The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with L.V. Ruffin. Ruffin joined the Army Air Forces on 21 June 1941. After boot camp he worked as an Athletic Instructor at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona. He completed Primary Flying School in Stamford, Texas and Advanced Flying School in Lubbock, Texas. He provides some details of his flight training. In November of 1942 he flew to Sookerating, India. He provides details of flying over The Hump more than one hundred times in a C-46, and life in general at the base. He returned to the U.S. in July of 1944. In late 1944 through 1945 he completed Instrument School and transported injured soldiers within the U.S. He was discharged in December of 1945.

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