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• W3200907282 abstract "Interview with William (Bill) Edhouse, born in Ohakune in 1922. Talks about his father, who was a sawmiller and saw doctor, and had land which he cleared of bush and gardened as well as leasing some to Chinese market gardeners. Backgrounds the basic living conditions in Ohakune during his boyhood, living off the land, making butter at home and killing their own meat. Mentions attending the local convent school, woodwork classes, and being inquisitive. Comments on attending a Marist Brothers school and beginning training as a teacher at Claremont. Refers to working for a small concrete construction company strengthening road bridges when Waiouru military camp was built in the early 1940s.Talks in detail about his war-time experiences. Discusses spending six weeks in the Territorials and then joining the Air Force and going to the Initial Training Wing at Rotorua in June 1942. Talks about training as a wireless operator and gunner at Milson and Ohakea and then being posted to a joint Air Force-Army unit at Onerahi near Whangarei. Comments on flying surveillance patrols from Whangarei before transferring to No 30 Squadron at Gisbourne in August 1943 to prepare to fly in torpedo bombers, where he flew as an observer and bomb aimer. Discusses training in aircraft and ship recognition, unlike the Americans, and problems with friendly fire in the Pacific. Talks about being transferred to 30 Squadron at Whenuapai for bomber reconnaissance in Venturas and his role as a turret gunner. Discusses his deployment in No 1 Squadron to Guadalcanal in October 1943 and their anti-submarine and anti-shipping patrols, a mine-laying operation, and bombing raids on Japanese positions. Refers to the coast watchers, and discusses pilots he flew with. Recalls weather reconnaissance flights during the monsoon season. Discusses the Japanese anti-aircraft defences at Rabul. Talks about their relationships with American forces they were stationed with and being supplied with food and equipment by the Americans. Mentions a Catholic chaplin Father Ainsworth. Recalls the end of his first tour in March 1944, having home leave with his family, and being transferred to No 9 Squadron for his second tour of duty in the Pacific. Comments on his next posting to the No 6 Flying Boat Squadron and flying in Catalinas on very long reconnaissance operations based in the Solomon Islands. Covers their humanitarian work resupplying hospitals and mission stations on islands. Refers to a difficult flight back to New Zealand in a Catalina through a tropical storm. Mentions doing control tower work for a period before he was discharged from the Air Force. Relates how he trained as a carpenter in New Plymouth after the war, building state houses, and his own home. Interviewer(s) - Martin Halliday Accompanying material - Photocopy of Bill Edworth's flying log book Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-017201 - OHC-017209 Quantity: 1 Electronic document(s) - transcript. 1 transcript(s). 9 C60 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). 9 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-6149, OHDL-000393. Search dates: 1922 - 1939 - 2004 - 1945" @default.
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