Oral history interview with Charles E. Wood, 1997 January 12.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Oral history interview with Charles E. Wood, 1997 January 12.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/320529470

Interview with Charles E. Wood, Army Air Forces veteran (866th Bomb Squadron, 493rd Bomb Group, 8th Air Force), concerning his experiences as a B-24 gunner in the European Theater during World War II. Enlistment in the Aviation Cadet Program, 1942; gunnery school, Tindall Field, Florida, and Biggs Field, El Paso, Texas, 1943; assignment to the 493rd Bomb Group, 1943; stationing at Debach, England, April, 1944; operations on D-Day; mission to Merseberg, Germany, November 2, 1944; bombing of V-1 and V-2 sites; encounters with German jet aircraft; ground-support missions; return to the States.

55 leaves ; 29 cm.

University of North Texas Library, UNT

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7335485

University of North Texas Library, UNT

Related Entities

There are 6 Entities related to this resource.

University of North Texas. Oral History Collection.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63c6r4q (corporateBody)

World War II European Theater Oral History Project.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6233kn5 (corporateBody)

United States. Army Air Forces

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6wb616q (person)

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...

Alexander, William John, 1855-1944

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6cr5t2j (person)

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...

Wood, Charles, 1924 November 6-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6fv1nfj (person)

United States. Army Air Forces. Bomb Squadron, 866th.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6b91bz3 (corporateBody)