OH 1264 | Oral History

OH 1264

Businessman. His experiences as a B-17 pilot in the European Theater during World War II. Pre-flight, primary flight, and advanced flight training in the U. S., 1943-44; training in the B-17 at Roswell, New Mexico, 1944; comments about individual members of his B-17 crew; voyage to England on the Queen Elizabeth, 1944; assignment to Station 167, Ridgewell England; additional flight training out of Ridgewell; his first combat mission, December, 1944; description of a typical mission; bombing tactics; German flak; Berlin raids; his plane hit by flak over Brux, Czechoslovakia, and forced to make crash landing in Belgium, February 14, 1944; convalescence from wounds in Liege, Belgium; return to duty for seven more missions; stateside duty after V-E Day; attitudes toward the German people and the morality of bombing civilians.

About this Oral History

Physical Description 99 pp. plus documents (4 pp.)
Terms of Use Open
Interviewer(s) Peter B. Lane, Richard W. Byrd
Date of Interview August 17, 1998

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