Oral history interview with Elmer Wulf, 1998 August 17.

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Oral history interview with Elmer Wulf, 1998 August 17.

Interview with Elmer Wulf, Army Air Forces veteran (535th Squadron, 381st Bomb Group, 1st Air Division, 8th Air Force), concerning his experiences as a B-17 pilot in the European Theater during World War II. Pre-flight, primary flight, and advanced flight training in the U. S., 1943-44; training in the B-17 at Roswell, New Mexico, 1944; comments about individual members of his B-17 crew; voyage to England on the Queen Elizabeth, 1944; assignment to Station 167, Ridgewell England; additional flight training out of Ridgewell; his first combat mission, December, 1944; description of a typical mission; bombing tactics; German flak; Berlin raids; his plane hit by flak over Brux, Czechoslovakia, and forced to make crash landing in Belgium, February 14, 1944; convalescence from wounds in Liege, Belgium; return to duty for seven more missions; stateside duty after V-E Day; attitudes toward the German people and the morality of bombing civilians. Appendix includes two photocopies from an unknown book and two photocopies giving information on the B-17.

99, [5] leaves : facsims. ; 29 cm.

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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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United States. Army. Air Corps

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United States. Army Air Forces. Bombardment Group, 381st.

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Byrd, R.W. (Richard W.)

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Wulf, Elmer., 1921-

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Lane, Peter B., 1939-

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