Oral History Interview with Luther Victory, April 10, 2001 Page: 1 of 10

                                
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VICTORY, Luther
AIR FORCE
Singh, Bobby
April 10, 2001
October 22, 2003
Terry Moore
World War II; B-17 Tailgunner; Staff Sergeant/ Armored 1st
Class Aerial Gunner; German POW-Stalag 17 in Austria

How old were you when went into the war effort?
Eighteen.
Were you drafted, or did you volunteer?
Volunteered. December 7th was when Japan attacked Hawaii, and I tried to enlist
on December 8th, the next day. I was told I wasn't old enough, so I had to wait
until May of '42. I had to get my birth certificate changed, which you can do
it's no big problem. All you do is get three people to sign a statement that you
were born on a certain day, and there you go-they'd change your birth
certificate. I went in on May 26, 1942.
Was there more volunteering going on, or were more people drafted?
No, no. You couldn't hardly get near a recruitment place because it was so
overloaded. Everybody wanted to go in.
What was the morale of people that were going off to war?
Great.
What were some of your experiences during your training?
I was in the Air Force, and you went through basic training, which was two
armory schools-machine guns and all that good stuff, and I went to an aerial
gunnery school.
How long did the training last?

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