Oral History Interview with Robert Gayle

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Robert Gayle. Gayle joined the Army Air Forces and was trained in aerial gunnery before joining the 2nd Bomb Group in Italy in 1944. On his first mission, he had to ditch in the Adriatic and was picked up by a British floatplane. In February, 1945, on his fourteenth mission, he had to bail out of a crippled B-17 over Hungary. He was captured with other crewmembers and taken to Vienna and handed over to the Germans as a prisoner of war