Surveyor Bill Jett memories of World War II [manuscript], undated.

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Surveyor Bill Jett memories of World War II [manuscript], undated.

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Bill Jett's memories were recorded by [Carol Bradley and Amy Dalton?] He briefly describes work as a surveyor for the Richmond Army Airbase at Byrd Field and the dummy base at Elko before he was drafted in the army; basic training at Fort Lee; voyage to Southampton; surveying English airfields, building heavy runways for bombers, German strafing, and English friends; airfield reconnaissance work in France, Holland, and Belgium; mutilating a dead German soldier, German snipers and stragglers, being wounded by a German buzz bomb,trading C-rations for wine, and the plight of Germans who were victims of circumstance; handing out peanuts in Maastricht, Christmas day bombing in 1944, superiority of German bombers but lack of fuel, the shelling of Aachen and close calls; and postwar life including teaching surveying at Virginia Tech, Korean War call-up and teaching surveying and pontoon construction.

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Virginia Tech (VT), formally Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (VPI), is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia. In 1872, with federal funds provided by the Morrill Act of 1862, the Reconstruction-era Virginia General Assembly purchased the facilities of Preston and Olin Institute and 250 acres of nearby Solitude Farm. The commonwealth incorporated a new institution on the site, a state-supported land-grant military institute named ...

Jett, Bill.

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