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This is a photograph of Robert S. Raymond dressed in his pilot's uniform. In the spring of 1940, he joined the American Volunteer Ambulance Corps and went to France. He drove ambulances into unoccupied France where they became trapped by the German army and escaped through Spain and Portugal. Raymond traveled to England where he joined the Royal Air Force and became a bomber pilot. Later, he was transferred to the United States Army Air Force in England and shipped back the U. S. where he learned to fly B-17s and B-24s. This photograph appears in Diary Of A Volunteer, 1940-1943, by Robert S. Raymond.
Creator: Raymond, Robert S
Date: 1942
Item Number: 306028
Call Number: K B R217 v.2, opposite page 196
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 306028
Collections - Library
Date - 1940s - 1942
Military - Equipment - Uniforms
Military - Wars - World War II
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Book - Illustrations
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Thematic Time Period - World War II, 1939 - 1945
Type of Material - Photographs
Type of Material - Printed materials - Books - Illustrations
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