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Moving Image / BD-0007 Dick Kinney Lockheed P-38 Lightning Pilot Oral History

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Title
BD-0007 Dick Kinney Lockheed P-38 Lightning Pilot Oral History
Contributing Institution
San Diego Air and Space Museum Library and Archives
Collection
Moving Image Collection
Rights Information
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Description
Interview of Col. Richard Kenney, USAF Ret. by Ron Carrico.From the archives of the San Diego Air and Space Museum. Col.Kenney was a P-38 Pilot in early stages of WW2 during Operation Torch in North Africa. He was shot down in Sicily in June 1943, taken prisoner and spent the rest of the war as a POW of Germans. After the war he stayed int he Army Air Corp and stayed with the USAF flying F-86s and F-100s retiring in 1964. http://www.sandiegoairandspace.org/research/ Please do not use for commercial purposes without permission.
Type
moving image
Subject
San Diego Air and Space Museum
Lockheed P-38 Lightning (Aircraft Model)
Lockheed Corporation (Aircraft Manufacturer)
Pilot (Profession)
Stalag luft 3
Stalag luft 7A
POW
POW WW2
OPERATION TORCH
Almost an Ace
Oral history interviews
Fighter Pilot
Camp Lucky Strike
SDASM/Oral History
Sdasm oral history

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