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Show EDWARD G. LUEDERS February 1 2000 WIN: And at your age, could you feel this about Roosevelt? EDW: Oh yes! I did indeed, and in spite of the fact that my father was a dedicated Republican, and he (and my mother following his lead) used to refer in the most supercilious terms to "That fellow in the White House." And they even detested more Harry Truman! But I had an independence of feeling, and particularly since I was separated from a family of those sorts and serving in uniform, I felt that the war was being run well enough against all those odds, in a good part because of our political leadership. WIN: Let's get back to where you were stationed at. EDW: Yes. WIN: From there, you would go out to wherever you were called to put on shows? EDW: I went on two of these tours, which were brought together and rehearsed by Captain Larry Clinton, the orchestra leader, in Calcutta, in the special services headquarters in Calcutta. And we'd be rehearsed there, as a show, and then sent out, under our own leadership, with usually a staff sergeant, and I was a buck sergeant, the second time, the second tour. I had a responsible role in making our itinerary. We would go from base to base, and have to make it through the special service officers at each base to set us up at the next place we would go. So this was pretty much ad-lib, and we had to clear with the flight officers in each case, to get our troop (the first time with only five of us, the second time there were ten, I think, in the troop, a larger effort), and our way with an open-ended itinerary. As long as there were ATC personnel 38 |
