Interview with Robert William Morgan, May 18, 2002

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Segment Synopsis: Morgan talks about growing up in Oldham County and working before enlisting into the Army Air Corps.

Keywords: Charlestown Power Plant; Fort Knox; Goodyear Bagging Plant; Henry County High School; Smithfield, Kentucky; U.S. Army Air Corps; enlisted

Subjects: Fort Knox (Ky.)Recruiting and enlistment.; Smithfield (Ky.); U.S. Army Air Forces in World War II.

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Segment Synopsis: Morgan talks about enlisting into the Air Force and training to to be a gunner on an air plane.

Keywords: Air Force; B-17; B-24; Bowman Field; England; Enlisted; Fort Logan; Gander Bay, Newfoundland; Germany; Greenland; Iceland; Las Vegas; Louisiana; Montana; Nashville, Tennessee; Nebraska; New Jersey; Pearl Harbor; Prescott, Maine; Scotland; Shepherd Field, Texas; clerical school; gunnery school

Subjects: Air Force.; B-17 bomber.; B-24 (Bomber); Bowman Field (Ky.); England.; Fort Logan (Colo.); Germany.; Greenland.; Gunnery (School); Iceland.; Louisiana.; Montana.; Nashville (Tenn.); Nebraska.; New Jersey.; Pearl Harbor, Attack on, 1941.; Recruiting and enlistment.; Scotland.

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Segment Synopsis: Morgan talks about the Berlin mission he was on when his plane went down, forcing Morgan and his crew to bail out of the plane and become prisoners of war.

Keywords: Berlin Mission; English Channel; German fighter; Germany; Luftwaffe,; P-38 Lightning; Switzerland; anti-aircraft; bailed out

Subjects: Antiaircraft artillery.; English Channel.; German fighters in World War II.; Germany.; Lightning (Fighter plane); Luftwaffe at war.; Switzerland.

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Segment Synopsis: Morgan talks about being captured in Germany and receiving medical attention in an allied staff hospital.

Keywords: American Red Cross; Axis Sally; Berlin; D-bars; German Air Force; German propaganda; Luftwaffe hospital; Obermas Field, Germany; Poland; Polish prisoners of war; Red Cross; Russians; Stalag Luft I; Stalag Luft IV; allied staff hospital; obermassfeld hospital; parachuted; wounds

Subjects: American Red Cross.; Berlin (Germany); Luftwaffe.; War--Relief of sick and wounded.

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Segment Synopsis: Morgan talks about his experience in the prisoner of war camp.

Keywords: American Red Cross; Geneva Convention; German guards; Nazi youth; Spam; black bread; cigarettes; coffee; horse meat; meal

Subjects: American Red Cross.; Geneva Convention (1929); Hitler Youth.; Horsemeat.

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Segment Synopsis: Talks about being interrogated at Dulag Luft and being put in solitary confinement.

Keywords: Dulag Luft; Frankfurt, Germany; bailed out; dog tag; interrogation; solitary confinement; spy

Subjects: Frankfurt (Germany); Questioning.; Solitary confinement.

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Segment Synopsis: Morgan talks about the escape attempts at the prisoner of war camp where he stayed and being liberated by the Russians on May 1, 1945.

Keywords: American Red Cross; Baltic Sea; British; Eighth Air Force; Germans; Gestapo; Hitler; La Havre, France; Poland; Russian Front; Russians; Stalag Luft I; Stalag Luft IV; captured; killed; mail; prisoner of war

Subjects: American Red Cross.; Baltic Sea.; British.; Germans.; Germany. Geheime Staatspolizei.; Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945.; Mail.; Poland.; Prisoner of war.; Russians.; Stalag Luft I.; Stalag Luft IV.

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Segment Synopsis: Morgan talks about his return home on the USS General Buckner and keeping in touch with his crew members.

Keywords: American Legion; Camp Atterbury; DAV 155; Eminence, Ky; Henry County; Kentucky; Louisiana; Miami Beach; New Jersey; Post Office Department; Roy Wilson Chevrolet; Smithfield, Kentucky; U.S. General Buckner; U.S. Rural Carrier

Subjects: American Legion.; Camp Atterbury (Ind.); Disabled American Veterans.; Eminence (Ky.); Henry County (Ky.); Kentucky.; Louisiana.; Miami Beach (Fla.); New Jersey.; Postal service.; Smithfield (Ky.)

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Segment Synopsis: Morgan describes what is in the photographs he brought with him.

Keywords: 17 jewel Elgin watch; B-17; Courier-Journal; Geneva Convention; Henry County Local; Lucky Seven; prisoner of war money; tail gunner

Subjects: B-17 bomber.; Courier-journal (Louisville, Ky.); Geneva Convention (1929)