Interviewed by Brianna Goebel
I interviewed my grandpa John F. Sims and my grandmother Jane I. Sims.
During the war my grandpa was a teenager in England near Lancashire. He was in Southern England during D-day and saw planes flying in and out the whole bombing. He was 17 so he didn’t have the chance to fight. He was a month away when it ended.
He thought very much like Churchill that the bombing on Pearl Harbor was drastic but necessary. It really saved England. Because if it hadn’t have happened the U.S. wouldn’t have entered the war and they saved England.
School was different because a school in Liverpool was closed due to bombing and they had to share buildings. They also had to give up their gym for fitness training for troops. Their social life changed because the military had to build an air way and they took over their house, but they were nice Americans with cigarettes and chocolate. Also the American Forces Network became his favorite channel.
His most memorable moment of World War II was the bombings and how one came within 100 feet of his house. My grandma was quite younger, but she remembers how they entertained soldiers with music, dancing and food.