Thomas, Donald, “Thomas, Donald (Interview outline and video), 2009,” Digital Collections, accessed February 16, 2025, https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/29454.
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Thomas, Donald (Interview outline and video), 2009
Donald Thomas joined the Army after he graduated from high school, intending to fly airplanes in World War II. Initially, the Army sent him to Engineering school, but after a two week break, he switched into the Air Cadet school. The program ended in 1944, and he was assigned to a turret gun in a B-17 and shipped overseas to Scotland to fly bombing missions into Germany.