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…
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Date:
November 15, 2001
Duration:
1 hour 17 minutes 09 seconds
Creator:
Cox, Floyd & Bennett, Richard
Partner:
National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation