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  • Text: 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 skies, their numbers were not even close to the numbers that you had. Do you attribute
Ken Jernstedt interview (video and transcript, 3 of 6), 1991

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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
Ed Rector interview (video and transcript, 10 of 11), 1991

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  • Text: 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 removed from his Command.
Joe Rosbert interview (video and transcript, 5 of 7), 1991

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  • Text: 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
Erik Shilling interview (video and transcript, 3 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, 3 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, 5 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, 6 of 8), 1991

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  • Text: heard all of this noise up front and it was a noise too. But when you got up a little closer we 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
J. J. Harrington interview (video and transcript, 3 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, 7 of 8), 1991

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  • Text: . 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 sure that if we'd had Burst of Buffaloes
Tex Hill interview (video and transcript, 4 of 7), 1991

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  • Text: 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. Exceptionally dirty. Of course when you'd get out to the field we had Chinese
Chuck Baisden interview (video and transcript, 6 of 11), 1991

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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
Charlie Bond interview (video and transcript, 9 of 12), 1991