- Collection:
- Veterans History Project: Oral History Interviews
- Title:
- Oral history interview of Harold Henderson Barton
- Creator:
- Lowance, David
Barton, Harold Henderson, 1921-2001 - Publisher:
- Kenan Research Center, Atlanta History Center, 130 West Paces Ferry Rd., Atlanta, GA 30305
- Date of Original:
- 2005-02-14
- Subject:
- Kachin (Asian people)--Burma--Social life and customs
Atomic bomb
Douglas DC-3 (Transport plane)
P-40 (Fighter plane)
Stearman airplanes
B-24 (Bomber)
North American airplanes (Military aircraft)
Fairchild aircraft
World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, American
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Burma
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--China
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--India
United States. Army. Air Corps - People:
- Barton, Carroll Hershel, 1921-1986
- Location:
- Africa, 7.1881, 21.09375
Algeria, Oran, 35.69906, -0.63588
Brahmaputra River, 24.570264, 90.5152668
China, Kunming Shi, 25.0437977, 102.714338
Ethiopia, 9.0, 39.5
India, Agra, 27.1752554, 78.0098161
India, Chabua, 27.5595691, 95.1467934415661
India, Jorhat, 26.7577925, 94.2079645
Marshall Islands, Enewetak Atoll, 11.5141037, 162.064393241945
Nigeria, Maiduguri, 11.8395375, 13.1536214
Pakistan, Karachi, 24.8667795, 67.0311286
People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, Algiers, 36.73225, 3.08746
Red Sea
Saint Helena, Ascension, Ascension Island, -7.95, -14.36667
Senegal, Dakar, 14.766667, -17.283333
Sudan, Khartoum, 15.593325, 32.53565
United States, Alabama, Mobile County, Mobile, 30.69436, -88.04305
United States, California, Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, Mines Field, 33.94216755, -118.421392984142
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
United States, Kansas, Sedgwick County, Wichita, 37.69224, -97.33754
United States, Oklahoma, Muskogee County, Muskogee, 35.74788, -95.36969
United States, Texas, Dallam County, Dalhart Army Airfield - Medium:
- video recordings (physical artifacts)
Mini-DV - Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- In this interview, Harold Barton describes his experiences as an Army Air Corps pilot in the China Burma India (CBI) theater during World War II. Before the war, he was in Muscogee, Oklahoma, in a civilian flying school. In the CBI Theater, part of his duty was to ferry fifty-gallon drums of fuel and 500-pound bombs in a C-47 Skytrain. He was forced to bail out behind Japanese lines in Burma, and was assisted by the Burmese people to evade capture. He describes witnessing the release of an atomic bomb in Enewetak after the war.
Harold Barton was an Army Air Corps pilot in the China-Burma-India theatre during World War II. - Metadata URL:
- http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/ref/collection/VHPohr/id/392
- 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:
- 54:57
- Original Collection:
- Veterans History Project collection, MSS 1010, Kenan Research Center, Atlanta History Center
Veterans History Project oral history recordings - Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
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