United States. Army. Air Service. Pursuit Group, 1st
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Herbert Brucker Film
Collection — Box Film Box 2, Reel: 1
Identifier: 2007-11-16-B
Contents of the Collection
The Herbert Brucker Film is a small collection containing one privately shot black-and-white film taken at Mitchell Field in Garden City, New York in 1927. The film is five minutes and 44 seconds long. The footage depicts several well-known aviation events and activities by famous aviators, such as Charles Lindbergh taking off in the "Spirit of St. Louis" for his transatlantic flight; the christening of "America," Richard E. Byrd's Fokker C-2; and James Doolittle performing...
Dates:
1927
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Harold E. Hartney Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2013-07-03
Abstract
Harold E. Hartney (1888-1945) rose through the ranks of the Canadian Army to become the Commander of the U.S. Air Service's 27th Aero Squadron in France during World War I. Credited as an ace and recipient of numerous military awards, after the war Hartney went on to train military pilots, advise on air safety, and serve again in World War II. The collection contains photographs, correspondence, clippings, and paper ephemera relating to Hartney's World War and interwar careers, as well as...
Dates:
circa 1914-1980s (bulk dates 1914-1945); Majority of material found within 1914 - 1945
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Additional filters:
- Subject
- 16mm (photographic film size) 1
- Aeronautics -- Safety measures 1
- Airships 1
- Armed Forces -- Officers 1
- Curtiss JN-4D Jenny 1
- Fighter pilots 1
- Fokker D.VII (V.18) 1
- Garden City (N.Y.) 1
- Mitchel Field (N.Y.) 1
- Morane-Saulnier Type AR (Mo.S.35) 1
- New York (State) 1
- North American AT-6 Texan Family 1
- PDF 1
- Parachuting 1
- SPAD XIII (S.13) 1
- Soldiers 1
- Stunt flying 1
- World War, 1914-1918 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1
- clippings (information artifacts) 1
- comic strips 1
- compact discs 1
- correspondence 1
- photographic prints 1
- printed ephemera 1
- scrapbooks 1 + ∧ less
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