Veteran's History Project - Lyle D. Tayson

Lyle D. Tayson

Sergeant

U.S. Army

A/B Seaman

Merchant Marines

Editor's Note: This story is one of many American Veteran accounts published in The Sidney Sun-Telegraph. The writer, who is from Potter, is conducting the interviews as part of the Library of Congress' Veterans History Project.

When the leadership of the U.S. government engaged America in World War II, there was a tremendous amount of work to be done.

Many of our young men and women had to be trained in the branches of the military they had signed up for or were drafted into. The war machines and weaponry had to be produced and tra...