Letters and postcards, 1944-1945 [electronic resource]

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Letters and postcards, 1944-1945 [electronic resource]

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Correspendence of Paul Fergot, a U.S. Army Air Corps navigator during World War II. Fergot was shot down over Italy in 1944 and held as a prisoner of war in Germany until his release in 1945.

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United States. Army Air Forces

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The Army Air Forces War Adjustment Course was established in 1944 at several locations in the U.S., one of which was Harvard Business School. The HBS program involved eight weeks of training in the business of contract terminations, cutbacks, and property disposal necessitated by changes in Army Air Forces tactical requirements. Approximately 4,200 officers received instruction throughout the country, about one sixth of them at HBS. The goal of the program was to train men for participation in t...

Fergot, Paul L.,

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Fergot (1922- ), born in Embarrass (Wisconsin) and raised in Plainfield and Wautoma (Wisconsin), served with the 15th Army Air Forces, 460th Group during World War II. He flew twenty missions before being shot down behind enemy lines in Italy where he subsequently evaded capture for two months then spent the remaining time in Stalag Luft I. From the description of Oral history interview with Paul L. Fergot [sound recording], 1996. (Wisconsin Veterans Museum R...