OH 1665 | Oral History

OH 1665

For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. Childhood experiences on a succession of Michigan farms during the Great Depression, including the Sharon Hollow Farm associated with Ford Motor Company; developing interest in aviation; work at Willow Run bomber plant assembling B-24s; enlistment in Army Air Forces; assignment to college training detachment at University of Tennessee-Knoxville; training as aviation cadet and assignment to training as bomber pilot; reassignment to training as gunner at Tyndall Field, Florida; transfer to base at Lincoln, Nebraska; 1946 discharge; 1947 re-enlistment; experience at Williams AFB, Arizona, training Chinese pilot cadets; transfer into weather observation and atomic testing assignments; assignments in UK, Germany, and Hawaii.

About this Oral History

Physical Description 52 pp.
Terms of Use Open
Interviewer(s) Lauren Bristow
Date of Interview October 25, 2007

Additional Resources

The following lists of links include general-purpose research sites that may have materials related to oral history research methodolgies, or the topic you are interested in.