Oral History A6: Dwight A. Lambert, Army Air Corps
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Dwight Lambert's Story
Dwight Lambert was among the first navigators trained in the new technology known as Radar. He served as a radar navigator on a B-17 "Flying Fortress" in the European Theater of Operations. He was shot down on his 12th mission over Germany and spent the rest of the war in a German POW camp.
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Lambert in 1940.
B-17 on a bombing run. Click the photo for more information about the plane.
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Dwight and his wife Margery before the war. They were high school and then college sweethearts.
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