Dorothy Myers
Interviewee: Dorothy Myers
Interviewer: Natalie Garrison
Date of Interview: 3 April 2002
Length of Interview: 20 minutes
Dorothy Myers lived in Canton, Georgia during the second world war. In this interview she discusses her home front experience in the South. During the war she worked at the Bell Bomber Plant in Marietta (now Lockheed) and in the interview describes what it was like to work there in wartime. She describes an average workday, from carpooling to the plant from Cherokee County, going through security checks to enter the plant, to working on an assembly line. She also recalls the reaction at home when Pearl Harbor was bombed and the precautions taken at home to protect against invasion—such as practicing blackouts. The most captivating part of this interview comes in Ms. Myers discussion of her husband, who served in the Navy. She describes what it was like when he left for war and how he could not tell her that he was actually shipping out that day. Then she recounts a poignant tale of his homecoming. The story is a tearjerker, but heartwarming and inspiring. She also talks about the difference between war then and now, including the changing attitude toward nuclear war. Ms. Myers’s interview, though only twenty minutes long, is full of interesting anecdotes for anyone seeking information on the World War II home front in Georgia.