Oral history interview with Richard O Stewart, 2000 August 28.

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Stewart, Richard O., 1922-. Oral history interview with Richard O Stewart, 2000 August 28.

Oral history interview with Richard O Stewart, 2000 August 28.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/352887253

Interview with Richard O. Stewart, an airline pilot and Army Air Forces veteran (419th Night Fighter Squadron, 18th Fighter Group, 13th Air Force), concerning his experiences as a fighter pilot in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Enlistment in the Aviation Cadet Program, 1942; influence of Charles Lindbergh's non-stop Atlantic flight on his goal to become a pilot; basic training, Santa Ana, California, 1942; primary flight training, Dos Palos, California, 1942; basic flight training, Marana, Arizona, 1942; advanced flight training, Williams Field, Arizona, 1942-43; basic and advanced night fighter training, Orlando and Kissimmee, Florida, 1943; assignment to the 419th Night Fighter Squadron, 1943; assignment to the 18th Fighter Group, Guadalcanal, 1943; living conditions on Guadalcanal; searchlight and intruder missions while flying the P-38; his strafing of a Japanese patrol along the coast of Bougainville; his "kill" of a Japanese Betty bomber on New Year's Eve, 1944; his transition to the P-61; Japanese ground attacks against his airbase on Bougainville; his description of the flying characteristics of the P-61; his promotion to squadron commander while in the Philippines, 1944; night reconnaissance and intruder missions in the Philippines, 1944-45; postwar career. Appendix consists of a photocopy from a book (one leaf).

143, [2] leaves : facsims. ; 29 cm.

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