Summary: | Oral interview with Dan McConnell, conducted by Dale Gilbert Jarvis, recorded at the College of the North Atlantic in Stephenville. 0:00 - brief family history, enlisting in the Air Force and coming to NL; 1:40 - his grandfather’s illness and grandmother’s death, compassionate reassignment; 6:00 - buildings on the base, in Stephenville; 7:30 - position and rank on the base; 8:45 - meeting his wife, getting married; 12:25 - getting reassigned to guard duty; 13:20 - losing his hand in a flare gun accident; 21:50 - returning to his wife, apartment hunting; 23:25 - leave and disability discharge; 29:30 - returning to NL; 30:30 returning to work for a trucking company, applying for accepting position at base supply; 32:10 - closing the base; 34:50 - more family history
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