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Show HARRY A. MOYER November 22,2002 HAR: Yeah, you know, you take these guys just out in advanced, and you check them on the P-40's, and you go out and do tactics, you know. BEN: Did they, do you think a real good instructor, having all the experience that you have, and having gone through all the training yourself, do you think they liked you? I mean, did you really try to let them know what it was all about? HAR: Oh yeah. Yeah, I guess those guys always looked up to us in ways, as we did the guys before us. You know, they were just brand new Second Lieutenants and we were Captains, and you know, all the medals and that kind of crap on, so we must have been something. But it was still rapport. And they always respected us. Jim Brink and I were in the same instructing flight. BEN: Did you mind doing that, or did you want to go overseas again? HAR: Well, you know, I didn't know. I'd probably, in retrospect, I'd made a decision that I didn't go. And I don't know whether I've always regretted it, or not. BEN: Well, you put in good time at least! You had one tour doing that stuff! So, not that big of a deal, but you might like to have done it, huh? HAR: Well, things are just kept and going on, because I still wanted to- I only got two. And everybody wanted to be an ace, I mean just to shoot down airplanes. It kind of sounds like a dumb thing to say now, but at that time that was the thing! We were trained to shoot down airplanes and kill people. That's what the hell we trained for, for years! So anyway, we kind of went along with the deal, and I was an instructor pilot out there. And then we were transferred from there down to Alamogordo, New Mexico, 107 |
