Oral History Interview with William Shiflette, March 18, 1976 Page: 4
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4Marcello:
Shiflette:
Marcello:
Shiflette:Let me ask you a memory tester at this stage. Describe
what Wheeler Field looked like at that time as best you
can remember in terms of the facilities and barracks
and things of that nature.
Well, of course, headquarters set by itself off up on
the hill from the main barracks, and along the flight
line there was the . . . four . . . five hangars, I
believe, five hangars. There was the 19th Pursuit and
then the 6th, and then there was one building used for
technical school and so forth and another building for
engineering and another one for quartermaster. I
believe on an east-west direction on the island--I'm
not positive about the directions anymore--but anyway,
we had a cement runway . . . one runway running east
and west, and the rest of it was grass. And then there
were three main barracks and then one large barracks
called the 18th Air Base Group, and then, of course,
there was headquarters, and then towards Shofield
Barracks were all the enlisted, noncom quarters and the
officers'quarters. You want me to continue with the
period prior to December 7?
Yes, I'm not to Pearl Harbor yet.
We had been the whole Hawaiian Department, that is, the
Army . . . and, of course, the Air Corps at that time
was part of the Army and was an outgrowth of the Signal
Corps--Air Service and the Signal Corps.
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Marcello, Ronald E. & Shiflette, William. Oral History Interview with William Shiflette, March 18, 1976, book, March 18, 1976; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1955180/m1/6/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Oral History Program.