The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Robert Morrison. Morrison joined the Army Air Forces in December 1942 and was sent to Chicago to train with aviation cadets. He received further training in Santa Ana, Tucson, and Phoenix. His night-flying was done in the B-25, guided by a radar operator. The casualty rate was extremely high from crashing into unseen objects. Upon completion of his training, Morrison became an instructor in flying the BT-13 and the AT-6. He was then sent for training on the Northrop P-61 Black Widow. In preparation for the dropping of the atomic bomb, Morrison participated in experiments for radar-guided bombing in overcast conditions. His flying career ended when the atomic bomb was dropped. Morrison returned home and became a dentist. One of his longtime patients had manned a navigational hut in Arizona that Morrison routinely flew over during his training. When Morrison realized the connection during an appointment, he gave his old call signal, which caught the patient quite by surprise. Morrison went on to travel extensively and met Paul Tibbets and pilots from the Doolittle Raid, whom he describes as a rough bunch.

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Robert Morrison. Morrison joined the Army Air Forces in December 1942 and was sent to Chicago to train with aviation cadets. He received further training in Santa Ana, Tucson, and Phoenix. His night-flying was done in the B-25, guided by a radar operator. The casualty rate was extremely high from crashing into unseen objects. Upon completion of his training, Morrison became an instructor in flying the BT-13 and the AT-6. He was then sent for training on the Northrop P-61 Black Widow. In preparation for the dropping of the atomic bomb, Morrison participated in experiments for radar-guided bombing in overcast conditions. His flying career ended when the atomic bomb was dropped. Morrison returned home and became a dentist. One of his longtime patients had manned a navigational hut in Arizona that Morrison routinely flew over during his training. When Morrison realized the connection during an appointment, he gave his old call signal, which caught the patient quite by surprise. Morrison went on to travel extensively and met Paul Tibbets and pilots from the Doolittle Raid, whom he describes as a rough bunch.

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Douglas G. Phillips. Phillips was born in April 1917 in Rochester, New York. While in high school he joined the Naval Reserve, doing a cruise on the USS Tattnall (DD- 125). He then attended the Merchant Marine Academy. After graduation, with his degree and experience, he was commissioned a lieutenant (j.g.) in the US Navy. He reported aboard USS Ramsay (DM-16) at Pearl Harbor on 6 December 1941. Ramsay was moored near USS Utah (BB-31) and was able to get underway during the Japanese attack to search for midget submarines. In January 1942 Ramsay steamed to Samoa to pick up mines stored there since 1918 and use them to mine harbors in Fiji and the New Hebrides. By this time, Phillips was Chief Engineer. From the South Pacific, they went to the Aleutians for eight months. While there, Phillips received orders to the Navy Post Graduate School in Annapolis. After completing his Naval Engineering Design curriculum, he was assigned to the commissioning crew of the USS Bremerton (CA-130) as assistant engineer. When the Bremerton made it to the Pacific, the war had ended and Phillips was Chief Engineer. …