Oral History Interview with Clifford Kantz, November 10, 2015

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Clifford Kantz. Mrs. Marion Kantz assists with the interview. Kantz entered the US Army Air Forces October 1941. He received training at Sheppard Field, Texas and served as a flight officer flying B-24s. He went on to Fort Benning and served as a C-47 pilot. Kantz became an aircraft commander in the 100th Troop Carrier Squadron, towing and dropping gliders and paratroopers. They were stationed in Nottingham, England. When the war was over they brought many French POWs out of Germany back to France. They also took supplies to the front for the American troops, and brought out the wounded. He came back to the States in October 1945, and remained on active duty until 1963 when he retired. After the military he became a teacher