Synopsis of oral history interview with George Laursen

              Video Log
George Laursen
World War II
United States Army Air Corps.
Born: June 6, 1922
Interview Date: July 29, 2009
Interviewed By: Gregg Cerosky
00:00:00 Introduction
00:01:25 Enlistment story (Too thin for the Navy, so he went across the street and the Army did).
00:02:15 Basic training in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
00:02:30 Glenn Miller Orchestra story.
00:03:00 Cheneault Field, Illinois, airplane mechanic training.
00:03:30 Kern Field, Utah, “overseas training”.
00:04:20 Camp Kilmer, New Jersey, prior to being shipped to North Africa.
00:04:53 Chicken Pox story.
00:05:00 Trip across the Atlantic to Casablanca, Morocco (February 1943).
00:07:00 Assigned to airfield at Marrakech, Morocco.
00:09:20 Responsible for fueling planes as they traveled to assigned bases of operation in Europe.
00:10:20 Marrakech story.
00:10:50 Prostitutes/brothel story.
00:12:30 Brothel recordkeeping story.
00:13:12 Winston Churchill- Franklin Roosevelt story.
00:15:10 Transferred to Abadan, Iran (April, 1944).
00:16:00 Bahrain Island story.
00:17:40 Transferred to Cairo, fueling facilities (early 1945).
00:20:05 While on leave back in the USA, a B-25 hit the Empire State Building story.
00:20:55 Discharged in September/October 1945 and went to college on the G.I. Bill.
00:21:20 How he kept up with what was going on back home.
00:23:10 Conditions while stationed at Bahrain Island.
00:24:45 On leave in the Holy Land, visiting the sites.
00:26:40 The athlete’s foot story.
00:28:35 Steven’s Institute of Technology story (education through the G.I. Bill).
00:29:45 Work after wartime, Standard Brands.
00:30:35 Work and life experiences after the war.
00:32:00 Retired at age 62 in 1984.
00:34:00 Discussion about the photos in his photo album.
00:35:36 End of Interview.