Harold J. Bradley, Jr. letters to parents, 1944.

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Harold J. Bradley, Jr. letters to parents, 1944.

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Letters from Harold J. Bradley, Jr. to his parents Mr. H. J. Bradley and Mrs. Ruth C. Bradley of Newark Valley, New York, in April to December of 1944. "Junior" was a pilot in training for the Army Air Force and was stationed in Greensboro, North Carolina, Huntington, West Virginia, and Foster Field, an advanced fighter pilot school near Victoria, Texas. Junior's letters detail the life of a young enlisted airman beginning training near the end of World War II. Topics include uniforms, military food, furloughs, WACS, activities on base and at the USO in Victoria, and concerns for his parent's welfare and upkeep of their dairy farm in his absence.

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Southern Methodist University DeGolyer Library

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United States. Army Air Forces

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The Army Air Forces War Adjustment Course was established in 1944 at several locations in the U.S., one of which was Harvard Business School. The HBS program involved eight weeks of training in the business of contract terminations, cutbacks, and property disposal necessitated by changes in Army Air Forces tactical requirements. Approximately 4,200 officers received instruction throughout the country, about one sixth of them at HBS. The goal of the program was to train men for participation in t...

Bradley, Harold J.

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