- Collection:
- Veterans History Project: Oral History Interviews
- Title:
- Oral history interview of James Park Cheves
- Creator:
- Goldfarb, Stephen
Cheves, James Park, Jr., 1923-2014 - Date of Original:
- 2005-05-05
- Subject:
- Stearman airplanes
Nautical astronomy
Vultee airplanes
B-24 (Bomber)
B-29 (Bomber)
Radar
Link trainers
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American
Cheves, Ida Lee Solms
Cheves, James Park, Sr., 1898-1995
Cheves, Elizabeth Chumbley, 1899-1952
Boyington, Gregory, 1912-1988
Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles August), 1859-1924
Meador, Tom
United States. Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944
University of Georgia
United States. Army Air Forces. Air Force, 6th
United States. Army Air Forces. Bomb Group, 313th
United States. Navy. Seabees
United Service Organizations (U.S.)
Celestial navigation - Location:
- Northern Mariana Islands, Tinian, 15.0116123, 145.629297331134
Philippines, Clark Field
United States, Alabama, Montgomery County, Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base, 32.38266, -86.35502
United States, California, San Bernardino County, George Air Force Base (historical), 34.59472, -117.38417
United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
United States, Georgia, Atlanta Metropolitan Area, 33.8498, 84.4383
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Fort McPherson, 33.70733, -84.43354
United States, Georgia, Lumpkin County, Dahlonega, 34.53259, -83.98491 - Medium:
- video recordings (physical artifacts)
mini-dv - Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/quicktime
- Description:
- In this interview, Buck Cheves describes his Army Air Force career in the Pacific at the end of World War II. His pilot training took him to the University of Vermont; Americus, Georgia; and Greenville and Columbus, Mississippi. He picked up his crew at Westover Field, Massachusetts, traveled to Chatham Field, Georgia, and finally to Ephrata, Washington. From there, the command pilots were taken to the Marianas Islands. At this time, the war with Japan was near its end, and his missions were largely supply and humanitarian, particularly to American prisoners of war.
Buck Cheves was a U.S. Army Air Forces pilot in the Pacific during World War II. - Metadata URL:
- http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/ref/collection/VHPohr/id/368
- Additional Rights Information:
- This material is protected by copyright law. (Title 17, U.S. Code) Permission for use must be cleared through the Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center. Licensing agreement may be required.
- Extent:
- 45:07
- Original Collection:
- Veterans History Project oral history recordings
Veterans History Project collection, MSS 1010, Kenan Research Center, Atlanta History Center - Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
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