The National Home Front Project is a major grassroots initiative under the leadership
of historians at Washington College. Our innovative oral history program partners
with individuals, communities, and organizations across the United States to record,
preserve, and share audio interviews with civilians who experienced World War II.
By pulling together in the spirit of wartime Americans, we can ensure that future
generations hear their voices and that our country never forgets its past. For this
short entry, we’d like to share the story of Hartley Bayne.
Hartley Bayne was born in Towson, Maryland in 1925. He grew up in Crumpton, MD. During
World War II, he was drafted into the Navy, where he excelled with the new radar technology
and was made an instructor. In the interview, he describes an account of the sinking
of a German U-boat in South Carolina, U-352:
