Oral history interview with Issac Hightower, 2007 October 09.

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Oral history interview with Issac Hightower, 2007 October 09.

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Interview with Issac Hightower, an Army Air Forces veteran (5th Army Air Force), concerning his childhood in Fort Worth; education in Fort Worth schools and at Texas Christian University; decision to enroll in Army Air Forces; training at bases in San Antonio, Greenville, and Waco, Tex.; assignment to a B-26 unit and later to a B-17 unit; service at bases in Italy and England; Twenty-nine combat missions in skies over Germany and Central Europe; readjustment to life in the U.S. Appendix consists of photocopies of newspaper clippings, photographs, a telegram, and details of a rescue of fellow airmen from a burning plane (fifteen leaves).

19, [16] leaves ; 29 cm.

University of North Texas Library, UNT

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University of North Texas Library, UNT

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