8 Bells Lecture | Brian Duddy: Invasion Stripes: The Wartime Diary of Capt. Robert Uhrig, USAAF...
Channel: U.S. Naval War College
Date: 2013-12-13

Brian Duddy, "Invasion Stripes: The Wartime Diary of Captain Robert Uhrig, USAAF and the Dawn of American Military Airlift" Eight Bells Book Lecture, Naval War College Museum, Nov. 21, 2013.

This is the biography of US Army Air Forces Captain Robert Uhrig during WWII. Told in his own words from extensive diary entries and letters to his wife, the story starts in the late 1930s at Patterson Field, Ohio, and follows Bob through the war as an aircraft mechanic and then Engineering Officer for the 36th Troop Carrier Squadron and their Douglas C-47s.

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