Oral history interview with Robert W. Wilson, 2001 June 06.

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Oral history interview with Robert W. Wilson, 2001 June 06.

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Interview with Robert W. Wilson, air line pilot and Army Air Forces veteran (69th Bomb Squadron, 42nd Bomb Group, 13th Air Force), concerning his experiences as a B-25 pilot in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Pre-war job experiences; enlistment in the Army Air Forces, November, 30, 1942; basic training, Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1943; college preparatory courses, Geneva College, Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, 1943; primary flight training, Canton, Mississippi, 1943; basic flight training, Gunter, Alabama, 1943; advanced flight training, Jackson, Mississippi, 1943-44; B-25 transition training, Columbia, South Carolina, 1944; assignment as a replacement pilot to Sansapor, New Guinea, 1944; his descriptions of various missions, 1944-45; flying conditions over the Owen Stanley Mountains; Operation OBOE, June, 1945; leave time in Sydney, Australia, 1945; the move to Palawan, Philippines, March, 1945; missions to French Indo-China, 1945; attitudes and feelings toward the deaths of comrades; postwar adjustments. Appendix consists of photocopy of flight log (one leaf), a photocopy of one page from "Chapter 20" from an unknown book (one leaf), photocopies of personal letters (eight leaves).

141, [10] leaves : facsims. ; 29 cm.

University of North Texas Library, UNT

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University of North Texas Library, UNT

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