Oral History Interview with Louis Roffman, December 8, 1980 Page: 12
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Roffman:hangar way at the end, called the Hawaiian Air Depot at the
time. That's where our theater was.
What was the food like?
To me I thought it was great. We had ample of everything.It was just great. We had a sort of an organization where
everybody knew everybody else. In as small an organization
as we had, it was so great. It's quite evident now. If
you've been around here today, and you see the 31st get
together at this convention, we're all one, and we're all
concerned. If you were ever involved in an airplane hangar
there that had additional maintenance, and you needed additional
help, without a doubt a man would cancel his going to town
to help you--to help you fix your airplane if you needed help.
All you had to do was call on him.
Describe what living conditions were like in the consolidated
barracks after you moved over there,
This was great' Now we lived in the barracks; we had a wall
locker; we had showers...it was in the same building, and
we didn't have to walk to various showers. We had the mess
hall in the building, in the wing.
A huge mess hall, wasn't it?
It was a large building, and we had these wings coming out,
and these wings were where the barracks were. We had a
day room; we had pool tables. The only thing indifferent
on the whole base was the fact that our theater was in aMarcello:
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Marcello, Ronald E. & Roffman, Louis. Oral History Interview with Louis Roffman, December 8, 1980, book, December 8, 1980; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2100315/m1/14/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Oral History Program.