Oral History Interview with Jean Adams, September 17, 2017 Page: 6

                                
(Laughing) I was interesting. I can't remember the other things. I do remember that
my husband was in the South Pacific for he was there for twenty-two months.
You had joined him in California. Where in California?
Hamilton Field. He had a group of P-39 (Aira-cobra) out there. He left three months
after I got there. He went to the Pacific, Guadalcanal, the Solomons and the Philippines.
He had a group of P-39s and then they got P-38s (fighter planes).

He was over there 22 months; did he go back to California?

No, back to Texas. He was supposed to come back after twenty-two months, on leave;
my father had retired and was living in Portland, Oregon. During that twenty-two
month I was involved in the Service Club program. When he came back, he was
supposed to go back and be involved in the invasion of Japan, but they dropped the
Atomic Bomb, so he didn't have go back. So, I am very glad they dropped that bomb.
So, he came back and went to Texas?
Yes, we went to Waco, Texas where he had a Wing that was being dismantled. They
were closing the base. There were so many pilots that they were manning the gates.
From there we went to Arizona and from there we went to Iran where he was Air
Advisor to the Shah of Iran, for a couple of years.
I had a baby, while we over there and so he had dual citizenship. Oh, my gosh, we went
to Washington, D.C., a lot. Then we went to Viet Nam. We were there for two and one-
half years.
You didn't join him there, did you?

Yes, with the children.
What year was that?
It was from 1963 to 1965. We were evacuated from there.
In 1965?

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