WEBVTT 00:00:05.639 --> 00:00:07.639 Yeah. 00:00:12.839 --> 00:00:16.107 Right 00:00:16.140 --> 00:00:18.706 Rick, 00:00:18.739 --> 00:00:22.416 This is broadcast number four in the current series of transcriptions for 00:00:22.449 --> 00:00:30.449 Keita are in Phoenix. Howard Pyle speaking. 00:00:30.739 --> 00:00:33.997 Well friends this time. It's going to be a little bit different. I've been 00:00:34.030 --> 00:00:40.057 lucky enough to find four Very interesting negro boys connected with the 00:00:40.090 --> 00:00:46.277 856 aviation engineers here in the vicinity of Manila. And they are as 00:00:46.310 --> 00:00:49.616 eager as beavers to tell the folks at home about just how they're getting 00:00:49.649 --> 00:00:54.476 along. I have had more fun visiting with these fellas than I have had 00:00:54.509 --> 00:00:58.177 visiting almost with any other four boys that I can think of since I've 00:00:58.210 --> 00:01:01.997 been over here. They're full of fun. They're full of conversation. They're 00:01:02.030 --> 00:01:05.406 full of interesting remarks about the things that they're doing over here. 00:01:05.439 --> 00:01:10.697 two of them come from phoenix, No correction. It's Tucson. Two of them 00:01:10.730 --> 00:01:18.046 from Tucson and we have one from Tempe know Scottsdale. That's right. And 00:01:18.079 --> 00:01:21.566 the other one from phoenix, I can't read my notes anymore. The first one 00:01:21.599 --> 00:01:25.717 is corporal Edward e. Davis. Now you get right close uh corporal Davis. 00:01:25.750 --> 00:01:31.346 And give me your address. Right. One box 2 50. And where is that 00:01:31.379 --> 00:01:35.326 Scottsdale? Arizona, that's a great town, you know that. Yes, sir, it's 00:01:35.359 --> 00:01:38.846 fine if I was there now, what would you be doing if you were there now? Oh 00:01:38.879 --> 00:01:43.087 , I probably be up in in phoenix. Having a good time. What do you call a 00:01:43.120 --> 00:01:48.637 good time? Well, probably going to a movie. I'm visiting my girlfriend. Oh 00:01:48.670 --> 00:01:52.816 , you have a girlfriend in phoenix, What's her name? You didn't give that 00:01:52.849 --> 00:01:59.107 to me. Well, her name is Ellery, she's waiting for you. I hope she is. 00:01:59.140 --> 00:02:02.227 Well if she isn't we're going to be sore and we get back there, aren't we 00:02:02.260 --> 00:02:06.846 ? Yes. Do you hear from her pretty regularly pretty regularly? Have you 00:02:06.879 --> 00:02:12.017 been fairly happy out here? Edward? Well I couldn't say I was happy 00:02:12.050 --> 00:02:15.846 because I don't like over here. What is it you don't like about it over 00:02:15.879 --> 00:02:23.077 here? Well it's too much inconvenience. Oh that's very well put, I don't 00:02:23.110 --> 00:02:26.196 know of any better word to use an inconvenience as far as this is 00:02:26.229 --> 00:02:31.006 concerned, It's inconvenient to be this far from home # one isn't it? 00:02:31.039 --> 00:02:34.957 Inconvenient not to have transportation. It's inconvenient kind of to be 00:02:34.990 --> 00:02:38.066 in the army, isn't it? That's right. What are you gonna do when you get 00:02:38.099 --> 00:02:43.566 home Edward? Well I'm gonna try to finish college. Oh have you had any 00:02:43.599 --> 00:02:47.837 college? No, I haven't had in college but I finished high school. And 00:02:47.870 --> 00:02:52.457 where did you go to the grand school? Yes. Um Where do you think you might 00:02:52.490 --> 00:02:57.367 go to college? Tempe or Arizona or somewhere? Well I'll probably go to 00:02:57.400 --> 00:03:00.707 Arkansas State college. That would be good. And what are you going to 00:03:00.740 --> 00:03:04.656 study? Do you have that plant? I haven't planned yet. You make good doctor 00:03:04.689 --> 00:03:09.807 , wouldn't you? Maybe I'm in the medical section now. Well that's good. 00:03:09.840 --> 00:03:13.096 Any message for the home folks? Let's talk to him a minute. You there 00:03:13.129 --> 00:03:18.497 there right there listening to you go right ahead. Hello mom, Dad, I wish 00:03:18.530 --> 00:03:26.217 I could be there with you. I miss you so much. Until that day when I can 00:03:26.250 --> 00:03:32.636 come home to you cereal. Good enough. Thank you very much. Corporal Edward. 00:03:32.669 --> 00:03:36.547 E. Davis and friends. That was right from the heart. I was sitting close 00:03:36.580 --> 00:03:40.897 enough to feel it and I know whereof I speak. All right. We come now to 00:03:40.930 --> 00:03:45.686 Sergeant robert. Foley. Sergeant robert. Foley Sergeant. Give me your 00:03:45.719 --> 00:03:51.837 address around three bucks. 21 Tucson Arizona. And your parents name? Let 00:03:51.870 --> 00:03:55.666 it fall in Henry Foley. And how do you suppose they're getting along about 00:03:55.699 --> 00:03:59.927 now? Oh, fine, fine. I hope they write to you pretty regularly. Regular 00:03:59.960 --> 00:04:05.707 every other day. Do they ever have any advice for you when they're right. 00:04:05.740 --> 00:04:11.256 Well, everything I get, they talks about the goods and everything like 00:04:11.289 --> 00:04:15.237 that and that's what I love. I 00:04:15.270 --> 00:04:20.447 look good. I'll second that motion. I don't blame you a bit, but I haven't 00:04:20.480 --> 00:04:24.707 seen any girls over here that appealed to me quite like the ones at home. 00:04:24.740 --> 00:04:28.767 No, they're not clean. Like the one at home are they know they don't know 00:04:28.800 --> 00:04:31.817 what it is. Do you know what the difference is? I can't figure it out. But 00:04:31.850 --> 00:04:36.217 there's something something different. The areas. Well, do you see 00:04:36.250 --> 00:04:39.277 anything else over here that appeals to you particularly? Do you like the 00:04:39.310 --> 00:04:46.166 country at all? Well, the country, I guess it's all right for the 00:04:46.199 --> 00:04:51.947 Filipinos and the Filipino. But for me, I'd rather be at home? What did 00:04:51.980 --> 00:04:58.207 you leave in Tucson? What kind of work were you doing? Well, I was or far 00:04:58.240 --> 00:05:02.406 you like to farm. Pretty good. Going to go back to it when the war is over. 00:05:02.439 --> 00:05:06.556 The sort of thinking about it. What do you like to grow most that cotton 00:05:06.589 --> 00:05:14.589 crop we like to go crack on peas, corn watermelons. I don't know. That's 00:05:15.689 --> 00:05:21.587 that. Watermelon sounds like I love water. Yes, sir. I like mush melon. 00:05:21.620 --> 00:05:25.556 Some melon, cantaloupe, cantaloupe. Right. Well, I think there's a little 00:05:25.589 --> 00:05:28.796 bit of difference in them. They make good eating anyway. Sure. Come in 00:05:28.829 --> 00:05:36.106 handy about now, wouldn't they? Ice cold. Ice cold. Yes, sir. Well, what 00:05:36.139 --> 00:05:39.496 would you like to say to the folks at home? All right. I got something to 00:05:39.529 --> 00:05:46.796 say. Go ahead. Hello mother and dad. I wish that y'all help me speak. I 00:05:46.829 --> 00:05:52.707 know that you would be glad to and I wish that I was back there with you. 00:05:52.740 --> 00:05:58.496 And I know that y'all would really love to hear me. I have been in the 00:05:58.529 --> 00:06:05.606 856 About two years now and I think it is one of the best units we have. 00:06:05.639 --> 00:06:12.637 We have bill Rhodes and strips and everything else hospital and all sort 00:06:12.670 --> 00:06:19.127 of work like that. I'm really proud of the outfit myself and I know that 00:06:19.160 --> 00:06:24.306 the other boys are to most of them. That's a good speech. Did you rehearse 00:06:24.339 --> 00:06:26.986 that or did you have that Just right on the tip of your tongue? Well, I 00:06:27.019 --> 00:06:31.197 had it to salt on my tongue. I see. Well, you don't need to worry about 00:06:31.230 --> 00:06:34.577 the folks at home being eager to see you. I bet if we could see your 00:06:34.610 --> 00:06:39.067 mother right now, she'd be crying just a little bit. I bet you were too. 00:06:39.100 --> 00:06:42.697 I'll bet. Well, let's see what Sylvester over here asked. Shall we? Thank 00:06:42.730 --> 00:06:47.806 you very much. Sergeant robert. Foley root three bucks. 21 Tucson Arizona. 00:06:47.839 --> 00:06:53.796 And now what is your uh T five Sylvester? Where what's T five T five 00:06:53.829 --> 00:06:58.577 technicians? And at five and fifth grade. Are you a good technical man. 00:06:58.610 --> 00:07:04.106 Well, I'll try to be anyway. What do you do technically? Well, demolitions 00:07:04.139 --> 00:07:09.567 and a welder. That demolitions doesn't sound good to me. Well, uh, it's 00:07:09.600 --> 00:07:12.647 pretty tough. Right? What? You got to have to marry you when you got the 00:07:12.680 --> 00:07:16.277 nerve. Huh? Well, I think I have so far. Well, you certainly are a nimble 00:07:16.310 --> 00:07:19.616 about it anyway. And talking about it. What were you doing at home when 00:07:19.649 --> 00:07:22.856 you came into the service? Well, I was working for the, working at the 00:07:22.889 --> 00:07:28.387 country Club as a waiter. Oh, that's high class company. Well, it is, I 00:07:28.420 --> 00:07:31.397 wouldn't live. That's pretty high class are pretty good money. Pretty good 00:07:31.430 --> 00:07:34.437 money. Yes. So that's one thing I like about it. Nice people. That was 00:07:34.470 --> 00:07:37.757 nice. Always nice people out of the country club. What are you gonna do 00:07:37.790 --> 00:07:41.947 when you get home? Well, I've decided to go into a business some of my own 00:07:41.980 --> 00:07:47.116 , which I haven't quite decided yet, but I'm putting all right. I would 00:07:47.149 --> 00:07:52.296 say pillars in one basket in order to do the thing that I want when I get 00:07:52.329 --> 00:07:56.106 back home. You know exactly what that's going to be. Well, I haven't quite 00:07:56.139 --> 00:08:03.137 decided yet whether it be a restaurant. Uh see a shoe shop restaurant or 00:08:03.170 --> 00:08:07.517 you mean shoe repair shop right now, you'd be pretty welcome at home in 00:08:07.550 --> 00:08:11.536 the shoe repair capacity. I'm quite sure we're our restaurants either for 00:08:11.569 --> 00:08:15.837 that matter. What are you gonna say to the folks? Well, we're well, I 00:08:15.870 --> 00:08:21.507 would say hello to my mother and father and also a very good friend. 00:08:21.540 --> 00:08:25.166 Mr wright mr Rice. Yes, she's my memory is better than you saying he is. 00:08:25.199 --> 00:08:31.517 And also uh a little little girlfriend pal, I'd rather say her name is uh 00:08:31.550 --> 00:08:38.417 mr upper Fleming age age. She was about 18 now. Thanks. Pretty pretty. 00:08:38.450 --> 00:08:42.256 Very pretty. Oh yes. Well if she has nice and white teeth as you have, she 00:08:42.289 --> 00:08:46.116 must be a homer. Thank you very much. All right, well thank you a lot. 00:08:46.149 --> 00:08:51.047 Sylvester where the address is? 5 35 east jefferson phoenix and the 00:08:51.080 --> 00:08:56.937 friend he mentions especially as Mr H. H Rice. T five Sylvester wear a 00:08:56.970 --> 00:09:02.037 great boy. And now we come to corporal Willie Hill. That's a good name. 00:09:02.070 --> 00:09:08.157 Willie koppel Well a Hill 9 14 south salary to Tucson. Arizona. Tucson's 00:09:08.190 --> 00:09:12.126 a long ways from here. You know, we've run into a lot of boys from Tucson. 00:09:12.159 --> 00:09:17.957 Yeah. Yes, sir. And they all say the same thing array for Tucson. Did you 00:09:17.990 --> 00:09:23.217 go to school there? Let's see. Did you know the Batiste boys? Great guys 00:09:23.250 --> 00:09:27.266 weren't. I never saw a better football players and tracking men in my life. 00:09:27.299 --> 00:09:32.646 Did you, did you ever play football down there? You did a lot of watching 00:09:32.679 --> 00:09:36.787 notice. I bet you were the loudest. Holler in this time. Did you graduate 00:09:36.820 --> 00:09:40.496 down there? Didn't quite graduate. You're gonna go back to school. But I 00:09:40.529 --> 00:09:44.016 thought, hey, we think about going back. Well, the army sort encourages 00:09:44.049 --> 00:09:47.937 that, you know, that's right. Sure you'd be a lot wiser and getting along 00:09:47.970 --> 00:09:51.756 in the world after it's over. If you do go back to school, what would you 00:09:51.789 --> 00:09:55.636 like to say to the folks at home? Willie? Well, I just like to tell me for 00:09:55.669 --> 00:10:00.307 the hello and hope you're listening. Glad to cut me when I come home. I 00:10:00.340 --> 00:10:04.957 hope you will help all of them as well. You look well enough. Willy look 00:10:04.990 --> 00:10:10.087 pretty well. I hope you just naturally the rugged type, I guess. All right 00:10:10.120 --> 00:10:15.207 , well, thanks a lot. Corporal Willie Hill from 9 14 South santa rita in 00:10:15.240 --> 00:10:21.236 Tucson. Arizona. The father is mr Oscar Hill folks, I've enjoyed it. And I 00:10:21.269 --> 00:10:27.177 hope you have to. These fellas are the essence of home. The towns they 00:10:27.210 --> 00:10:33.246 represent are as close to them, almost as the clothes on their back. They 00:10:33.279 --> 00:10:38.096 remember very well, and as you have heard their personal greetings to the 00:10:38.129 --> 00:10:41.996 families at home and to their friends, you can know that it came from the 00:10:42.029 --> 00:10:45.167 heart. I've enjoyed meeting them and I'm sure you have enjoyed their 00:10:45.200 --> 00:10:50.567 microphone personalities and the uh way in which they have greeted you 00:10:50.600 --> 00:10:53.736 from the heart of the Philippines and the pacific area, they'll go on to 00:10:53.769 --> 00:10:57.646 the war. The war will go on until it's finished. But one of these days 00:10:57.679 --> 00:11:02.207 we'll all be home and when we get there, you better be waiting for us 00:11:02.240 --> 00:11:07.960 until then. Howard Pyle turning the microphone back to fred Macpherson.