Memories of WWII

I was born in 1945 as WW2 was ending. The Battle of the Buldge was taking place. My mother worked at Goodyear during the war making gas masks. My father was a supervisor at Goodyear Aircraft with over 50 machinists under his supervision, many of them women. He was a brilliant man and had a lathe in the basement where he made parts for the Corsair fighters landing gear after his Goodyear job. They were having problems maintaining proper machining tolerances and my father figured out how to do it.

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The only problem, as far as I was concerned, was that I was crying a lot, more than normal. It seems some of my dad’s shavings from his lathe were landing on my diapers in the clothes basket. My mom finally discovered the problem and moved the basket further away. Problem solved. My small sacrifice in the war effort.