Sidney D. White |
Sidney White, Camp Patrick Henry, Virginia [1943] | World War II, 1939-1946
Army
930th Aviation Engineers
Fort Dix, New Jersey; Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri; Lexington, Kentucky; Gower Field, Boise, Idaho; Geiger Field, Spokane, Washington; North Africa; China-Burma-India (CBI) Theater
Sergeant
Detroit, MI
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Eighteen-year-old Army private Sid White caught a big break early in his service career when he was assigned to a topographical drawing class at the University of Kentucky. White got to poke fun at some of the absurdities of GI life in illustrating instruction manuals, before he wound up in a unit of engineers building runways for B-29s in the China-Burma-India Theater. There, his artwork took a more serious turn when he executed designs for modifying aircraft and command quarters. His sketches from his travels through Northern Africa and in India and Burma complement the forthright memoir of a man who admits he never fired a shot in World War II.
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