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Oral history interview with Donald Fleming
Interview with Donald Fleming, grain elevator operator and Army Air Forces veteran (781st Bomb Squadron, 465th Bomb Group, 15th Air Force), concerning his experiences as a B-24 navigator in the European Theater during World War II. His education through college and graduation from Kansas State University, 1942; decision to enlist as an Aviation Cadet in the Army Air Forces, 1943; navigator training, San Marcos, Texas, 1943; bomber transition training, McCook, Nebraska, 1943; assignment to Pantanella Air Base, Italy, 1944; his description of various missions to Austria and Romania, 1944; fighter escorts by the Tuskegee Airmen (332nd Fighter Group, 15th Air Force); raids against oil refineries and marshaling yards; enemy flak and fighter opposition; his return to the States after fifty-one missions, 1944; his crew's pet dog; correspondence with his wife; postwar business career.
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