Curtis Burns: Interview
- Date
2006-11-10
- Main contributor
Burns, Curtis
- Summary
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Curtis Burns, U.S. Air Force, Vietnam (A&M Class of ‘52) (Interviewed Nov. 10, 2006) Major Curt Burns was an airman with plenty of passion and little fear. He grew up in a home about where G. Rollie White Coliseum once stood. He piloted five different jet fighters during his service in Europe and Vietnam. He spent 20 years as an Air Force pilot and logged more than 5,000 hours in the air. In retirement, he was the coach of A&M’s National Champion Pistol team.
- Contributors
KAMU-TV (Television station : College Station, Tex.); Turbiville, Tom
- Genres
MovingImage; interview; Oral histories
- Subjects
Burns, Curtis; Veterans--United States--Interviews; United States. Air Force; Vietnam War, 1961-1975
- Collection
Veterans of the Valley
- Unit
Collections
- Language
English
- Terms of Use
In copyright-educational use permitted; For more information, see http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
- Notes
Items in this collection were donated to Cushing Memorial Library and Archives in 2017 by Tom Turbiville
Creation/Production Credits
From "Veterans of the Valley," a television series created by host Tom Turbiville and produced at KAMU-TV’s studio on the Texas A&M University, College Station campus
Local Note
reformatted digital
- Other Identifier
Catalog Key: 03-VOTV-Burns_Curtis-video
Access Restrictions
This item is accessible by: the public.