Crump, Bill 2021-10-28
This recording features Bill Crump as he provides photo captions for many of the photos that he has donated to the Southwest Collection. Included in this recording are World War II aircrafts, World War II Veterans, and women of World War II.
General Interview Information
Interviewee Name: Bill Crump
Additional Parties Recorded:
Date: October 28, 2021
Location: Lubbock, Texas
Interviewer: Zachary Hernandez
Length: 05:01:34 (5 hours 1 minute)
Abstract
Introduction; Archie Donahue; The F-16 airplane, Tex Hill and Ollie Crawford; Tuskegee Airmen; Doc the B-29 airplane; Difficulties of photographing airplanes; A-10 planes; Art, aesthetics, and documentation; Skyraider; Connie Edwards; Blue Notes and Otis Dozier; music in Dallas; Bob Hoover; group photo; Vietnam veterans and planes; Jack Ilfrey, Kenneth Dahlberg,Steve Pisanos; ABG Flying Tigers; B-24s; his near collision experience; briefings; Randy Sohn flying FIFI; Planes built to care atomic bombs during World War II; Nagasaki bombing and Ted Fujita’s analysis of the damage; B-25s and B-29s; His older B-29 photos; B-52; air-to-air refueling photos; How he got involved with photographing some of the planes; B-1; F-4 Phantom; Battle of Britain; helicopters; The Engle’s Piper Cub story; The Beal family; architecture photos; CAF B-17 and The Sea Fury; A-26; P-51; James Hivner, Merle Gustafson, cowboys, women of World War II; Electric tower workers, energy pipeline refinery; F-100 Thunderbirds; Marjorie Johnson
Access Information
Original Recording Format: born digital
Recording Format Notes: patrons may listen to audio in our reading room
Transcript: transcript available on dspace <https://hdl.handle.net/10605/374633 >
Related Interview: Crump, Bill 2021-06-09; Crump, Bill 2021-10-29
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