Interview with William Corpew O'Neal 13
February 22, 1996




0: I wish you hadn't asked me that. C: Okay. In the 4O's. 0: Probably 1943, 1944, maybe 1945. I spent one year in service after Katie and I were
 married. I wanted to stay in, but because of an injury I had received I could not pass a general flight physical. That physical would have qualified me for flight combat. I could not pass that. So they said they were not going to retain any limited duty pilots.
 There were some jobs in the Air Force -- I had one, for instance -- where you flew but you didn't fly combat, where you had to have a MOS (Military Occupational Specialty) which permitted you to fly but it was not a part of your regular duties, and I had one of those. They were abolishing that so I did not want to stay in service and just be a desk
 private, so I went ahead and got out.

C: Now, let's go back one minute. We haven't even given Katie's full name. She was
 Kathryn, and it was K-a-t-h-r-y-n? 0: Yes.

C: H-o-g-u-e?

0: Right.

C: So, after that year that you had spent together and you were out of the service, you came
 back to Florida?

0: We came back to Florida right out of service. C: You hadn't finished college at that time, had you? 0: No.

C: So you finished at the University of Florida? 0: Yes.

C: And then you went on to law school? 0: Yes.
C: And Katie was the one who talked you into going into law school. Is that correct?

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