Dewitt, Al, “Dewitt, Al (Interview outline and video), 2008,” Digital Collections, accessed December 5, 2025, https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/28819.
Al Dewitt was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan and joined the Army Air Corps in 1942. Al was assigned to be a glider pilot and received his glider wings. He then trained as a fighter pilot but remained based in the US. He became a farmer after the war, but was called back into duty for 21 months during the Korean War. He was first a test pilot for the AT-6 and then was put on a B-36 crew. They did training runs and went over Russia at high altitudes, and Al survived a particularly dangerous crash landing.