Oral history interview with John H. Luckadoo, 1999 June 18.

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Oral history interview with John H. Luckadoo, 1999 June 18.

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Interview with John H. Luckadoo, Army Air Forces veteran (350th and 351st Bomb Squadrons, 100th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force), concerning his experiences as a B-17 pilot in the European Theater during World War II. Primary, basic, and advanced training in the U.S., 1942-43; assignment to the B-17; stationing at Thorpe-Abbotts, England, 1943; his first combat mission; subsequent missions; German antiaircraft defenses and fighter tactics; raid to Bremen, October 8, 1943; defensive measures against German antiaircraft defenses; heavy bomber losses and effects on morale; training replacement crews; postwar effects of his experience.

95 leaves ; 29 cm.

University of North Texas Library, UNT

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