OH 1415 | Oral History

OH 1415

Airline pilot. His experiences as a B-25 pilot in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Pre-war job experiences; enlistment in the Army Air Forces, November, 30, 1942; basic training, Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1943; college preparatory courses, Geneva College, Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, 1943; primary flight training, Canton, Mississippi, 1943; basic flight training, Gunter, Alabama, 1943; advanced flight training, Jackson, Mississippi, 1943-44; B-25 transition training, Columbia, South Carolina, 1944; assignment as a replacement pilot to Sansapor, New Guinea, 1944; his descriptions of various missions, 1944-45; flying conditions over the Owen Stanley Mountains; Operation OBOE, June, 1945; leave time in Sydney, Australia, 1945; the move to Palawan, Philippines, March, 1945; missions to French Indo-China, 1945; attitudes and feelings toward the deaths of comrades; postwar adjustments.

About this Oral History

Physical Description 141 pp. plus documents (47 pp.)
Terms of Use Open
Interviewer(s) Ronald E. Marcello
Date of Interview June 6, 2001

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