WWII Women Veterans
Stories from World War II Women Veterans Living in the East Valley as told by CGCC Students
How did you feel about the effects of the war in which you served on Americans in the military? How did you feel about the effects of the war on non-Americans?
 

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Narrator: Eileen Guthrie Black
Interviewer Brittany Marlow
 
 
EB: One thing about that Second World War that impressed me was that colored people had more opportunities than they had before in the military. The GI Bill of Rights and the opportunities for schooling that came after that impressed me. The Marshall Plan I thought was wonderful. It was a whole lot better than what happened to the Germans after the First World War. It sounded like the country was growing up a little bit.  
BM: So the effect on Americans was positive? 
EB: I would say so.
BM: Okay, how do you feel about the effects on the war on non-Americans?  
EB: Well for awhile everybody loved us; they seem to have forgotten that now, but in the places back then people would go on accepting whatever we would give them.  
 
Narrator: Betty Nichepor
Interviewer: Rynae Wiggins
 
 
BN: Well, I think so many times the young men came back; they were not treated very well. There was a terrible time where the government was trying to take care of them and a lot of them came back with mental cases that needed help because they were under stress; they didn't know when they would get shot or killed or whatever might happen. But I don't think the government stood by them the way they should have, as they haven't today in time behind our veterans, any of them. I think there's a lot of times that they were lost. They had no jobs, no one would hire them, they all were good working men at the time, but when they got back they didn't get the right respect.

Eileen Guthrie Black in 2005

Location of Japanese Kamikazies