The Civilian Pilot Training Program they were a part of was a real program started just prior to WW-II, although it was phased out in the summer of 1944. A number of famous pilots received their flight training through the CPTP.
Archie Hall:
Were you as shocked as I was about the fuss all those guys put up about us getting passes?
William 'Bill' Bowers:
It wasn't that so much as it was that we were the only two in our barracks not on that KP list. Several of them were muttering something about "those two ...
Archie Hall:
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Cindy Hamilton refers to Col. Edwin Martin as "Uncle Frank".
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