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Sergeant Cyril Winklebauer was drafted into the Army (Air Force) in April 1943 and served until February 1946. He did his basic training in Miami Beach, Florida, and cook's training at Camp Lee, Virgina. He worked as a cook at Love Field, Dallas, Texas, for seventeen months. He was interviewed by Suzette McCord-Rogers on Jan 1, 2007. He was born October 30, 1922, in Horton, Kansas. He graduated from Horton High School in 1941. He met his wife-to-be at a USO in Dallas. The 2005 Kansas Legislature passed a bill funding the WWII Veterans Oral History grant program. This transcript is from one of the nine community institutions that received these grants. The transcript from the interview is presented here; the original video copy of the interview is available through the Doniphan County Historical Society (Troy) and through the Kansas State Historical Society.
Creator: Winklebauer, Cyril
Date: 1 January 2007
Item Number: 212230
Call Number: World War II Oral Histories Project
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 212230
Collections - Oral History - Kansas Veterans of World War II - Doniphan County Historical Society, Troy, KS
Date - 2000s - 2007
Military - Service - Air Force
Military - Wars - World War II
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Transcript
Places - Cities and towns - Horton
Places - Counties - Brown
Thematic Time Period - World War II, 1939 - 1945
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Transcript
http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/212230