Clemson Veterans Project – Colonel William Austin

Interviewee: Colonel William Austin, Airforce

Commissioned: September 1960.

Honorable Discharge: October 1988 Served: Vietnam 1967 – March 1973

Special Duties: RB47 Navigator, F4 Test Pilot, F4D “Phantom II” Navigator, Wild Weasel Hunter

Prisoner of War

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