Oral History Interview with Louis Roffman, December 8, 1980 Page: 19
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more or less give us an idea of how the Navy, the flying
end of the Navy, did their operation. We sailed out of
Pearl Harbor, out to sea, and they had their landings and
their takeoffs.
An incident happened that almost made me cry. The
Army Air Corps got the lowest end of the budget ,for
airplanes...for their expenses to run the Army Air Corps.
When we changed an engine at Hickam Field...we would change
anything--a starter, a generator. We would take the
cotter key out. A cotter key is a...after you tighten up
any,..you put this cotter key in to hold it so it wouldn't
turn. You would "safety it," was what it was called. You
would take the cotter key out, and you would straighten it
out and put it in our tool box, because we used that cotter
key again. Today you just take it out and throw it away.
Anyway, they had a Brewster fighter that landed on
the carrier deck. I dpn't know which way he was coming,
but one of his brakes locked. He hit the superstructure and
tore the wing off. The pilot wasn't hurt; he got out. The
horn sounded and the whistle blew, and some men came up
from an elevator from the lower deck on to the flight deck.They had these helmets on, and they had this long sheet,
and they were checking the various things on this airplane.
They took the sheet up to the flag officer on the bridge.
He looked it over, and he gave a "thumbs out" signal, They
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Marcello, Ronald E. & Roffman, Louis. Oral History Interview with Louis Roffman, December 8, 1980, book, December 8, 1980; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2100315/m1/21/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Oral History Program.