Air Museum of Minnesota Oral History Project: Interview with Don C. Braun

Titles: Air Museum of Minnesota Oral History Project: Interview with Don C. Braun (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Don C. Braun was born in St. Cloud, Minnesota and started flying in 1930 in his late teens. He moved to Canada in the early 1940s and flew for the Royal Canadian Air Force in World War II. He returned to Minnesota in the late 1960s, and retired. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Braun's early life in St. Cloud. His early flying experiences in gliders. His work in an airplane factory in Colorado. Time spent flying in Chicago, Harlem and Detroit and the types of aircraft he used. His move to Canada at the beginning of World War II. Several anecdotes about flying around Canada during the war. His time as a trucker after the war. His work as a freelance pilot. A long story about flying to the North Pole and trying to land on the ice there. Anecdotes about what to wear at the North Pole and navigation tools of the time. The challenges of flying cattle. His return to the states in 1969 and his retirement to the St. Cloud area.

Dates

• 05/14/1980 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewee: Braun, Don C.
• interviewer: Holey, George

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 101
• Accession Number: AV1992.88.2

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

• Oral History - Project, MHS Collection, project: 'Air Museum of Minnesota Oral History Project' <OH 101>

Quantity: 2 hours sound cassette 49 pages transcript

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 120 minutes length

Subjects

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