Kyle Battershill Interviews Herb Brown
November 25, 2022 App Interview

Battershill interviewed Brown, his grandfather, for the Great Thanksgiving Listen, 2022. Some of the topics discussed are World War 2, the work force, and various family stories.

Richard and Jack Crutchfield – our Beginnings

Richard and Jack remember their father and when he was lost on patrol as a submarine officer during WW2.

Family Chat With Gram

In this interview Skylar High(16) and her grandmother, Susan High(82), discuss honorability, love, and always trusting yourself. Even in difficult time it is imperative to hold on to hope and even in bleak times there are still kind people in...

Phillip Robert Laatsch

Thanksgiving 2015 interview at Glen Meadows Retirement community discussion with Phillip Robert Laatsch. Includes conversation about growing up in Wisconsin, Wisconsin cheese & milk, driving a big rig truck, living and raising a family in Fallston, Harford County, MD. Progress...

A Grandfather's Memory of WWII

I read an except from a book I gave my grandfather many years before he passed away to share memories of his life. This thought on World War II always brings tears to my eyes. He was such a strong...

Eleanor Hertz, 100 years old of Bremerton, WA

Eleanor Hertz is 100 years old and has lived in Bremerton, WA her entire life. Eleanor speaks about her early childhood, living in a Navy town during WW2, including Japanese internment, the most amazing technology in her life (radio), and...

Al Hopson, Cameron Kuo, , , and

World War Two veteran and longtime Watsonville native, Al Hopson tells of his time in the United States Army Air Corps (now called the US Air Force). He enlisted in February of 1943 on his eighteenth birthday. His intention was...

Talking to Grandpa about WWll (and some other stuff)

This is me and my mom talking to Aubrey Wells, my Grandpa, about WWII (and some other stuff, too.)

Seymour “Sy” Reitman tells the story of his World War II experience in the battle of “The Bridge at Remagen", Germany.

In March of 1945 Remagen was the last bridge standing across the Rhine, all the others having been destroyed by German forces. A pivotal World War II event, the battle to protect the bridge from destruction by German forces allowed...

Olga Giordano – Willowood x PC

Pedro Damasceno (17) speaks to Olga Giordano (96). Interview hosted by Pine Crest’s Photography Club at the Willowood Brookdale resident center in Fort lauderdale, Florida. c/o Pedro Damasceno

Franklin Lindsay – Willowood x PC

Pedro Damasceno (17) speaks to Franklin Lindsay (92). Interview hosted by Pine Crest’s Photography Club at the Willowood Brookdale resident center on August 9th, 2017. c/o Pedro Damasceno

Grandpa Pirie’s life

My Grandpa had a very interesting life. I think world war2 play apart in his life such as joining the navy.

John Interview with Grandfather

My grandfather grew up during the Great Depression and is of Greek heritage. In this he tells me how family history, where he grew up, what it was like during the Great Depression, the occupation of Germany, and many other...

Thelma E. Robinson-Bloesing, age 101, as a young adult and running a trucking company in the 1940’s as a woman. (Part 2)

Thelma shared the story of her first marriage, the start of their trucking company, her divorce and eventual sale of her trucking company, her trip to California and the accident that resulted in the unexpected death of her father.