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Oral History Interview with Richard Bennett, November 15, 2001

Description: Interview with Richard (Dick) Bennett, a pilot during World War II. He discusses his enlistment in the Army Air Corps, basic training and flight school. He then went to a base in South Carolina to learn to fly B-25s. At Fort Myers, Florida he flew B-26 bombers and trained to fly them off of aircraft carriers so they could drop torpedos on the Japanese fleet during naval battles. He traveled across the Pacific to Brisbane only to be told that they didn't have B-26s for the crews; the colonel the… more
Date: November 15, 2001
Duration: 1 hour 17 minutes 09 seconds
Creator: Cox, Floyd & Bennett, Richard
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Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Members of the Women's Auxiliary Corps Fishing]

Description: Photograph of WAC members fishing with poles on a small boat and from a dock in Fort Myers, Florida. On the left stand two women on the curved wooden dock with fishing poles, the first one in a white bathing suit and the other in full uniform. On the right in a small boat sits a woman in a black bathing suit and no fishing pole and to her right sit two women in uniform with fishing poles.
Date: 1943~
Creator: United States. Army Air Forces
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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