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• Text: ...ircumstances change fast sometimes and then do the best you can. FRANK BORING: There is one big difference though. In other theaters, using the traditional method of dog fighting that the military was basically explaining, the British, even the ones that you were fighting with in the same ...

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• Text: ...In addition to that, by this time remember it's June and more Army Air Corps troops are appearing in the theater. Recall that I told you that the 51st Fighter Group was virtually in China by this time intact. Also the 11th Bomb Squadron was activated and in that 11th Bomb Squadron you&...

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• Text: ...We didn't know what he was going to do at the time, had no idea what his future was in the theater. But then later on we all formed stronger opinions about him and especially his relations with General Chennault and with Chiang Kai-shek. As you know, later on he was eventually remove...

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• Text: ...h them, because they could turn inside of us and get us. This was the mistake that the military through all of the different theaters down off of Australia and New Guinea were under the impression that that's the only way to fight, was to dogfight and a dogfight of course was a turning...

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• Description: ...t was quickly re-commissioned as a US Air Corps Second Lieutenant. Over the course of the war, Smith returned to the Pacific Theater and flew 55 combat missions over Burma. He was awarded the Air Medal, Distinguisghed Flying Cross, and Silver Star. In this tape, Smith discusses his first im...

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• Text: ... found out that it was some of our friends that had gone over on the Jaegersfontein ahead of us. And they had gone down to a theater where they normally had little bands and talked to some people coming over to the train station with the bands and then our friends that they had followed, ...

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• Text: ...So it too didn't have the speed and couldn't get away. So it's very important in any theater to have equipment that's tailored for that environment. FRANK BORING: Chennault was a master of that. TEX HILL: He was an absolute master. I mean anything you did, I'm su...

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• Text: ...aurant there called the Nanping Restaurant where we could get fried rice and pigs. We used to eat there and they had a movie theater we used to go to. But that's about all Kunming had to offer unless you wanted to go to an opium den and we stayed out of those things - at least I did. E...

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• Text: ... to wait for this British, BOAC aircraft, so we decided to have some fun and go on out into the countryside and we went to a theater where they had a show and a lot of – it was a live show, a lot of girls, prettiest girls, American girls, and several of us ended up supposedly having dates...