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Walker, Everett

 Person

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Everett Walker papers

 Collection — Single Folder Collections - 2004 Box 6 (04.0184-04.0216), Folder: 04.0206
Identifier: 04.0206
Scope and Contents

This collection contains the oral history interview of Lieutenant Colonel Everett Walker conducted by the Institute on World War II and the Human Experience. Walker was forced to bail out very near the target on his eighteenth mission as a bombardier and gunner on a B-24. He discusses his rescue from the water, his interrogation experience and the conditions of his internment. He also talks about the many different escape attempts made by the American POWs at Stalag Luft III.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1943-1973; Other: Majority of material found in 1944; Other: Date acquired: 07/01/2004