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Pam 2/4/08 WWII Interview Project I interview my next door neighbor Mr. Winston for my project. I interviewed him because he was in WWII, and it was easy for me to go to his house. I chose him to interview because we are next door neighbors, and because I knew that he served in the war. I walked over to his house because it was a beautiful day, and because it was about a 10 second walk there. When I went over to his house, I asked him some questions. I asked him “What are your most vivid memories of WWII?” He replied, “I went to flight training and graduated. I flew a V-24 bomber from Texas to Amarillo during a hurricane 200 ft above water. It was a 400 mile flight. Then I said, “What was your role in war?” He then answered, “I was in flight training, and had to fly V-24 bombers. They were bombing planes used against our enemies.” He didn’t actually have a specific location in the war because aviation cadets had to move around a lot to get to different locations. He said that the best thing in the war was learning how to fly. He also said that the worst thing about WWII was being away from home. He said that the war changed the country because if Hitler won then the world would be a bad place to live in and that half of us wouldn’t be alive today. He said, “Hitler started something that he couldn’t finish, so we finished it for him. Mr. Winston was born on April 4, 1925. He is currently 82 years old, and thinks that the war was a good thing. He was 20 years old when he went into war, and served in the secret service for a while after the war.