INTERVIEW OF FRED DAY
Transcript Number 008

Greetings to you from the friends and veterans of World War II remembered as they share their lives during the turbulent years of 1937 to 1947. Years that changed forever the political and economic thinking and structure of every nation on earth. 

Today the program concerns veterans' who served their country with pride and distinction during World War II. In any branch of service, Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard, or Merchant Marine, they all have a story to tell. Our purpose today is to inform the American public of the sacrifices and experiences of these gallant men. The interview today is from the library at UNCW. This is solely devoted to their military service and experiences which will always be remembered by the citizens of the United States.

INTERVIEWER: What is your name sir?

DAY: Fred N. Day, III.

INTERVIEWER: Where do you live?

DAY: 210 Brettonshire Road. 

INTERVIEWER: Now you can start off with your service, and even before your service, 
your graduation from high school.

DAY: I played on the football team in my school. My school was New Hanover High School. I graduated and the war broke out not long after that. I went ahead and joined up so I could be in the Army instead of being in the Navy, because I was afraid I'd get sea sick on the boats. It was a wonderful time and I enjoyed going through life then. I didn't really mind except leaving and going overseas to Germany and being away from my wife. We hadn't been married very long. When I got over to Germany...

INTERVIEWER: Before that, you probably were inducted. Where did you serve your basic training? 


DAY: Fort Bragg. When I got over there, it looked like the war was going to stop. It finally stopped and the German people and a lot of people thought the Nazis were terrible. The only one that was bad was Hitler. The people were very nice to the soldiers and I used to go to their homes and eat lunch or evening meals with them. I enjoyed going out and visiting with all of the people. Of course, I was used to doing that and it was really good for me.

INTERVIEWER: Can you remember your first day of service at Fort Bragg?

DAY: Well, they fitted me pretty good the first time I put on a uniform. They could fix it if it didn't fit you and they fixed it easily. 

INTERVIEWER: Were there any incidents that happened during training that you can recall?

DAY: No, not really. It was real easy to go through. I didn't see much but everybody was saying it's so bad, but I didn't think so. When you're in the Army, you have to learn to be in the Army. That's all you can do.

INTERVIEWER: Going overseas, where was your embarkation point? 

DAY: Embarkation?

INTERVIEWER: Yeah, from what city?

DAY: It was over on the other side of the ocean. 

INTERVIEWER: I mean from the states. 

DAY: From the states where they took us overseas? 

INTERVIEWER: Right.

DAY: Well, it was down in Florida.

INTERVIEWER: From Florida, where did you land?

DAY: We went to New England. The people there were real good to us. We weren't fighting a war at that time. Later on, we got into it, but it didn't last long after I got over there.

INTERVIEWER: Can you recall the dates that you did go overseas?

DAY: No, right now I can't think of it.

INTERVIEWER: What was your unit?

DAY: 9TH Division.

INTERVIEWER: What were your duties in the 9th Division?


DAY: I was private lst class. I made that right off the bat and that was about as military as I could do.

INTERVIEWER: Were you a rifleman?

DAY: Yes, you had a rifle all the time. When you went away, they issued you a rifle and you kept it, slept with it, and took it wherever you went. 

INTERVIEWER: Did you have any further training in England?

DAY: No training that I can remember. 

INTERVIEWER: Did you go over before or after D-day?

DAY: After D-day. The people were real nice to us.

INTERVIEWER: What about your baptism a fire? 

DAY: Baptism of fire?

INTERVIEWER: The first time your unit went into battle?

DAY: Well, I didn't really get into the battle. I was back in another place. I hadn't gone to the front. In the evenings, they called us together and they'd pick them out. 

INTERVIEWER: Replacements, correct? 

DAY: Yes.

INTERVIEWER: I see.

DAY: They just kept skipping over me for some reason or other. 

INTERVIEWER: You were one of the lucky ones, I guess.

DAY: It was about over with then.

INTERVIEWER: What period of time was that, Fred? Was that 1944 or 1945?

DAY: 1944. 

INTERVIEWER: Was that before the big German push or after the push in the Battle of the Bulge?

DAY: It was before.

INTERVIEWER: Can you recall where you were stationed in France?

DAY: In France? No, I can't think of that.

INTERVIEWER: You said that after the war was over was when you went into Germany?

DAY: Yes. It ended and I was on a ship out there waiting to be put into Germany. They had quit fighting when I got over there.

INTERVIEWER: The Day of Armistice was declared. Where did you land in Germany from the ship? Can you recall that? 

DAY: I can't think of the name of it right now.

INTERVIEWER: Was it a large port like Hamburg or Bremen?

DAY: It might have been Hamburg.

INTERVIEWER: As you retold me before, the German people were very pleasant to you?

DAY: Oh, yes. I used to go to their houses to eat supper. The food of the U.S. Army wasn't very good. I got tired of eating that stuff and I was friendly with the German people. I'd say, "Hey how ya doing ichen?" They'd speak back in English. 

INTERVIEWER: I see you have some photographs there. Do you want to show any of those? Show them to the camera, Fred. 

DAY: I was in the 9th Division and I was a football player. I played when I was in high school and college and I played pulling guard. When they said all the linemen over here and all the backs over here, I stood a little while and looked over and saw that all them were between 250 and 300 pounds. I thought to myself, "Fred, you don't weigh but 150 pounds." 

INTERVIEWER: Show that picture Fred.

DAY: This is what I brought back from overseas. 

INTERVIEWER: The 9th Division Red Circle Division.

DAY: The football was real good over there. 

INTERVIEWER: Where did you play?

DAY: Nuremberg and Munich.

INTERVIEWER: I was wondering what township. All over Germany?


DAY: All over Germany.

INTERVIEWER: Oh, that's very interesting. 

DAY: They had put us in a truck and hauled us around.

INTERVIEWER: Did you play different divisions? 

DAY: We played different divisions and I might have a list of it. On November 25th, 1944, my address was Company D, Long Point, 6th Battalion, Camp Wheeler, Georgia. That's where I started off. 

INTERVIEWER: Camp Wheeler, Georgia? That's after your induction at Fort Bragg?

DAY: Yes. This was when we played the 71st Red Circle Division. It was in Augsburg, Germany on October the 7th. 

INTERVIEWER: October the 7th. What year was that Fred?

DAY: Well, it would have to be after the war.

INTERVIEWER: 1945, then?

DAY: Yes, 1945. Andy Curry, Jr. and Bill Maloney were our coaches and they were real good coaches.

INTERVIEWER: Well, Curry is a famous coach. I recall that name.

DAY: Kerr, do you remember him?

INTERVIEWER: Yes, I remember the name. I think Andy Kerr was coach up at Colgate University. 

DAY: Yes, he was a good coach. When I went out for the football team, they said all the backs over here, all the linemen over here, and I just stood there for a while looking at them and thinking, "Golly." I was afraid to go over there and I had never played defensive half back in my whole life. 

INTERVIEWER: Something different Fred?

DAY: They took me over and in the first game, they pulled me out and said, "Fred, you're a pulling guard." I asked, "What do you mean?" The coach said, "Because you hit 'em low." That's what a pulling guard did going right for the knees. I did that for awhile and half back.

INTERVIEWER: Did they realized you could block low?


DAY: Yes, I was a good blocker. I was real fast back in those days. 

INTERVIEWER: That's what they needed a pulling guard for. I pulled out and blocked the end or one of the defensive formations. Can you tell me about any interesting times you had in Germany playing football?

DAY: Well, we played and the war ran out not long after that.

INTERVIEWER: Show the picture that says victory. That's an old, lovely picture. 

DAY: Here's the boss on this side.

INTERVIEWER: Oh yes, that's the boss. That's right. Is that your division newspaper? 

DAY: Yes, the 9th Division newspaper.

INTERVIEWER: I see.

DAY: May the 4th, 1946.

INTERVIEWER: I think the 9th Division was the group that took the Remagen Bridge, wasn't it?

DAY: Yes.

INTERVIEWER: That was a very notable thing.

DAY: It was a good thing and there were a lot of good officers in it.

INTERVIEWER: That's the important thing, good leadership.

DAY: You have to have good leadership or you just do not do very well.

INTERVIEWER: So, how long did you stay over there playing football, Fred?

DAY: I just played one season.

INTERVIEWER: One season.

DAY: It wasn't long after that I was sent home. 

INTERVIEWER: To be mustered out of the service, is that what you mean?

DAY: Yes, at Fort Bragg. 

INTERVIEWER: Fort Bragg?

DAY: Yes. I had gone on to Fort Bragg for my honorable discharge July 22nd, 1946.

INTERVIEWER: Were there any well known football players on your squad? 

DAY: Not on a professional level. They were mostly college and high school players. The games over there were real good and I enjoyed them. One time, somebody stepped on my leg and my vein had to be taken out. The German people were very good people. The officers told us not to fraternize with the German people. I went to their houses and it got to where I regularly went to their houses. Sometimes, I did it five days in a row. I'd eat because the German people wanted to be good to us. I found out that Hitler was the one who caused that war, not the German people. The Germans were a good bunch of people, as good as us.

INTERVIEWER: Did you ever have a chance to see any of the concentration camps?

DAY: Concentration camps.

INTERVIEWER: Over in Germany?

DAY: Yes, they had a lot of camps and they treated them bad. 

INTERVIEWER: They sure did. 

DAY: I think the officers got that kind of cleared out and they started to break them up. The German people were just wonderful people, as good as you and me. 

INTERVIEWER: Well everybody has a different opinion. I know some of the Air Force people have a different opinion, but that's another story.

DAY: The Air Force didn't fraternize with them.

INTERVIEWER: They were the ones that were bombing them. That's the whole thing.

DAY: That's right. They didn't even see them. They drove to the airports, stayed right in the airports, and flew in and out of the airports. They didn't get out into the cities and talk with the people. 

INTERVIEWER: Did you get a chance to meet any Russian soldiers when you were over there?

DAY: No, I didn't meet any of them. 

INTERVIEWER: I thought when you went into Czechoslovakia, you would have seen some.

DAY: Maybe I did, I don't know, but I don't remember any of them.


INTERVIEWER: How did you like your football experiences over there?

DAY: Well, one time I was playing in a game and the coach called me out and said, "Hey Fred, sit right here." I said, "What's the matter?" He said, "Fred, you are no defensive half back, you're a pulling guard." I said, "What are you talking about?" He said, "The way you hit 'em below, like a pulling guard, I can tell you ain't no half back."
INTERVIEWER: A wise coach.

DAY: Yes, he really was wise. We had good football coaches and there were a lot of men to pick from so we should have good coaches. 

INTERVIEWER: I guess with all your travels around Germany with the team, you did see a lot of German people.

DAY: Oh, yes. Sometimes, they'd let them into the game along with the soldiers. The German people would wait out there and if enough soldiers didn't come to the game, they'd let them in. Most of the time, they didn't sit in the stadium, but had to sit way off or stand up. 

INTERVIEWER: I presume that was your duty, playing football, right? You didn't pull any guard duty or anything like that? 

DAY: That's right. 

INTERVIEWER: And practicing? Right?

DAY: We had good eating. The people just loved us to death.

INTERVIEWER: You just said you got good eating. Did you have a different mess than the regular soldier did? 

DAY: Well, it was all right and you had to eat. The coach said, "Fred, you gotta eat more, cause you need to get a little more weight on ya." I didn't weigh but about 170 lbs.

INTERVIEWER: When did you leave Europe, Fred? Can you recall the dates?

DAY: No, I can't remember. I might have it in some of my stuff. 

INTERVIEWER: I see that you have the schedule of where you played there of your football team. Can you read those off, Fred? 

DAY: We were the 9th Division and we played against the 4th Army Division, the 36th Division, the 83rd Division (we beat them real bad), the 94th Division, the 80th Division, the 101stAB Division, the 90th Division, the 1st Division, and 22nd Corporation. We played in Augsburg, Suze, Garmisch, and Nuremberg. It brings back a lot of memories.


INTERVIEWER: What did you think when you visited the devistated German cities ? 

DAY: Well, they were good to the people.

INTERVIEWER: I'm talking about the city ruins. The cities themselves from the bombings and what have you?

DAY: Here's a whole bunch of pictures that I got. 

INTERVIEWER: On the back, Fred, you have rough writings, so maybe you can recall what those pictures were about?

DAY: Yes, that's right. That's Hoffer on the left and me on the right and to the left of the volleyball court in the back of the well and machinery. The supply trucks were fifty yards from where we were. Hope took the picture of Ray and I. This is Ray and Hoffer standing in front of where we lived. Where I marked a square with ink, was where we lived in Dauphin, Germany. It was May 23rd, 1945. 

INTERVIEWER: Where's that located Fred? I can't remember the town to tell you the truth. Any idea?

DAY: No, I'd have to look at a map.

INTERVIEWER: Same here.

DAY: This is me standing in the street in Garmisch Park about one block from when we stayed at the 10th A.D. That's a picture of the streets. This is the front of the theater and the Last Day was the name of the picture that was playing. It was January 1946. 

INTERVIEWER: So, you were still over there in January of 1946, right?

DAY: The Army of Occupation was no good.

INTERVIEWER: What do you mean it was no good?

DAY: I didn't like being over there. I felt like the war was over with and it was time to go home. That is me standing on one of the running boards on one of our big trucks in June of 1945. 

INTERVIEWER: That's just after the Armistice was declared. Well, those pictures bring back good memories, I hope?


DAY: This is me on a fishing trip on June 4th, 1945. That is me kneeling at the left with a helmet and goggles near Munich. It didn't turn out good but it is a little village in the valley.

INTERVIEWER: The city of Munich, was that pretty well in ruins? They bombed a lot in Munich, Berlin, and Hamburg.

DAY: That's right. This is me riding a horse at the rest camp. This horse started running with me and I liked to have fell off. They had some nice horses there. This was June, 1945. Yes, I used to like to ride the horses. I never rode a horse until I was over there. 
This is me with the truck I was driving in the parking lot in January of 1946. 

INTERVIEWER: You're a handsome looking guy, you know that, Fred?

DAY: Yes, I was good looking then. 

INTERVIEWER: Yes, you were, a very handsome looking young fellow. Were you married when you went into the service, or afterwards?

DAY: I was married before I went in the service but I had not been married very long. We spent a weekend fishing with the German family that lived at Kenosee Lake. The old man was the one who had all the fish and could really catch them. This is me standing beside the truck in front of the apartment house we lived in.

INTERVIEWER: Your billet was in an apartment house, huh? That's a pretty nice deal.

DAY: Here's a good one. That's me.

INTERVIEWER: Oh yes, that's a good looking picture. You got your helmet on and everything, right?

DAY: Yes, I have that old helmet on, but I was on duty then.

INTERVIEWER: You mean guard duty? Oh, I thought maybe you just played football.

DAY: No, I had guard duty. This is me in front of the command post headquarters at Bierobier,. Pollack Liberation Prison. This is where I stood guarding at night, only I wanted to be sitting down. I had a machine gun and this was May, 1945. Yes, we had machine guns but I didn't like shooting them. Here's two little kids. This is little Elizabeth and Martin, her brother, and me. I did associate with the German people. 


INTERVIEWER: You did say that before. When the officers said, "Don't fraternize," 
you were breaking a rule?

DAY: You aren't kidding, I was breaking a rule. I didn't mind and I didn't care whether they caught me or not. Their food was a lot better. Here's where I was shooting. Ray and Hoffer found their rifles in the motor pool. I was a truck driver, too.

INTERVIEWER: That was another duty you had, was a truck driver, right?

DAY: Yes, I was good at driving those trucks and I used to drive buses, too. Only one company of men used all of that equipment. Here I am with the American flag.

INTERVIEWER: That's good. Show that to the camera. Where was that taken?

DAY: The American flag and I was taken in Germany, somewhere. Oh Lord, there's me smoking a pipe and me standing in the roadway. It was a beautiful place and it was cold this day in June of 1945. This is a street scene in the middle of Munich. Here's one of my friends, Larry and I. This is the fellow I was telling you about being the best light fellow in the company. He was a real nice fellow and he was good to everybody. 

INTERVIEWER: It's good to have a buddy like that. 

DAY: This is Ray and I in front of where we lived. You can see the church steeples in the background and this was May, 1945. 

INTERVIEWER: They bring back a lot of memories, don't they Fred? 

DAY: I haven't looked at these for a long time.

INTERVIEWER: Do you still correspond with any of your old buddies, by any chance? How about reunions? Do you have any reunions?

DAY: Well we did for a while, but they finally got over with. 

This is our PX where we bought all of our cigarettes and candy bars. 

INTERVIEWER: Did you ever distribute candy bars to the young German kids that didn't have anything at all?


DAY: Yes, I saw the kids. I still do that. My wife says, "Fred, I wish you wouldn't do that." She doesn't like me talking to the kids. I say, "Hey, pretty. How ya doing?" Well I guess I'd better put these back in here. 

INTERVIEWER: Fred, that's interesting. It seems like you had a good time in Germany.

DAY: Yes, I was glad the war ended. 

INTERVIEWER: You enjoyed yourself? You were glad the war was over?

DAY: Yes. 

INTERVIEWER: Now, when you were discharged in July, did you go back to college?

DAY: No, I didn't but my wife did, but I should have.

INTERVIEWER: The G.I. bill came around and a lot of people did take advantage of it. 

DAY: Yes. Here's Hitler's culture adviser. He's the only Nazi to escape sentence. Rumors are that he reached the western world. Don't forget this face. 

INTERVIEWER: Wanted dead or alive.

DAY: Right. Here's a picture of him. 

INTERVIEWER: And Mussolini?

DAY: Oh yes, Mussolini, right. There's a good picture of him.

INTERVIEWER: The henchman, Goebles, I guess?

DAY: Even the German people didn't like him much. 

INTERVIEWER: He got control of the German people. That's how he accomplished what he did. 

DAY: Here's a terrible looking picture. 

INTERVIEWER: Humanity at its lowest point. You're exactly right. 

DAY: I don't know where I got this thing. 

INTERVIEWER: It looks very interesting, I'll tell you that. It's been around a long time. What's that picture there? Who's that?


DAY: That's wanted dead or alive. 

INTERVIEWER: Oh, that's the gentlemen on the back page.

DAY: That's Hitler's closest advisor and he's the only Nazi to escape sentence. Here's another nice one here.

INTERVIEWER: Is that Hiedrich? You got the name down there? Is that the one who escaped to Argentina or Brazil? Let me see if I can remember it. Oh, that's Martin Boreman and they got him. That's your paper of the 9th Division? 

DAY: Victory of 1945.

INTERVIEWER: Victory is here. Victory in Europe. That paper held up very well. 

DAY: Yes, it sure did. It held up very well. This is the 9th Division news and this thing has been in my hands since 1945. 

INTERVIEWER: Did you ever read any of the other papers, the Stars & Stripes or the Yanks? Do you remember any of the Army newspapers that were over there? The Stars & Stripes and Yanks were for all the G.I.s. 

DAY: Well, playing football over there was good for me, but I didn't like it over there. Did I show you this one? This was the 9th Division at Nuremberg Stadium on Organization Day. This is the 1st Infantry Division and the 42nd Infantry Division. That was Sunday, December 21st, 1945. Well, that was our football team. Look here, this was me at 23 years old. See that, halfback, 5'11", 175 lbs. Believe it or not, that's what I weigh now.

INTERVIEWER: That's the roster of your team, where they were all located, and all the squads, right? They were from all over the United States. Did you notice the weights on the gentlemen today, Fred, compared to what you had then? You have linemen 300 pounds, you know, playing pro ball today.

DAY: I'm thinking about giving a lot of this stuff to the library because I don't need this stuff.

INTERVIEWER: That's a good idea and that's a wonderful thing to do unless your division has a museum? Most of what I had left, went down to my unit at the Air Force Museum in Savannah and it's in quite a large room. That's wonderful to donate those archives to the museum. Well Fred, do you have anything else to say today?


DAY: Well, I...

INTERVIEWER: That you can share your military experiences with us. 

DAY: Military? 

INTERVIEWER: Well, it's still military. You served your country and you were in uniform no matter whether you fired a gun or not. 

DAY: Yes, I'm glad I did something.

INTERVIEWER: What did you do after you finished your service time, Fred?

DAY: Well, I worked in a restaurant for awhile. Then I opened up a meat business and was the first person to make hamburger patties for a café in Wilmington, North Carolina. I used to work all the restaurants and they liked the hamburger patty. I even had to put people on all the way around the clock to make hamburger patties. I had worked the meat business before. Later on, I got into the restaurant business.

INTERVIEWER: Did you have your own meat producing plant here in Wilmington?

DAY: Yes. I had to have a third shift to make those patties.

INTERVIEWER: Did you have a machine at that time or did you have to make them by hand.

DAY: No, we made them by machine. 

INTERVIEWER: At that time, we didn't have McDonald's or Burger King, did we?

DAY: No, we didn't have those, but there were a lot of places that made hamburgers. You wouldn't believe that in Wilmington, North Carolina, there were that many hamburgers, but there were. I also worked Southport and other areas. I had people that came to me from different places around and near Wilmington. That machine was the only machine making hamburger patties in the area. I was really good at cutting meat. The business was on Fourth and Red Cross Streets.

INTERVIEWER: Did you import your meat from a certain place, Fred?

DAY: Armour and Swift & Company was where I bought my meat. 

INTERVIEWER: Did you also cut steaks, pot roasts, and things like that? 

DAY: T-bone steaks, yes. 

INTERVIEWER: Mostly beef products? 


DAY: Sometimes, I cut some pork into pork chops.

INTERVIEWER: Most of this went to commercial places, such as restaurants, cafeterias, and places like that? What restaurants did you supply? Can you remember them? There must have been so many of them?

DAY: Yes, there were so many of them. McDonald's even bought from me at one time. I've had an interesting life. I thank God that it's been good to me. 

INTERVIEWER: Did you stay in the meat business a long time?

DAY: Yes, a long time.

INTERVIEWER: A long time in the same location?

DAY: Well, I moved one time.

INTERVIEWER: You must have expanded your business quite a bit then, right? How many people did you employ?

DAY: I had about four people.

INTERVIEWER: Four people helping you out?

DAY: I'd have people making hamburger patties at night and we'd be working 24 hours a day. I was hurting Swift and Company and Armour, sometimes. They got mad at me, but I tried to be friends with them. 

INTERVIEWER: You were taking business away from them, right?

DAY: That's right, but it was only the hamburger. Then, I cut T-bone steaks and they didn't do that. Armour didn't have a hamburger patty machine. That hamburger patty machine made me successful. 

INTERVIEWER: How long were you in business, Fred?

DAY: About nine years.

INTERVIEWER: You were down on Fourth Street for nine years and then you moved to another place, you said. Didn't you say you moved from Fourth Street one time? 

DAY: I think that's where I closed up. It's on Fourth and Red Cross Street. The Lord's been good to me.

INTERVIEWER: Did you stay in the meat business after you closed your shop? You said you were there nine years. Did you stay in the beef business?


DAY: No, I gave it up. I went into selling insurance. In the insurance business, I was in the top ten at Metropolitan...

INTERVIEWER: Metropolitan Life Insurance?

DAY: I was in the top ten and that's all over the whole United States.

INTERVIEWER: Well that's very good. You sold a lot of policies then, didn't you?

DAY: I just loved selling insurance. 

INTERVIEWER: Talking to people, I presume?

DAY: I'd make appointments in the mornings the day before and I'd have appointments lined up. In the insurance business, you can't work very much unless you're calling on a business. The people that worked weren't at home.

INTERVIEWER: You were making your calls Saturdays, Sundays, and evenings? 

DAY: That's right.

INTERVIEWER: I sold too, but that was during the day. I sold business equipment, but I had appointments during the day. My evenings were taken care of and so were my weekends.

DAY: I had to call on people sometimes on Saturday, but I would not work on Sunday. I just didn't feel like I had a right to do that. God was good to me and I just didn't feel like working on Sunday would do it. Some of them wanted to see me on Sunday, but I'd say I can't do that. 

INTERVIEWER: After you got out of the service, did you correspond with any of your old military buddies? 

DAY: No, not much. 

INTERVIEWER: Were you just glad to get out? 

DAY: That's what makes me mad at myself. I get to talking and I forget what I am saying. Of course, that happens to other people, too.

INTERVIEWER: That's age creeping up on us. There's no question about it. How about your family, Fred? Did you have any children?

DAY: I had two boys and a girl. My daughter got killed when she was twenty one years old. 

INTERVIEWER: An accident, I presume?

DAY: No, somebody killed her.

INTERVIEWER: I'm sorry to hear that, Fred.

DAY: I told Bess not to let her take a ride from anybody that she didn't know. She was walking along the road and somebody stopped and asked, "You want a ride?" She said, "Well, I'm going down the road." 

INTERVIEWER: Was this here in Wilmington?

DAY: Right here in Wilmington.

INTERVIEWER: Two boys are around the area here?

DAY: No, he's in jail. He got life in prison. 

INTERVIEWER: One of your boys?
DAY: No, the fellow. My two sons are very nice. Freddie is a Vice President of Carolina Power and Light and he's been doing that about twelve or thirteen years. Bobby's a car salesman and does alright. Both of my sons are good. 

INTERVIEWER: Well, you've had an interesting life, I'll tell you that. Thank you very much for reminiscing about your service and your civilian life. 

DAY: Thank you.