Booth, Lyle Edward (Interview outline, video, and papers), 2007

Booth, Kelsey (Interviewer)

Forest Hills Eastern High School (Ada, Mich.)

Lyle Edward Booth is a WWII Veteran who served in the United States Army from April 10, 1945 to March 30, 1946 in Yokohama, Japan. Although he was stationed in Japan after the end of the war, Booth's experience gives a clear description of the immense poverty and destruction present in Japan by 1945. In November 1945, Booth saw first-hand the aftermath of Hiroshima, which he describes in this interview. Booth shares how older Japanese men had resorted to standing at the end of the soldier's chow lines, quietly begging for scrapes. This interview captures not only the daily struggles facing the American soldiers serving in Japan but also that of the Japanese civilians. Photographs appended to interview outline.

2007-05-31

Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives

Veterans History Project (U.S.)

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