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  • Text: for the purpose of going to China and getting discharged from the service and going to China, and that was about all he said, other than there would be working on P-40's and he didn't know very much more, but they would have a meeting in the theater the next day
J. J. Harrington interview (video and transcript, 2 of 14), 1991

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  • Text: not have come about - the two commanders. By the same token, the overall commander in the theater over there was Lieutenant General Joe Stilwell. He was placed as overall commander of the theater over there which encompassed the air corps and nearly
J. J. Harrington interview (video and transcript, 12 of 14), 1991

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  • Text: on in China. J. J. HARRINGTON: While I was still at Kunming, we were still getting our equipment in shape, and we still had a ways to go with General Bissell. They had reorganized the entire theater, and we came under the 10th Air Force which was organized
J. J. Harrington interview (video and transcript, 11 of 14), 1991

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  • Description: to the US in 1942 and was drafted into the US Army, but 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
Robert T. Smith interview (video and transcript, 8 of 8), 1991

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  • Description: to the US in 1942 and was drafted into the US Army, but 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
Robert T. Smith interview (video and transcript, 1 of 8), 1991

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  • Text: of the trucks and were dispersed into the jungle so we weren't killing people, we were just shooting up trucks. JUDGE OLDER: Near the end of the AVG, this is now Kunming, we were told to be in the theater at one of the hostels, I think it was hostel number one
Charles Older interview (video and transcript, 7 of 7), 1991

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  • Description: to the US in 1942 and was drafted into the US Army, but 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
Robert T. Smith interview (video and transcript, 2 of 8), 1991

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Robert T. Smith interview (video and transcript, 4 of 8), 1991

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  • Text: ] FRANK BORING: What do you think the AVG accomplished in its brief history? J. J. HARRINGTON: I think the AVG accomplished an awful lot during the years that they were in existence in the China theater. One thing that it brought out loud and clear
J. J. Harrington interview (video and transcript, 14 of 14), 1991

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  • Text: there, and that's the modern way of young mothers taking care of their children there. That [?] what the [?] had done for years. FB: What sorts of things amused you about China? MA: I don't know that I got amused too much. Now I enjoyed the Chinese Theater
Marian "Steve" Adair interview (video and transcript, 2 of 3), 1991

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  • Text: would win in the end. Those are the thoughts that went through my mind and knew that what we would have to do that we were in a prime position to be effective at the outset. We were in the theater, we were facing the Japs right now. Here
Ed Rector interview (video and transcript, 6 of 11), 1991

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  • Text: . With the way the situation was in China, lack of communications, they always were the last ones to receive consideration. The European Theater being the prize, as far as the politicians in Washington were concerned. So he had a tough circumstance to overcome
Joe Rosbert interview (video and transcript, 6 of 7), 1991