New Guinea Theatre in World War II
49th Fighter Group, 9th Fighter Squadron
by George D. Alber
This is my experience in New Guinea, short of a year
total
flying duty, about 300 hours. I also flew about 60 hours of
engineering test flights.
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WWII Combat Experience Tour of Duty in New Guinea Two combat victories in the P-38 Lightning |
The following collection of pictures and captions
are courtesy
to this website from George Alber's
personal yearbook. Be patient, some pages are
graphically intense, and take extra time to load.
| This is me as an aviation cadet in 1942. I joined the US AAC in 1939, and became a Weather Observer and Forecaster. |
There I am, the happy aviator. I began Flight School in January 1942: PT-17, BT-13A, AT-9, AT-10. I soloed March 11, 1942. In those days for intercom, it was a one way deal! The instructor up forward had a hollow tube with a funnel on it back to our ears, which he could shout into, and we couldn't say a word. The PT-17s we flew had no airspeed indicators or brakes. We judged airspeed by the sound of wind through the wires. |
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