| Title: |
Ed Hays
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
Chi Chi Press
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| Collection: |
World War II Oral History Interviews
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| Description: |
Ed Hays was a tail gunner in a B-17 named "Elmer's Tune." Gunther Sinnecker was the German fighter pilot who shot down Elmer's Tune over Denmark on Feb. 24, 1944, and whose Messerschmitt 109 was forced to crash land by Hays' B-17. In June of 1998, Hays and Sinnecker met in Berlin, this time with their families' present. The story of the downing of "Elmer's Tune" and its aftermath is told in "Rendezvous with Destiny," a new book by Fritz Ulrich, the son of the Danish farmer over whose fields the battle took place.
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| URL: |
http://www.tankbooks.com/interviews/hays1.htm
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Time span: |
Not indicated ... to 1998 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
Hays, Ed
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker occupation: |
Military personnel
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| Document location: |
Ridgewood, NJ
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| Document date: |
Aug-1998
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| Interviewer: |
Elson, Aaron
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| Historical events discussed: |
World War II, 1939-1945
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| Locations discussed: |
Asia; Europe; North America; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
Asia; Europe; North America; Oral history; United States; United States--Armed Forces; World War II, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns; World War, 1939-1945--Veterans
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0029540-32747
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