It is still in business. And i went to school in delaware, i went to the university of delaware. So my history basically was in delaware before i went into the service. Now i tried to enlist in the service the minute we were attacked by japan. But i was colorblind. And i could not get in. But they had what they called the enlisted reserve corps. Which they let College Students go into with the idea that you would serve a basic training and then you would go back to school, and the thinking was maybe this wa...

He was killed cutting logs in the woods. So that first five were very young and my dad ernest jones married my mama and has five more children, but my dad raised all ten of us because they was very, very young when their dad got killed. Basically they were very disciplined, had a seventh grade education. Mom had a seventh grade education but very bright, very brilliant people and one of the ambitions they had, they gave us as we were little kids, he two goals for us, he wanted all of us to be educated and he wanted to see all ten of us in heaven, so he wanted us to be committed to church, hard...

Now, i tried to enlist in the service the minute we were attacked by japan but i was colorblind and i couldnt get in. But they had what they called the enlisted reserve corps, which they let College Students go into with the idea that you would serve a basic training and then you would go back to school. Their thinking was maybe this war wasnt going to go too far. Youd go back to school and start again wherever it left off. I went to try to enlist. I was colorblind. Had to go back. Finally i got in the army but i was restricted for what i could do. I went to texas for basic training. I spent 1...

My family had a Construction Business there, which was quite old. It is still in business. And i went to school in delaware, i went to the university of delaware. So my history basically was in delaware before i went into the service. Now i tried to enlist in the service the minute we were attacked by japan. But i was colorblind. And i could not get in. But they had what they called the enlisted reserve corps. They let College Students go into it with the idea that you would serve a basic training and then you would go back to school, and the thinking was maybe this war wasnt going to go too f...

Cspan radio up. 75 years ago, in the summer of 1945 the United States dropped two atomic bombs on japan, one on here shimon august six and the other are nagasaki on august 9th. And this oral history recorded in 2012, by the national will work to museum, army veteran, eugene disabatino, talks about his assignments to the manhattan project, which included being stationed at loss alamos and working while the bomb dropped over nagasaki. The National World War Ii Museum provided the video. I was born in wilmington, delaware. And basically, i grew up in wilmington, delaware. My family had a Construc...