Columbia Center for Oral History Portal > Reminiscences of Orvil A. Anderson : oral history, 1959.Biographical NoteAir Force officer.
Scope and ContentsRecollections of General Arnold from 1938; War Department policy on planes; fighters vs. bombers; Lend-Lease; expansion of forces, 1941-1942; problems of allocation and division of appropriations; organization of United States Air Force; Joint Chiefs and Joint Planning Staff; Pearl Harbor attack; Ploesti raid, 1942. Impressions of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, General George C. Marshall, Admiral Ernest J. King, and others.
Subjects- Aeronautics, Military.
- Air pilots--Interviews.
- Anderson, Orvil A., 1895-1965.
- Arnold, Henry Harley, 1886-1950.
- Aviation.
- Interviews.
- Lend-lease operations (1941-1945)
- Oral histories.
- Shaughnessy, Donald F., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
- United States. Air Force.
- United States. Army Air Forces.
- United States. War Department--Appropriations and expenditures.
- Veterans--Interviews.
- World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, American.
- World War, 1939-1945.
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