Oral history interview with Nick Sanchez, 1999 February 16.

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Oral history interview with Nick Sanchez, 1999 February 16.

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Interview with Nick Sanchez, a radio/TV engineer and Army Air Forces veteran (15th Squadron, 4th Combat Cargo Group), concerning his experiences as a radio operator on a C-46 in the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. Enlistment and radio school, 1942; assignment to the 15th Squadron, 1943; transition training in the C-46, Bowman Field, Louisville, Kentucky, 1943; assignment to Sylhet, India, and flying supplies to the British 14th Army in Burma, 1944-45; transfer to the Air Transport Command at Myitkyina, Burma, 1945; flying supplies over "The Hump" to Kunming, China, 1945; bailing out over the Himalayas after his plane caught fire, 1945; his rescue by Chinese peasants and his eventual reunion with his squadron in Myitkyina; his postwar career in radio/TV. Appendix consists of photocopies of the following: a narrative of the 15th Combat Cargo Squadron (three leaves), an entry titled "A diary of a bailout" (six leaves), and the official statement of his bailout (three leaves).

26, [13] leaves : facsims. ; 29 cm.

University of North Texas Library, UNT

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University of North Texas Library, UNT

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