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LESKO, William J. (b. 1924)

Oral Histories

OH 1377

His experiences in the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. Training at Sioux Falls, South Dakota, as a radio operator/mechanic, 1943-44; radar fundamentals school at Chanute Field, Illinois, 1944; LORAN training at Boca Raton, Florida, 1944-45; assignment to the 13th Squadron at Chittagong, India, 1945; servicing radar and radio equipment for C-46 cargo planes flying “The Hump”; plane losses due to accidents and Japanese action; reassignment to Myitkyina, Burma, 1945; his postwar career in television.