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since I've known the gals in Washington [[strikethrough]],[[/strikethrough]]. That she just actually washed out because they needed to eliminate people
D  FASCINATING?
F  That's a Dastardly thing...
D  YES...
to think about.
we were all just so involved in with getting ourselves through that I had not heard the story down there and not till I started meeting with girls up here, (another demobilization) did I hear about it
D  ON AN AVERAGE DAY WOULD GET UP DO CALISTHENICS?
No, we got up, made our beds, [[strikethrough]] either [[/strikethrough]] and either one flight would go to the flight line, while the other flight would go to breakfast [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] then we would switch off. [[strikethrough]] and then [[/strikethrough]] Then we had three things; flight lines, ground school and PT. Those were our three courses of instructions, [[strikethrough]] so that [[/strikethrough]] we would just switch, [[strikethrough]] around morning either to [[/strikethrough]] the around so that in the morning you'd either do the flight line or the ground school and [[strikethrough]] in [//strikethrough]] afternoon [[strikethrough]] same way around [[/strikethrough]] the opposite depending on which flight you were with that day, Everybody took PT at 4:30. [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] The ground school was fun and interesting, there was no doubt about that.
D  WHAT DID YOU WEAR FOR UNIFORMS
well, we did not have any thing but old cast offs - the smallest sizes that they could get. [[strikethrough]] When [[/strikethrough]] On Sundays or Saturday afternoon, [[strikethrough]] lots of [[/strikethrough]] many times, [[strikethrough]] some [[/strikethrough]] generals would fly, [[strikethrough]] in you know [[/strikethrough]] to look [[strikethrough]] it [[/strikethrough]] us over so we had what they called general's pants very much the shade of your skirt (tan) and we had to wear white shirts no ties or anything but white shirts either long or short sleeved. [[strikethrough]] whatever [[/strikethrough]]
D  DID YOU EVER MEET JACKIE COCHRAN
No, except at my graduation she was there, [[strikethrough]] as well [[/strikethrough]] and, this was one of the graduations that General Arnold attended
D  WHAT WAS THE ATTITUDE TOWARDS THE PEOPLE WHO WERE THE LEADERSHIP, FOR EXAMPLE, JACKIE COCHRAN AND WHAT WERE THE STORIES THAT YOU HEARD

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