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Spivey, Leonard Segment 14
Leonard Spivey was at the airfield for a few days. They were at the airfield on V-E Day. All hell was breaking loose on...
Noack, John Segment 14
John Noack’s navigator wrote a letter home in code. Noack was allowed to write two letters home per month. They were...
Noack, John Segment 15
John Noack was able to keep a fair distribution system set up in his barracks to ensure everybody got a decent share....
Noack, John Segment 16
John Noack was flown out of Barth, Germany and taken to a camp in France. They stayed there for about three or four...
Noack, John Segment 17
[Annotator’s Note: Interviewer explains to Noack about an item in The National WWII Museum's collection.] John Noack...
Anderson, Clarence "Bud" Segment 2
Clarence Anderson's friend Jack Stacker joined the Air Corps a year after him. Jack was a P-38 pilot and was killed on...
Loevsky, Louis Segment 2
Loevsky's motivation for joining the service was that he felt that the treatment of the Jews in Europe, and by Hitler...
Luckadoo, John Segment 2
John Luckadoo and the other cadets were segregated in advanced flight training between single engine and twin engine....
Leahr, John Segment 2
The training at Tuskegee was rigorous. There was a lot of hazing. Leahr believes that they were trained as good as...
Sabol, Emil Segment 2
Sabol was flying at 28,500 feet when he was shot down. He had heard about other guys being shot at by fighter planes on...
Shoens, Robert Segment 2
The Army Air Corps knew that they needed to get the best pilots. Robert Shoens took his training in January of February...
Onesi, Anthony "Tony" Segment 2
Onesi recalls the aircraft flying in a very tight V formation to protect each other. They bombed their targets during...
Tyler, Kermit Segment 2
Tyler took primary and basic training at Randolph Field then advanced training at Kelley Field [Annotator's Note: San...
Yellin, Jerome "Jerry" Segment 2
In January 1944, Yellin was sent to Thunderbird Field in Arizona. That was where he took his primary training. He was...
Rankin, Robert "Shorty" Segment 2
Rankin left McChord Field on 14 July 1942 and arrived in Santa Ana, California in 15 July 1942 for preflight training....
Sherman, Richard Segment 2
Instead of heading into the mountains, the Chinese man took them to Canton. They spent several days in Canton. After...
Old Coyote, Barney Segment 2
By the time Barney Old Coyote got out of the service the letter [Annotators Note: see Barney Old Coyote Segment 1] had...
Henderson, William Segment 2
Henderson flew as a tail gunner on a B-17 [Annotator’s Note: American B-17 Flying Fortress bomber] until his last...
Pisanos, Steve Segment 2
On 25 March 1938, the Greek freighter Steve Pisanos got a job aboard steamed to Oran, Algeria, in North Africa. He...
Dupuy, Marsden "Pic" Segment 2
When Dupuy got his wings, his sisters came down for the ceremony. After the ceremony he received a thirty day leave...
Holloman, William Segment 2
In 1940 Holloman had attempted to volunteer for the Canadian Air Force. He filled out the application and his father...
Spivey, Leonard Segment 2
Leonard Spivey did very well in his training and was qualified to continue training as a navigator. Spivey went to...
Noack, John Segment 2
John Noack came close to washing out one time and that was in basic. One weekend they wanted to go home and see their...
Baynham, James Segment 2
Baynham was based at Tibenham, England where there were numerous airfields that were three or four miles apart. Every...
Thatcher, David "Dave" Segment 2
Thatcher watched and was actually in a few of the B-25's that were practicing taking off from a short runway. It gave...
Bollinger, Ardell Segment 2
Ardel Bollinger did not get along with the Colonel in England. When Bollinger asked for a recommendation to join the...
Jones, David "Davey" Segment 2
Jones' group would fly patrols up and down he coast out of McCord. He liked that flying because there were no controls...
Van Kirk,Theodore "Dutch" Segment 2
Theodore Van Kirk recalls his first combat mission in Europe in B-17s [Annotator's note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress...
Candelaria, Richard Segment 2
Richard Candelaria credits the 8th Air Force for never having been turned back on a mission by enemy action. Enemy...
McKee, Ralph Segment 2
McKee relates the story of how his new crew lost their original Navigator and Bombardier when they bailed out of their...
Keema, John Segment 2
John Keema’s preflight training was essentially basic training and consisted of a lot of classroom work, marching, PT [...
Armanini, Joseph Segment 2
Joseph Armanini was assigned to bombardier school. He wanted to be a bombardier because as a bombardier you saw action...
Gatewood, Joel Segment 2
From Nebraska they flew to Bangor, Maine. There were 36 planes that flew out of Maine to go overseas. They were...
Johnson, Oscar Segment 2
Oscar Johnson went to Kingman, Arizona for gunnery school and then to Lincoln, Nebraska to assemble the crew. From...
Cole, Richard Segment 2
On the trip from Pendleton to Columbia [Annotators Note: Oregon to South Carolina in December 1941] Richard Cole was...
Kassal, Bentley Segment 2
Kassal enlisted in January of 1942 and was assigned to the Army Air Forces. He was sent to Camp Upton at Yaphank, Long...

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