Parks Warnock, Jr.

served as pilot and meteorologist in the United States Army Air Corps; retired mechanical engineer and clothing plant manager

"The planes that we flew were special equiped. We had as much, uh, electronic equiptment in those B-25's as a, as the B-29's that made the strike against Japan...We had a tremendous amount of electronic equiptment. We had a radar dome. Uh, about three and a half, four feet in diameter. It stuck down about four feet below the belly of the plane. And, uh, we had uh, we could use, we could use that radar for weather observation. We could pick up thunderstorms, an' rains an' so forth, an' also use it for navigation."

'' ...It [the war] gave more people a better idea of the size and the wonder of the United States. And those of us who traveled outside of the United States developed a greater love for this country."

"I think it gave a lot of people a greater concern and a greater love for this country. I think it changed a lot of people's attitude about this country and what we have in this country."

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