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Maleeha February 13, 2008 Interview Project

Mr. Keith Gunther is who I interviewed for this project. Mr. Fitzgerald set me up with this interview by introducing me to Mrs. Gunther. I gave her all the questions I had to ask and she took them home to her husband who was in WW2. When she brought the questions back to me, we sat down in her office on February 12, 2008 and she explained to me what her husband wrote. This is how I received all this information. Mr. Gunther was born in 1915 in St. Louis, Missouri. Before WW2, his job was T.V. broadcasting. He put KSD-TV on air everyday. KSD-TV was the first show to ever air. He graduated from St. Louis University, and now has six children. He loves to read, play tennis and play golf.

Mr. Gunther joined the war when he was 25 years old as a gunnery officer on a carrier which is now a war museum in The East River in New York. He mostly served in the South Pacific and the Aleutians. His most vivid memories were the attack by the Japanese, 2 bombs in 60 seconds, Kamikaze attacks, and what surprised him the most was that he saw sailors so panicked, they jumped off the ship. The ship was so big that they couldn’t turn back to save sailors, so unfortunately they drowned. He said the best things of WW2 were all the officers had great spirit especially towards each other, he loved how when they went to San Francisco for repairs, and he just loved the thrill of the war. The bad parts of the war were all the battles and lack of sleep. Mr. Gunther thinks the war changed the U.S. society; women worked in factories for the first time and even minorities received more opportunities. What Mr. Gunther thought was interesting was that there was a ship in the navy with 3000 people aboard, and there were no women on the ships. This was how Mr. Gunther’s experience of WW2 was.