Leslie S. Dunn, Jr. oral history interview
Oral History
Identifier:
05.19.1
Alternate Identifier:MS 285
1940s
Interview date:April 18 2005
Interviewer:Kathy Bradford
Description
Les Dunn was in the Army Air Force during WWII and had taken extensive training to be a pilot when the War Department sent word that the military had enough pilots and training would cease. After learning that 6 of his high school friends had been killed, he wanted desperately to get into the fighting and avenge their deaths. He took the training necessary to be a ball turret gunner and war ready to go into combat when the war ended. It was a bitter disappointment to him not to have been in the fighting.
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