Oral history interview with Richard Mulberry, Jr., 1999 November 15.

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Oral history interview with Richard Mulberry, Jr., 1999 November 15.

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Interview with Richard Mulberry, Jr., a Marine Corps veteran (VMSB-243), concerning his experiences as a dive-bomber pilot in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Flight training, Opa Locka Naval Air Station, Florida, 1941-42; meeting and courting his future wife; advanced flight training, Jacksonville Naval Air Station, Florida, 1942; decision to take his commission with the Marine Corps; assignment to VMSB-243, Santa Barbara Naval Air Station, California, 1942; character sketches of individual members of VMSB-243; his description of the characteristics of the SBD dive-bomber; anti-submarine patrols at Palmyra Island, 1943; assignment to Munda, New Georgia, October, 1943; bombing missions to Bougainville; ground living conditions; bombing missions to Rabaul from Piva II, Bougainville, 1944; move to Green Island and additional missions to Rabaul, 1944; comments about Japanese flak and antiaircraft fire; bombing missions to Rabaul from Emirau, 1944; his return to the States, November, 1944; postwar military career; his appointment as an inspector general for the Department of the Interior, 1981-85; personal relations with and comments about President Ronald Reagan. Appendix includes VMSB-243 travel itinerary (one leaf), survival manual titled "So you are going to the south Pacific?" (eighteen leaves), listing of thirty-eight members of VMSB-243 (one leaf), map of area covered by VMSB-243 (one leaf), "Life history of a Marine Scout Bombing Squadron" (seven leaves), one leaf showing photocopies of two Naval certificates, commercial pilot's license, and membership card in "Dick Dastardly's Vulture Squadron," photocopy of flight log (one hundred-fifty leaves), facsimiles of "Combat Swimming Certification" and "Survival Training Certificate" (one leaf), and facsimile of interviewee's appointment to the rank of Captain (one leaf). After chief source of information facsimiles of photo taken of interviewee in flight suit from November 1943 while stationed at Munda, New Georgia and shoulder patch of VMSB-243 (one leaf).

137, [149] leaves : facsims. ; 29 cm.

University of North Texas Library, UNT

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University of North Texas Library, UNT

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