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Oklahoma, I was sent to Europe where I flew in combat over the
front lines in France and Germany. Our official designation, for
some reason, was "liaison pilots" but the only liaison in which
we ever engaged was when we met Focke-Wulfe and Messerschmidt
fighter planes sweeping in to intercept us.
Like the other pilots with me, I had become an artillery
pilot primarily for the adventure of it. However, my
recollection is that every one of us was also doing this because
it was our way of being part of the United States government'
effort to defeat the German Nazis and the unguestionable evil
which they represented.
I was never so conscious of this, and so satisfied with
being been part of it all, as when -- after supporting the
American infantry which captured the Nazi concentration camp at
Dachau -- I arrived there the day after the infantry took the
place. I saw the incredibly gaunt, starved bodies of the dead
inmates piled high alongside the waiting crematorium with its
great, heavily sooted brick chimney stacks.
I regarded the power which had done this as a temporary
disorder belonging to that part of the world, a Nazi phenomenon,
a Germanic thing. It seemed only natural that our government had
trained us, then sent us across the ocean to help bring to an end
to such a perversion of power.
I had never encountered deception of any kind during my
five years in the Army in World War II. And the Army to me was
synonymous with the United States government. After the Army
years I continued to remain active as a Field Artillery Officer
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