| Summary: | Oral interview with John F. Young, conducted by Dale Gilbert Jarvis, recorded at the College of the North Atlantic in Stephenville. 0:00 — John gives birthdate, parent’s information, family details; 02:49 — why he joined up; helping pregnant sister; 05:26 — enlistment location; basic training; 07:30 — service branch and more training; working in the weather service; types of equipment; 10:37 — gunnery school; high mortality rate of gunners; 11:50 — going to Harmon; growing up around military; father, first world war veteran, cavalry saddle; 13:18 — first memories of Stephenville; barracks; seeing the Northern Lights; blissful life at Harmon; 16:27 — meeting his wife, Barbara White; dating; meeting wife’s family and their names; wedding, foreign minister, ice on the floor; 22:57 — higher ups response to marriage; restrictions, regulations; marrying stateside; 25:23 — radio school; returning to Chicago for school; reenlisting, returning to Newfoundland 1963; 8th weather squadron; recording the weather; driving on the ice; recording snow and ice; 30:00 — horse races on the ice; deep snow; 30:38 — rank at reenlistment; transition from Army Air Force to US Air Force; communications squadron; 32:53 — France after Newfoundland; wanting a Volkswagen; seeing Pope Pius XII; couldn’t afford a good camera; 36:06 — stationed in Thule; Strategic Air Command; tensions with Russia; B52s overhead; bomb alarm; 40:14 — Cuban Missile Crisis; Bergstrom Air Force Base in Austin, Texas; B52s taking off; 43:28 — interesting characters; Vice-President Johnson; Hubert Humphrey; Edward G. Robinson; 47:05 — memories of hunting and fishing at Harmon; hunting moose; fishing cod and capelin; love for Newfoundland; 51:13 — impressions coming back to Stephenville; Port Harmon; water spout; 53:45 — self-discipline; 54:10 — advice for younger person; 55:25 — first thing he saw in Stephenville; officers fighting.
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