Oral History Interviews with John Plath Green, 1974 Page: 70
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Green
70has no protection. When you see P-38's, when you see
others, you know that we're still fighting. But
once you see that little old C-47 coming in, it was
a lift to us. We knew that everything was going
all right. We were used to that kind of plane. It
had been stripped down because they didn't want paint
on it. They didn't want too much paint and too much
baggage, luxuries, because that took the place of
supplies that could be sent. So when we got in this
beautiful--was it a C-54 or whatever it was--thing,
it was like walking into a king's palace.
But it was on midnight of August . . . as I
recall, the order was that we were to begin to take
off from the Okinawa airfield at midnight, August 30,
1945. The airplanes took off . . . the order was that
every two seconds a plane would take off. My plane
took off at 0202. That would be 2:02 a.m. So you
could count the number of planes that had gone off
down to me. But I was there at midnight waiting for
our plane.
But again, going back a minute, so you got to Okinawa,
and you were there for about two weeks. It was here
that you made some of your initial preparations forMarcello:
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Marcello, Ronald E. & Green, John Plath. Oral History Interviews with John Plath Green, 1974, book, {1976-02-06,1976-03-01}; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1944578/m1/71/?q=%22~1~1%22~1&rotate=90: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Oral History Program.