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[Links Chapter Documentation: Program from the Annual Meeting of The Links Foundation, Inc. - June 1988] (open access)

[Links Chapter Documentation: Program from the Annual Meeting of The Links Foundation, Inc. - June 1988]

Program of events and information packet created for the annual meeting of The Links Foundation, Inc. held in Miami Beach, Florida on June 28, 1988. The information packet includes a budget report for the The Links Foundation and a list of the recommended recipients of grants-in-aid. In addition to handwritten notes made on the program of events is a full page of notes made by a member of the San Antonio chapter of The Links, Inc.
Date: June 28, 1988
Creator: Links, Inc. San Antonio Chapter.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Charles H. Tucker, April 18, 2017 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Charles H. Tucker, April 18, 2017

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Charles H. Tucker from Orange, California. He discusses volunteering for the U.S. Army Air Corps in 1943 and going to basic training in Miami Beach, Florida, then going to Aircraft Armament School in Buckley Field, Colorado, and finally air gunnery school in Fort Myers, Florida. In air gunnery school, Mr. Tucker learned to shoot in B-17 by shooting into the Gulf of Mexico. After gunnery school he was sent to the B-25 crew training at Columbia, South Carolina for 5 months. After Mr. Tucker completed his training, he was transferred to Dacca to a B-25 base and joined the 10th Air Force, the 12th Bomb Group. When he arrived his crew pilots were reassigned, and Mr. Tucker was not able to fly much until he was assigned to a regular crew again. Mr. Tucker was put in the 729th bomb squadron tasked with supporting the British 14th Army against the Japanese forces in Burma. The campaign he was involved in ended in May 1945 with the capture of Rangoon, the main city of Burma and Mr. tucker was in one of the squadron planes that flew over the …
Date: April 18, 2017
Creator: Tucker, Charles H.
System: The Portal to Texas History