Yakima

[Interviewed by S. L. Sanger, from Working on the Bomb: An Oral History of WWII Hanford, Portland State University, 1995] I was living in Yakima, and they were advertising for help at Hanford. So a friend and I decided to go over. We went to Pasco, and signed in. They took our fingerprints and family […]

[Interviewed by Robert W. Mull, from S.L. Sanger’s Working on the Bomb: An Oral History of WWII Hanford, Portland State University, 1995] It came like a bombshell. They announced they were taking the whole valley. For what? We didn’t know. At that time, the farmers were short of money and didn‘t have any place to go, […]

[Interviewed by S. L. Sanger, from Working on the Bomb: An Oral History of WWII Hanford, Portland State University, 1995] Sis and I got on a bus in Coffeyville, Kansas, in August of ‘43 and we landed in Pasco. The bus depot was right in the center of this teeny-weeny little town and these weird-looking […]