Part 2 of The Robert Kopper WW II Series with Aviator Rob Roy Is Here

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On May 6, 2013, Part 2 of The Robert Kopper Show's 4-part World War Two series was filmed by volunteers of pembrokecommunitymedia.com in the Pembroke, Massachusetts home of torpedo bomber and fighter pilot Rob Roy III.

The show is playing in the "Community" section of the Robert Kopper Show category.

Kopper reintroduces and interviews Roy who talks about flight training, and personally reads war-time letters written to his mother over sixty years ago.

"She saved everything I sent her," Roy said. "But I didn't find that out until after her death.  Some of these letters recount events that even I didn't remember until I read them again on this show."

Young recruits were encouraged to write home, prompting Roy to admit that "I would never probably have written."

Rob Roy III is one of the more seasoned Pembroke Community Media volunteers. Before featuring himself in this 4-part series, Roy was active in many of the 15 Inspirational shows made this past year at and for The First Church in Pembroke.

In the 1920s the Roy family settled in Wellsboro Pennsylvania where Rob Roy II ran the weekly "Wellsboro agitator" which had the motto "The agitation of thought is the beginning of wisdom."

Lydia and Rob II had two daughters, Constance and Anne, in addition to Rob III. The elder Roy died when young Rob was only 5, forcing the budding family to move back east to live with Lydia's parents in Quincy.

Roy started college at Harvard University the summer following high school graduation and then interrupted those studies to join the military and take college classes at The University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia.

Go to the 14 minute, 15 second point in the video to see a hand-drawn map of the "navy part of the campus" reorganized to accommodate training for military personnel.  You'll be amazed to see how the entire University layout was changed to help train pilots for the war effort.

"The campus of The University of Georgia is on two huge hills," he writes, "and three round trips a day means six climbs."   He continues, "At least two and sometimes three times a day we had to negotiate the Burma Road which is well named."

Roy passed those aviation-related college classes with "flying colors," and quickly qualified to be a pilot.

After the war, Roy was able to resume studies at Harvard to earn a bachelor's degree.

The video is 24 minutes, 10 seconds long, and shares plenty of intriguing, black-and-white period pictures lined up and photographed for you by volunteer Janet Callaghan. Shots are from Mr. Roy's personal, one-of-a kind collection of memorabilia.

Go to www.pembrokecommunitymedia.com for easy viewing.

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