Oral history interview with Arthur Stewart, Sr., 2007 October 25.

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Oral history interview with Arthur Stewart, Sr., 2007 October 25.

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Interview with Arthur Stewart, an Army Air Forces veteran, concerning his childhood experiences on a succession of Michigan farms during the Great Depression, including the Sharon Hollow Farm associated with Ford Motor Co.; developing interest in aviation; work at Willow Run bomber plant assembling B-24s; enlistment in Army Air Forces; assignment to college training detachment at University of Tennessee-Knoxville; training as aviation cadet and assignment to training as bomber pilot; reassignment to training as gunner at Tyndall Field, Fla.; transfer to base at Lincoln, Neb.; 1946 discharge. 1947 re-enlistment; experience at Williams AFB, Ariz., training Chinese pilots cadets; transfer into weather observation and atomic testing assignments; assignments in UK, Germany, and Hawaii. Appendix consists of military history of interviewee [six leaves].

55, [7] leaves ; 29 cm.

University of North Texas Library, UNT

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University of North Texas Library, UNT

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