The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Robert V. Green. He was born in Missouri in 1920. After high school, he attended Northwestern University at night while working as a bell hop at the Palmer House in Chicago. In June 1942, he entered flight training and learned to fly B-17s and B-29s. He was assigned to the 3rd Photographic Recon Squadron and flew over Hiroshima after the war. He also relates his experience of flying into a typhoon to record weather conditions. He was discharged in 1946 but reenlisted in 1947 in the US Air Force and was assigned to the Military Air Transport Command. Green participated in the Berlin Airlift, flying a C-54. Afterward, he received B-36 training. He tells of some of the experiences during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and an assignment to Vietnam. After serving a few months at Tan Son Nhut, Vietnam, he returned to the United States and was discharged as a colonel in 1972.

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Robert V. Green. He was born in Missouri in 1920. After high school, he attended Northwestern University at night while working as a bell hop at the Palmer House in Chicago. In June 1942, he entered flight training and learned to fly B-17s and B-29s. He was assigned to the 3rd Photographic Recon Squadron and flew over Hiroshima after the war. He also relates his experience of flying into a typhoon to record weather conditions. He was discharged in 1946 but reenlisted in 1947 in the US Air Force and was assigned to the Military Air Transport Command. Green participated in the Berlin Airlift, flying a C-54. Afterward, he received B-36 training. He tells of some of the experiences during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and an assignment to Vietnam. After serving a few months at Tan Son Nhut, Vietnam, he returned to the United States and was discharged as a colonel in 1972.