World War II: Wings Over Florida

Interviewee

• Bill Dudley, Florida Humanities Council
• Dale Alexander
• Bill Emerson
• Ed Leary
• Gary Mormino
• Harold Weekley
• Rob Paris

Files

Publication Date

9-2007

Abstract

With its year-round warm weather, Florida became home to a host of bases for training airmen during World War II. Dale Alexander, Bill Emerson, Ed Leary, Gary Mormino, Harold Weekley, and Rob Paris contribute.

Keywords

Airmen, Air Bases, World War II (1939-1945), Pilots

Extent

00:05:01; 5 page transcript

Subject: geographic

Escambia County (Fla.); Volusia County (Fla.); Broward County (Fla.); Hillsborough County (Fla.); Pensacola (Fla.); Naval Air Station Pensacola (Fla.); DeLand (Fla.); Fort Lauderdale (Fla.); Tampa (Fla.)

Language

English

Digital Date

2026

Media Type

Audio recordings

Format

Digital Only

Identifier

fhc_audio-1135

Creative Commons

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.

Recommended Citation

Dudley, Bill; Alexander, Dale; Emerson, Bill; Leary, Ed; Mormino, Gary; Weekley, Harold; and Paris, Rob, "World War II: Wings Over Florida" (2007). Florida Humanities Audio Archive. 136.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/fhc_audio/136