2 3 New York State Military 4 Museum Interview 5 INTERVIEW OF HAROLD WILEY 6 June 22, 2 0 05 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Associated Reporters Intl., Inc. (800) 523-7887
[email protected] u - ^ Page 2 1 Harold Wiley - 6-22-05 2 MR. CLARK: Okay. This is an 3 interview at the New York State Military Museum, 4 Saratoga Springs, New York. 22nd of June 2 005. 5 Approximately one fifteen p.m. 6 Interviewers are Wayne Clark and Mike Russert. 7 MR. CLARK: Could you give me 8 your full name, date of birth, and place of birth, 9 please? 10 MR. WILEY: Harold J. Wiley. 11 Born in town of Pittstown, Rensselaer County, New 12 York, March 14th, 1919. 13 Q. Okay. What was your educational 14 background prior to entering service? 15 A. I went to -- I went to -- I went 16 to District school a one room school house until I 17 finished eighth grade and then I went to Whitneys 18 Falls High school, graduated in 1937. And then I 19 stayed home a year. 20 In 1938 I went to Morrisville 21 Tech School, auto automotive engineering. I 22 graduated there in June of 1940. And worked in 23 Syracuse in a garage until September when I went 24 And I went to Chinook Field and joined the air Page 3 1 Harold Wiley - 6-22-05 2 force. 3 Q. Now, you enlisted in September 4 1940.