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Catalog number: VIS 201.0726
In this interview, William Rutledge Lounsbery recalls his experiences serving in the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) in the Pacific during World War II and briefly describes some of his later work in nuclear testing. He explains how he entered the USAAF in 1943 and was assigned as navigator on a B-29 bomber. He describes various training assignments; being assigned to a crew; and taking the aircraft to Guam, including a stopover in California during which many personal effects of the crew were stolen from the plane. He recalls some of his experiences during his 18 combat missions over Japan, including an incident when a 500 pound bomb failed to drop and ended up rolling down the runway in Guam after they landed. He remembers returning from a mission and hearing over the radio the request from another B-29 crew to make a low pass over the airfield to celebrate the Japanese surrender. He describes being called back to active duty during the Korean War and describes his work on a later project testing the effects of nuclear blasts on aircraft in flight.
Catalog number: VIS 201.0726
In this interview, William Rutledge Lounsbery recalls his experiences serving in the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) in the Pacific during World War II and briefly describes some of his later work in nuclear testing. He explains how he entered the USAAF in 1943 and was assigned as navigator on a B-29 bomber. He describes various training assignments; being assigned to a crew; and taking the aircraft to Guam, including a stopover in California during which many personal effects of the crew were stolen from the plane. He recalls some of his experiences during his 18 combat missions over Japan, including an incident when a 500 pound bomb failed to drop and ended up rolling down the runway in Guam after they landed. He remembers returning from a mission and hearing over the radio the request from another B-29 crew to make a low pass over the airfield to celebrate the Japanese surrender. He describes being called back to active duty during the Korean War and describes his work on a later project testing the effects of nuclear blasts on aircraft in flight.
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