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JG: We took a physical at Westover Air Force Base, which was located in Chicopee and very close to Westfield and got through that nicely. And so we entered the cadet program. And we went -- went away January 25, 1943. The month after I graduated. And we got on a troop train to Greensboro, North Carolina for basic training. Do you want me to keep going on with this? RG: Yes. Go ahead. JG: And so we were there -- I think it was only three or four weeks. We hadn't even gone to the range when they put us back on a troop train and shipped us north. And they kept letting off the -- a car here and a car in Washington and a couple cars in New York. And they kept going north, and they finally got to Springfield, which is ten miles from home. And they let us off, and we ended up in Springfield College. And we were almost embarrassed to be back so close to home because, of course, everybody thought we were going to be gone for a couple of years. RG: You had to go 1,000 miles to come back home.
JG: Exactly. So there we were. And so when we came home we were kind of embarrassed, but they were all glad to see us. So we spent -- oh, I think it was two or three months there. It was an officers' training. It was the first step in the cadet program to become an officer. And this
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with John Glaze. Glaze was born on 2 January 1925. He joined the Army Air Forces Cadet Program in January 1943. He was commissioned as a B-17 Aerial Navigator and joined the 483rd Bomb Group, 860th Bomb Squadron in Debach, England. Glaze flew 28 bombing missions over Germany and Normandy. He returned to the US and received his discharge in late 1945.
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