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Old February 10th 04, 04:11 AM
Kevin Brooks
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Subject: Why would an RAF pilot become a USAAC co-pilot?
From: "Kevin Brooks"
Date: 2/9/04 5:26 PM Pacific Standard Time
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Subject: Why would an RAF pilot become a USAAC co-pilot?
From: "Ed Majden"

Date: 2/9/04 10:58 AM Pacifi

Most wanted to
be pilots but the greater majority ended up as Navs, Air Gunners,

Wireless
Operators and Bomb aimers eventually assigned to No. 6 Bomber Group
(R.C.A.F.).
Ed



Makes no difference what you wanted to be. You were assigned where you

were
needed.


Yep, for the most part (though I do know one WWII vet who, upon finding

out
his entire aviation cadet class was being cancelled and the newly

enlisted
members being reassigned to other duties, flatly refused to train as a

radio
operator--and got his assignment to gunnery school that he was willing to
take). Kind of strange to hear you admit that, though--wasn't that long

ago
you were claiming that all of those who wanted to engage in direct combat
operations could do so, regardless of what the "needs of the service"

were.

Brooks



Arthur Kramer



Nobody got out of combat duty. Maybe you were on a track for fighters but
suddenky you were transferred to mullti engine transitional because the

100th
bomb group was taking heavy losses and B-17 pilots were needed. Or in my
classification group at San Antonio aviation cadet center all 400 in my

class
were all classified as Bombardiers because of the heavy death toll among
bombardiers over europe. But no one that I ever heard of was re-assigned

to
non combat duty once they had volunteered for AAC. If you want to fight,

the
AAC would be glad to accomodate you. If you don't want to fight, you don't
volunteer for the AAC.


But you have repeatedly told us how all of those maintenance guys, mess
personnel, armorers, etc., don't meet your criteria for having served in
combat. They were all also in the USAAF (I believe the AAC designation was
dropped while you were still in training, if not beforehand).

Brooks


Arthur Kramer