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Interview Details

• Title: Oral History Interview with Dr. William Lloyd Stearman

• Interviewed by: Charles Stuart Kennedy

• Date: April 15, 1992

- Copyright: 1998 ADST

Background Information

• Birthplace: Wichita, Kansas

• Birth Year: 1922

• Early Life:

  • Father was an airplane manufacturer, involved with Stearman trainers used in WWII.

  • Moved to California; attended high school in Burlingame, graduating in 1940.

• Education:

  • Initially pursued Geophysics at Colorado School of Mines.

  • Enrolled in the Navy V-12 program, which allowed college students to finish their degrees while preparing for military service.

  • Transferred to the University of California, Berkeley; graduated in 1943 with a major in Math and a minor in History.

• Military Service:

  • Commissioned as Ensign in early 1944; trained at Columbia University.

  • Served on USS LSM 67, participating in amphibious assaults in the Pacific Theater (Philippines and Borneo, 1944-1945).