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Oral History Interview with Warren Whitson, Jr., November 22, 1995
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Warren Whitson, Jr., a businessman and an Army Air Corps veteran (493rd Bomb Group, 860th Bomb Squadron, 8th Air Force), concerning his experiences as a B-17 pilot in the European Theater during World War II. Whitson discusses his pre-flight and flight training in 1943, his assignment to the 493rd Bomb Group, 860th Bomb Squadron at Stone, England, the characteristics of the B-17G, his first mission in Berlin, problems with flak, tactics to counter German radar, his engine trouble and crash landing in eastern Germany, his rescue by Russian troops, his trip by C-47 back to England via Poltava, Tehran, Cairo, Tripoli, and Dijon, his assignment to a new crew, being shot down by German fighter planes on his seventeenth mission, his brief experiences as a POW, and his liberation by British troops.
Date:
November 22, 1995
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Whitson, Warren, Jr.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Colony Leader (The Colony, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 1, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 22, 1995
Weekly newspaper from The Colony, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
November 22, 1995
Creator:
Watterson, Tim
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History