Interview with Charles S. Ellington Ellington, Charles, interviewee contributor ctb Dandridge, Deborah contributor ctb 2011-12-13 Born in Sabetha, Kansas, Mr. Ellington moved with his family to Topeka where he completed his high school education. When he began his college education at Washburn University he recalls calling the draft board to find out why his name had not yet been called. Drafted in July, 1943, he briefly describes going to Fort Leavenworth and resisting efforts to place him in the Navy. After receiving his basic training at Camp Crowder, Missouri, he is sent to radio training school at Pittsburg State in Kansas and is finally stationed as a radio operator at Godman Field, Kentucky where he served under the command of Colonel Benjamin Davis. The war ended before the 477th Army Air Force support group was sent overseas and Corporal Ellington returned to civilian life in Topeka, Kansas in 1946. sound recording-nonmusical World War (1939-1945) African Americans Oral history English eng electronic Oral history audio/mpeg reformatted digital ku-wwii:7https://digital.lib.ku.edu/ku-wwii/7ksrl_kc_wwii_ellington.mp3 electronic application/pdf https://digital.lib.ku.edu/ku-wwii/8 World War II: The African American Experience, RH MS 1439 Kansas Collection, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas University of Kansas This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. ku-wwii_7_MODS Descriptive metadata from KU Scholarworks. MODS generated, with additional values/elements added, by KU Libraries Digital Initiatives. eng 2020-02-05