VICTORY, Luther AIR FORCE Singh, Bobby April 10, 2001 October 22, 2003 Terry Moore World War II; B-17 Tailgunner; Staff Sergeant/ Armored 1st Class Aerial Gunner; German POW-Stalag 17 in Austria
How old were you when went into the war effort? Eighteen. Were you drafted, or did you volunteer? Volunteered. December 7th was when Japan attacked Hawaii, and I tried to enlist on December 8th, the next day. I was told I wasn't old enough, so I had to wait until May of '42. I had to get my birth certificate changed, which you can do it's no big problem. All you do is get three people to sign a statement that you were born on a certain day, and there you go-they'd change your birth certificate. I went in on May 26, 1942. Was there more volunteering going on, or were more people drafted? No, no. You couldn't hardly get near a recruitment place because it was so overloaded. Everybody wanted to go in. What was the morale of people that were going off to war? Great. What were some of your experiences during your training? I was in the Air Force, and you went through basic training, which was two armory schools-machine guns and all that good stuff, and I went to an aerial gunnery school. How long did the training last?
Interview with Luther Victory, an aerial gunner and POW for the US Air Force during WWII. He describes life in the military and being captured by the Germans.
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