Oral history interview with Harry Strawn, 1997 August 16.

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Oral history interview with Harry Strawn, 1997 August 16.

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Interview with Harry C. Strawn, Army Air Forces veteran (31st Fighter Group, 12th Air Force; and 413th Fighter Group, 14th Air Force), concerning his experiences as a fighter pilot in the European, Mediterranean, and Pacific Theaters during World War II. Primary training, Muskogee, Oklahoma, 1940; secondary training, Goodfellow Field, San Angelo, Texas, 1941; advanced training, Brooks Field, San Antonio, Texas, 1941; assignment to the 31st Fighter Group, 1942; training in the Bell P-39 Airacobra; move to England and assignment to fly a Spitfire; Dieppe Raid, August 19, 1942; North African Campaign, 1942-43; comments about General George S. Patton; combat against French Foreign Legion troops and award of Distinguished Flying Cross by General James Doolittle; downing of his plane by antiaircraft fire and his capture by German troops, April 17, 1943; treatment of his wounds by a German military surgeon; liberation by British troops eight weeks later; further recuperation in British and American hospitals; repatriation to the U. S. and marriage, 1943; assignment to P-47 squadron during the invasion of Okinawa, April, 1945; escort missions for B-29s; napalm raids against Japanese towns and villages on Kyushu; observations of the Japanese surrender delegation at his base on Ie Shima prior to the formal surrender in Tokyo Bay on September 2, 1945. Appendix includes the introduction to "In a now forgotten sky: the 31st fighter group in WW2" by Dennis C. Kucera.

70, [6] leaves : facsims. ; 29 cm.

University of North Texas Library, UNT

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University of North Texas Library, UNT

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University of North Texas. Oral History Collection.

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World War II European Theater Oral History Project.

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Strawn, Henry C., 1918-

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Alexander, William John, 1855-1944

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William John Alexadner was born of Scottish parents in Hamilton, Canada West, in 1855. He was educated in Hamilton and at the University of Toronto where he won a scholarship which enabled him to study English at the University of Wales College in Charlottetown for two years. He obtained a PhD in Greek And Philology at the newly constituted Johns Hopkins Unviersity in 1833, and spent a further year studying modern languages in Heidelberg. Dr. Alexander was appointed professor of English language...

Strawn, Harry C., 1918-

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United States. Army. Air Corps

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