Oral History Interview with Edward Sandini, July 12, 2012 Page: 2

                                
My name is Richard Misenhimer and I am a volunteer oral historian for TI
National Museum of the Pacific War. Today I am interviewing Edward
Zandini of Edmond, Oklahoma by telephone. This interview is in the
support of the Nimitz Education and Research Center, National Museum
the Pacific War, Texas Historical Commission for the preservation of
historical information related to World War II. Ed, I want to thank you for
taking time to do this interview today and thank you for your service to o
country during World War II as well as Korea and Viet Nam. Before we
begin the interview, I would like to read the Oral History Agreement that
we are required to obtain. (Read Oral History Agreement and Mr. Zandin
verbally agreed to it.) Now, I would like to begin by asking you your
birthdate.
Edward:      June 6, 1925.
Richard:    Did you have any brothers and sisters?
Edward:     No.
Richard:    Now, you were born during the Depression. How did the Depression affe
you and your family?
Edward:     We weren't very rich and born in Philadelphia and the first place that I
recall, we lived, was over a bank in a one room apartment which was

behind a dentist office. My mother cleaned the dentist's office in exchan
for the rent of the one room. We had an old-style bathtub and an
overhead water closet for the toilet. My mother hung the clothes to dry
a clothesline on the roof of the building. My father had a job as a truck
driver. Later, my mother became a waitress in a bar. We never had an
awful lot during that time. When I was six years old, we moved to anoth

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