Interviewee | LUCKADOO, John H. (b. 1922) |
Military Service | U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Vetern, 350th and 351st Bomb Squadrons, 100th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force |
Interview ID # | OH 1300 |
Date(s) of interview | |
Description | His experiences as a B-17 pilot in the European Theater during World War II. Primary, basic, and advanced training in the U.S., 1942-43; assignment to the B-17; stationing at Thorpe-Abbotts, England, 1943; his first combat mission; subsequent missions; German antiaircraft defenses and fighter tactics; raid to Bremen, October 8, 1943; defensive measures against German antiaircraft defenses; heavy bomber losses and effects on morale; training replacement crews; postwar effects of his experience. |
Interviewer(s) | Ronald E. Marcello |
Physical Description | 112 pp. |
Terms of Use | Open |