Preserving The Oral HistorIES of Combat Veterans
0:55 | Pilot Jim Wall remembers the tragic fate of comrade and fellow pilot Courtney during a mission over China.
Keywords : dogfight Japanese pilot
Jim Wall recalls a dangerous encounter with a group of B-25s over China with flight leader Jack Emery and fellow pilots Randy Reeves and Tiny Wilbourne. The B-25s led them into 8 Japanese Zeroes, and Wall and the men tried to break up the Japanese attack.
Pilot Jim Wall remembers the tragic fate of comrade and fellow pilot Courtney during a mission over China.
Jim Wall tells of his one on one dogfight with a Zero
Jim Wall recounts his first dive bomb mission flying ground support for Merrill's Marauders in Burma.
Jim Wall’s time in the Air Force begins with intense training, teaching him all that he needs to know to fly his fighters overseas.
Wall’s combat experience begins overseas during WWII in the Pacific.
Jim Wall continues to fly missions over India and then eventually China, where he is shot down and captured.
Wall is interrogated in his first POW camp, meets another American, a training friend, and is finally moved to a legitimate POW camp.
The war finally ends but the POWs are still in camps, being treated to aid packages and medics whenever it is possible.
After a long imprisonment, Jim Wall is finally able to return home and retire from the Air Force.
