W. H. Webster Memories - Interview September 9, 2002
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Interview Sept 9, 2002Q: Do you remember your service number?AO 431580 was my officer number. My enlisted number was 16004499.Q: How did you have both W. H. Webster Memories - Interview September 9, 2002h an enlisted and officer number?I was enlisted before I was commissioned. As an aviation cadet 1 was enlisted. If you washed out, you still had an enlisted commitment. You had, I think, a three year commitment to serve to payback whatever training expenses had been expended on you but if you accept W. H. Webster Memories - Interview September 9, 2002ed by tlie RCAF or the RAF you were released from that US commitment. That was always the fall back position if you got washed out. It wasn’t the endW. H. Webster Memories - Interview September 9, 2002
of the world. They needed pilots badly no matter how poor a pilot you might have been by Army Air Corps standards.Q: What were the AAC standards?They Interview Sept 9, 2002Q: Do you remember your service number?AO 431580 was my officer number. My enlisted number was 16004499.Q: How did you have both W. H. Webster Memories - Interview September 9, 2002l and some of it was discipline and some of it, most of it, was for flying deficiencies. They told you when an instructor was given six students, he’d say, “Look around you because two of the six of you is going to wash out.” So they actually almost had a quota on how many they washed out.Q: How do W. H. Webster Memories - Interview September 9, 2002you think affected the training approach, the training philosophy?It added a lot of pressure to it, obviously. Part of the standard procedure by the iW. H. Webster Memories - Interview September 9, 2002
nstructor was, I don’t want to say harass you, but put you under a lot of pressure. Give you a lot of instructions and clam??? you if you didn’t do thInterview Sept 9, 2002Q: Do you remember your service number?AO 431580 was my officer number. My enlisted number was 16004499.Q: How did you have both W. H. Webster Memories - Interview September 9, 2002 was that the instructor at the beginning, you went to ground school a half a day and you flew a half day. Let’s say 1 was in the group that was going to fly in the afternoon and it was Friday. One student would get in the BT-19 which was the Fairchild, open cockpit, student in the back, instructor W. H. Webster Memories - Interview September 9, 2002in the front. One would get in the plane, take off from the home the base and the other students along with the excess would get in the bus and driveW. H. Webster Memories - Interview September 9, 2002
20 miles out to the auxiliary' field. You’re just sitting there wailing for the instructor to finish his first student instruction. He’d come in and lInterview Sept 9, 2002Q: Do you remember your service number?AO 431580 was my officer number. My enlisted number was 16004499.Q: How did you have both W. H. Webster Memories - Interview September 9, 2002ur later and pick up the third guy. They’d fly around and the third guy would go back to home base with the instructor and the other two guys would get on the bus with all the others and rideback. There were usually thirty- or thirty five in the bus going both ways. On this particular Friday afterno W. H. Webster Memories - Interview September 9, 2002on I was the third guy to fly. He was kinda’ behind schedule. The preceding student got out and I jumped in the back seat and the guy was already giviW. H. Webster Memories - Interview September 9, 2002
ng instructions and this was before you had radios. You had a gosport which was just a speaking tube with a hose that ran from the front seat to the sInterview Sept 9, 2002Q: Do you remember your service number?AO 431580 was my officer number. My enlisted number was 16004499.Q: How did you have both W. H. Webster Memories - Interview September 9, 2002 On this particular occasion, he started off teed off at the other student so it carried over to me. I did what I thought he told me to do, make climbing turns and get up to a certain altitude. Give me a maneuver, s turns over a road. 180 degree turns and we didn't have a full complement of instrume W. H. Webster Memories - Interview September 9, 2002nts yet, airspeed and altimeter. If I was doing a 180 degree turn and I came out of the turn 100 feet lower than the 5000 feet he’d assigned me to. DiW. H. Webster Memories - Interview September 9, 2002
d this three or four limes and finally he said, “Webster if what you had to fuck with was as long as your memory', you’d be shit out of luck.” Then heInterview Sept 9, 2002Q: Do you remember your service number?AO 431580 was my officer number. My enlisted number was 16004499.Q: How did you have both W. H. Webster Memories - Interview September 9, 2002on the stick to regain lost altitude. I did this three or four times. Finally he says, “Webster, I said 5000 feet.” and he hit the stick as hard as he could. Course that was another thing they harassed you at, catch your pressure on the stick, they would continue to grab it and try to pull it away f W. H. Webster Memories - Interview September 9, 2002rom you his stick in front. He caught me totally unprepared and for once I was holding the stick with minimum pressure and he just tore it right out oW. H. Webster Memories - Interview September 9, 2002
f my hand and in the zeal to get in and get ready and get going. I’d hooked the parachute straps to my chest and legs, I hadn’t hooked the seat belt oInterview Sept 9, 2002Q: Do you remember your service number?AO 431580 was my officer number. My enlisted number was 16004499.Q: How did you have both W. H. Webster Memories - Interview September 9, 2002 my hips and legs were still in the cockpit with the parachute attached. I grabbed the wind screen with my hands and threw my guidance??? on my sheet with my parachute on and back into the seat and I missed the seat because I went in ahead of the seat. Here I am with the control stick in my crotch a W. H. Webster Memories - Interview September 9, 2002nd wedged in between the seat and the control Slick was me and my parachute and a PT-19, we’re going down at about an 80 degree angle by this time. 1’W. H. Webster Memories - Interview September 9, 2002
11 never forget, he opened the gosport up and said, “You got it in, you get it out.” Hell, I couldn’t get it out because I was wedged in between the sInterview Sept 9, 2002Q: Do you remember your service number?AO 431580 was my officer number. My enlisted number was 16004499.Q: How did you have both W. H. Webster Memories - Interview September 9, 2002 and back in the seat and pulled it out at about 1000 feet. He said, “Take me back to the base", very Unintelligible. Fortunately at that lime I did know where I was, location. So. I went back to land at Hatbox Field in Muskogee and taxied in and shut it down and he says, “Webster, have you got a da W. H. Webster Memories - Interview September 9, 2002te tonight?” I said, “Yes sir.” He said, and that was with Betty of course, “You tell your baby doll that a PT-19 is redlined at 170 and you managed tW. H. Webster Memories - Interview September 9, 2002
o do 190 straight down.” I noticed when I pulled out there was a little play in the wings but that was part of the treatment that they gave you was juInterview Sept 9, 2002Q: Do you remember your service number?AO 431580 was my officer number. My enlisted number was 16004499.Q: How did you have both W. H. Webster Memories - Interview September 9, 2002along?Yeah. In flying the BT-13 not quite as bad because they’d weeded out pan of that. We had a few washouts in Basic. A couple of guys also got killed. But the pressure wasn’t quite so great. (Send you an episode that happened at Basic called “Stick to the basics.”)Q: Most of (he washouts were in W. H. Webster Memories - Interview September 9, 2002Primary then ?Yeah. By the time you got to Advanced, of course you really weren’t a finished pilot I)}' any means, but you’d have probably 120-130 houW. H. Webster Memories - Interview September 9, 2002
rs. At that point, starling in September of ’41, there were a number of announcements that showed up on the bulletin board. They said. “If you’re inteInterview Sept 9, 2002Q: Do you remember your service number?AO 431580 was my officer number. My enlisted number was 16004499.Q: How did you have both W. H. Webster Memories - Interview September 9, 2002 the Flying Tigers, call this number. Another one, there was an oiler to fly for the Dutch in die East Indies.” while the officials didn’t recommend it, they’d honor you request if you applied. 1 know 1 volunteered for the RAF job. 1 think about fifty of us did. They only took ten.Q: Were they the t W. H. Webster Memories - Interview September 9, 2002en best pilots'?They were better pilots but they were also small guys. Because it was flying P-4ƠS. The Americans would ship by boat the P40s, they diW. H. Webster Memories - Interview September 9, 2002
dn’t have enough range at that time they didn’t have any belly tanks. They didn't have the range to go across the South Atlantic from Belem to Accra. Interview Sept 9, 2002Q: Do you remember your service number?AO 431580 was my officer number. My enlisted number was 16004499.Q: How did you have both W. H. Webster Memories - Interview September 9, 2002ng stops. Then you’d deliver them at Khartoum which at that time was of course a British territory.You were under contract in a funny way. You became John Doe, Citizen-at-large, and you were under contract to Pan Am. Pan Am supplied all the support to the route and the pay was about three times what W. H. Webster Memories - Interview September 9, 2002 second lieutenants were getting. I think it was about S600 a month. 1 think we were getting $212 plus flying pay. It was a six month contract and, ifW. H. Webster Memories - Interview September 9, 2002
you liked it and survived, of course you were flying unarmed planes, if you were caught, you were a gone gosling. You got a $3000 bonus and you couldInterview Sept 9, 2002Q: Do you remember your service number?AO 431580 was my officer number. My enlisted number was 16004499.Q: How did you have both W. H. Webster Memories - Interview September 9, 2002esigned their citizenship temporarily and were sent down to Panama to fly P-40s where the Army had P-40s on patrol in the Canal Zone. They wound up silling out the war in the Canal Zone. I’m glad I didn’t gel accepted for that.Q: How much was (he Hying pay?Fifty bucks.Q: Other training incidents?It W. H. Webster Memories - Interview September 9, 2002was the day after lhanksgiving. 1 was a Cadet Captain and the OD came and tolc me to report to the Commandant of Cadets. 1 thought, “OhmyGod, what havW. H. Webster Memories - Interview September 9, 2002
e I done now?” I got in there and got sat down and he said to me, “Mr. Webster.” I thought oh, he’s being nice. “I'm sorry that your father had died.Gọi ngay
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