Harold Mansfield was born in 1912 in White Salmon, Washington. He earned a BA in journalism. He joined Boeing as a publicity manager in 1936, and was the author of Vision: A Saga of the Sky (1956), a history of the Boeing Airplane Company.

In this interview conducted by Lorraine McConaghy for the Life on the Homefront Oral History Project on December 27, 1984, Mansfield discusses how the war started for Boeing in 1939 due to European contracts; the camouflaging of the Boeing plant; workers at Boeing (women, unions, training); product security; issues of product production, including cooperative production in the airplane industry and improving productivity with music; and the impact of Pearl Harbor on his personal life.

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Re-Digitized in 2025 from analog cassette to .wav file.
Transcript: Yes, scanned from original analog to .pdf (final); original hard copy of rough draft and final transcript in admin file.