Oral History: Dorothy Bauer 12-Feb-10, 20100212.

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Genre:

Internet videos.

Nonfiction films.

Physical Description:

online resource (video file 1:08:44) : Sound, Colour

Place of Publication:

12-Feb-10,

Summary:

WAVES; Flight Orderly; Northeast; Midwest; West Coast US; she had an interesting story about trying to volunteer for the WAVES when she was nineteen; after arguing with her father she was allowed to volunteer for the WAVES; after training she became a Flight Orderly and performed duties similar to a stewardess; she told many stories about having to make sure that her passengers kept in line such as the strict no smoking policy during the beginning of the flight; she had Betty Grable's husband Harry James on one of her flights; towards the end of the war she went on several hospital flights in which her plane was transporting wounded men from the fighting on Iwo Jima and Okinawa.

Notes:

Description based on online resource (viewed on 12 June, 2019).

Archive Reference: OH.0111.