Pearl Harbor came along and we all grabbed our suitcases and went over to the Portsmouth Navy Yard and we said, "We quit school, if we join the Marine Corps how soon can we get out of town?" He says, "Shift that suitcase over to your left hand, but don't set it down, and sign here," and off we went.ĭB: All eight of us. They hadn't bombed Pearl Harbor yet and we were going to quit school and go to Canada and join the Royal Air Force. My sister and I are the only survivors.ĭB: Eight of us, from our class, not related, quit in our junior year to join the Marine Corps in the war. It wasn't all that bad, you know, we were poor as a church mouse just like everybody else, but nobody knew it.ĭB: Yes, I have five, including myself and my sister Christine was the oldest and she died of cancer and the next one was my brother, Bob, he was retired Navy in World War II, and then, my sister Marion who is still alive and myself and my brother Allan.
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You depended on deer meat in the wintertime and what not, people knew how to can foods and you got through the winter in that fashion. SH: Can you describe where you grew up in Maine for us?ĭB: Belt-buckle deep in snow in the wintertime most people young and old hunted.
SH: Is your great-uncle buried in Maine?ĭB: My mother's uncle-I don't know where he is, probably in South Paris, Maine, yes, because it's where he joined up. They got this job due to the fact that they rejoined the Army after their enlistment was up and the war wasn't over, so they rejoined and they picked these men out and it has an inscription on their gravestone stating this fact that they were Lincoln's pallbearers. There were four northern soldiers that took him back. When Lincoln got shot, they put him on a train and took him back to Illinois. One claim to fame I have is my mother's uncle was one of Abe Lincoln's pallbearers. ĭB: There were no men born into the clan, you joined another clan. JC: What can you tell us like your mother's family history?ĭB: Mother's name, maiden name was Durgin, and her mother's name was Wilson and we belong to that particular clan-the Bishops, the Durgins, the Worsters and the Wilsons. He had another brother that brought me up, Chriss Bishop, and sisters, Blanche, Kate, one other one I can't think of in Old Town, Maine. Anybody that saw them used to call them Fay Jay because they couldn't tell them apart. Dad's name was Jay, his twin's name was Fay. SH: Can you tell us a little bit about his family? Did he have brothers and sisters?ĭB: Yes, and he had a twin brother.
During World War II, he was a foreman at the Portsmouth Navy Yard building submarines. So, he started in sheet metal work, and he was a sheet metal man. What was your father's profession?ĭB: He wanted to be in the medical department, but he had asthma so bad that medicines choked him up so he had to get in some kind of a profession with a dry climate. I have a picture of him in his uniform.ĭB: Well, Dad didn't immigrate. SH: Did he serve in the British Army or the US Army?ĭB. Had to be back in the early 1800s, I would believe, yes. Oh boy, I wouldn't know a date from there. SH: When did the family immigrate to this country?ĭB: That goes back to the Wilsons. My dad was a twin and he was in World War I, he was a medic. JC: What can you tell us about your father's family history?ĭB: My father's family goes back to his father, I'll go back to Edinburgh in Scotland. SH: Do you want to explain the snow drift?ĭB: In Maine we had some formidable snow drifts. To begin just for the record, can you tell me where and when you were born?ĭB: I was born in Presquils, Maine in 1924, December 3rd, in a snow drift.
Bishop on October 8th, 2010 in Clinton, New Jersey with Sandra Stewart Holyoak and Jonathan Conlin. SH: This begins an interview with Donald J.
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