| Interviewee | WHITSON, Warren, Jr. (b. 1918) |
| Professions | Businessman |
| Military Service | U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran, 493rd Bomb Group, 860th Bomb Squadron, 8th Air Force |
| Interview ID # | OH 1109 |
| Date(s) of interview | |
| Description | Businessman. His experiences as a B-17 pilot in the European Theater during World War II. Pre-flight and flight training, 1943; assignment to 493rd Bomb Group, 860th Bomb Squadron, at Stone, England; characteristics of the B-17G; first mission, Berlin; problems with flak; tactics to counter German radar; engine trouble and crash landing in eastern Germany; rescue by Soviet troops; trip by C-47 back to England via Poltava, Teheran, Cairo, Tripoli, Dijon; assignment to new crew; shot down by German fighter planes on seventeenth mission; brief experience as POW; liberation by British troops. |
| Interviewer(s) | Ronald E. Marcello |
| Physical Description | 50 pp. |
| Terms of Use | Open |
