Interview by Daniel Jackson, April 26, 2007. John R. Alison: Oh, hi, how are you? Daniel Jackson: I’m fine, sir. How are you doing today? John R. Alison: Hold on just one second. Daniel Jackson: No problem. John R. Alison: I’m sorry. Daniel Jackson: Oh, that’s fine, sir. John R. Alison: Is it Cadet Jackson?…
Seventy-eight years ago today, on February 28, 1943, the 76th Fighter Squadron reported Capt Jesse R. Carney missing when he failed to return from an offensive reconnaissance mission over southwest China. Hurtling 500 feet above the ground near Datang, Yunnan Province, when surface-to-air fire crippled His P-40K, Carney realized he would be unable to reach…
McCutchan, Clay T. Maj Gen (ret). Interview by Daniel Jackson. 9 April 2020. Could you explain your dad’s background prior to shipping overseas in World War II? He was a sergeant pilot and flew in the gunnery school at Eglin. He was a tow-target pilot. He flew the T-6 and towed targets. In World War…
Email to Daniel Jackson. 8 September 2018. Dear Capt. Dan Jackson:: Following is a resume of my military and civilian career.. I entered the Army Air Corp Aviation Cadet Pilot Training Program in the fall of 1941 and graduated in May of 1942 in the class of 42-E. Upon graduation, I was assigned to Colorado…
Findley, William S. I Took the Long Way Home. Unpublished, 1962. I’d set a new world’s record–100 yards in nine flat across a rain-slick rice paddy. I stopped fleeing and turned to look apprehensively at the smoking United State Air Corps P-38 plane I’d belly-landed. Any moment now, the few drops of gasoline remaining would…
Interview by Daniel Jackson and Richard Hakanson. Translated by Roongpeth Sriboonruang and Wiyada Kantarod. December 6, 2018. We came to ask about the crash site at Huai Toke Khon Yang. Who saw debris? Not me. There is another person. We can ask him. Who owns the land where the plane crashed? The government. It’s a…
Interview by Daniel Jackson and Richard Hakanson. Translated by Wiyada Kantarod. December 8, 2018. What can you remember the day the plane crashed? It was daytime like this, the explosion was so loud that it made the buffalos frightened and they broke the ropes in their noses. Lots of big pieces of the plane were…
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Interview by Daniel Jackson, October 15, 2016 I was surprised to hear that both your brothers also became pilots during the war? Yes. They were bomber pilots. One was a B-17 pilot and one was a B-24 pilot. What was it about your family that made you all so fascinated with flying? Well, I don’t…
Interview by Daniel Jackson, January 13, 2009 When did you arrive in the China-Burma-India Theater? Well, we arrived in Karachi in January of ’44. So you were a replacement pilot, not with the original unit? Yeah. In Karachi they had a field called Landhi Field and they still had P-40s at the time and the…