Jacob H. Douma
English Channel when the invasion took place.
He wanted to know if I'd be interested. I said, "What would I be?" He said, "I can give
you a Captaincy. I said, "That sounds pretty good to me." I thought a little while, and
said, "You know, I would certainly like to do that, but my wife is in the hospital. Our
first son was born yesterday [April 23,
and I don't think I want to leave her right
now. He said, "I understand," so that was the end of that.
Was that Ted Wyman?
Ted Wyman. You're right. Your memory is better than mine.
Well, I've got some aids here, you know. [Laughter] He was the District Engineer in
Honolulu.
Yes. He was there, after he left Los Angeles.
I don't think he ended up going to England. I think he ended up in Alaska.
That's right. He went to Alaska. I think he just had this one job, to get these people
organized, and then his next assignment was up in Alaska. He worked on the
American highway down to South America.
He had the Alaska Highway, and he had that CANOL [Canadian Oil] Project.
Right.
CANOL would have been enough to drive anybody crazy. [Laughter] What was wartime
Los Angeles like?
Wartime Los Angeles?
Just so I can get a taste for the social aspect of the war era.
It didn't seem much different than before the war. Of course, there wasn't much war
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