Wilson, Robert W., 1923-. Oral history interview with Robert W. Wilson, 2001 June 06.
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Oral history interview with Robert W. Wilson, 2001 June 06.
Interview with Robert W. Wilson, air line pilot and Army Air Forces veteran (69th Bomb Squadron, 42nd Bomb Group, 13th Air Force), concerning 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. Appendix consists of photocopy of flight log (one leaf), a photocopy of one page from "Chapter 20" from an unknown book (one leaf), photocopies of personal letters (eight leaves).
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141, [10] leaves : facsims. ; 29 cm.
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