Home Movies Capture Returning WWII Soldiers and a Bygone Plainfield

In honor of Veterans Day, we are linking to this video called "Plainfield Goes to War," which was originally produced and aired in 1999 on Plainfield Community Television.

It was compiled from home movies made during World War II of Plainfield residents who were home on leave from the military or had just finished their tour in the service. The movies were shot by former Mayor Leroy Taylor and donated to the Plainfield Historical Society.

Because there was no sound with the film, voiceovers were done by Harold Pennington, Bill Miller, Jim Chobar and Hattie Eisenbrandt, who identified the people and offered personal memories of them or of Plainfield during the war. 

Don Gettys, former president of Plainfield Community Television, was the producer of the show and kindly sent us the link to the video on YouTube.

You'll recognize some of the names and places, but was a very different town back in the 1940s and some of the stories told are bittersweet.