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Release Form for an audio transcript by Lillian Rudd Davisworth May 4, 2000. Rudd is being interviewed by Robin Sellers, from FSU.

Audio Transcript of Interview by Robin Sellers of Lillian Rudd Davisworth. In the interview Rudd discusses her wartime experiences. Rudd begins by discussing her family history (Floridian for many generations) and how she got the job at Camp Murphy after she graduated High School in New Smyrna Beach. She applied to Camp Murphy, and went to Belle Isle Business School while she waited to hear from them, and in October 1943 she received a telegram. While there, she kept files on the men, typed special orders, and eventually was promoted to writing the orders: Every time a GI was transferred, they needed to have "orders" to take along with them. The school trained highly specialized men, at one point about 6,000, to use radar. Rudd also discussed the blackouts that occurred along the coast of Florida. While Rudd was in New Smyrna Beach, there were dog handlers whom patrolled the beaches at night. Rudd's husband was from New Smyrna Beach, and he transferred to Hialeah as part of the Coast Guard, where he was tasked with building and maintaining telephone connection up the east coast of Florida. Rudd recalls how rationing made it hard to get certain things, including panty hose. Rudd's mother struggled especially while running a restaurant, although there will still tourists coming. Rudd also references how the German POWs at Daytona beach were allowed to go for swims, even though it was known that Germans were torturing the US POWs. She also discusses Forrest Ferguson, before discussing her own personal life. She married her husband on September 30, 1944 at nineteen in New Smyrna Beach. Then he headed to Long Island without her, but she rejoined him in New Orleans. From there they headed to Galveston, Texas, which is where he transferred into the Air Force. They moved after that to Denver Colorado, which Rudd found terrifying, as it was the middle of winter. They spent so much time moving and traveling, they put heaters in their car so their daughter could sleep

This is a full eight pages of the Camp Murphy Gazette from May 26, 1944. Stories on Page 1: Camp Compactness is Stressed by Moving of Company Areas; GI Voters get Info on Coming Primary; Post Activities Featured in Gala Musical Revue; Officers to Receive Masters Degrees; Literary Poll; Prisoner of War; Both Battalions Parade Saturday; "VforV" Inaugurates Second Record Year. Page 2: The Camp Murphy Message; Quotation of the Week; Letters to the Editor; Chaplain's Corner: The Army-An Opportunity; Ex-Missionary Now Student at Camp; Church Notices; Memorial Day Services; LDS Use No. Chapel. Page 3: Lillian Rudd Acclaimed Queen of Camp Murphy; Cllie Stoltz III; Chaplain Returns; Spouse Wins Bingo; Non Coms Frolic in Striped Tempo; Altar Bound; Choir Singers Needed; USO Tour Sunday; Two Chosen for OCS at Camp Monmouth; From Brush to Beer; Kittens in "Klink"; Tangoing Tutor; Muscles for Murphy; Outrattles Rattler; Jewish Services Tonite. Page 4: … "B" Bivouac's Banter;…Moronic Meanderings. Page 5: Quartet Quandary Decided June 11; GI Voters Get Info (con.t pg1); Capt. F. H. Osborne Leaves Murphy; Monthly Luncheon; Murphy Man in Italy; PM Shift Encampment Solves Major Infiltration Problems; Tormenting Teasers; Personalities; Post Activities (cont. pg1); No Gas-Long Walk; Falls From Bus; South Chapel Musical; Straw Vote for PX Magazine Selections; Call Home; Library Assistant. Page 6: Brass Facks; To Remember You By; Hospital News; PX Postscripts; Civilian Snooze; Tormenting Teaser Solution. Page 7: Company K Cops Softball Tourney; "Sportopics"; Co. K Champs; Nethercutt Stars in One Hitter; Murphy 'Raqueteers' Lose 5-1; Shamrocks Defeated by Morrison Field; Marines Land First. Page 7: It's A Deal; Where and When; Post Theatre; Male Call.