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69 Squadron Israel Air Force Photograph Collection

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: 1985-07-27-D
Contents of the Collection

This collection is comprised of four color photographs of first Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and his wife, Paula, with 69 Squadron, Israel Air Force, inspecting Boeing B-17 aircraft that had participated in Israel's War of Independence in 1948. Included is a detailed description of how three repurposed B-17s shifted Israel's air potential during the war.

Dates: Circa 1948-1973

1910 Los Angeles Air Meet newspaper clippings

 Collection — Box: Scrapbook Box 7
Identifier: 2019-00-00-2
Contents of the Collection

The collection is one (1) scrapbook of assorted newspaper clippings related to the 1910 International Air Meet at Dominguez Field in Los Angeles, California. The scrapbook is coverless with a failing binding. The clippings are from assorted unidentified newspapers and are glued to the pages, though some are loose.

It is unknown who collected the clippings.

Dates: 1910

Daniel Abramson Korean War Photograph Album

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2020-02-26
Content Description The Daniel Abramson Korean War Photograph Album consists of one album with snapshots documenting Abramson's service in the United States Air Force during the Korean War.The album has a teal cover with a Chinese or Japanese style dragon plate on the front cover, presumably purchased during his time abroad in service. It measures approximately 9x12x1.5 inches and has black paper pages. Inside there are 143 black-and-white photographs, each about 3.5x4.5 inches, affixed with album...
Dates: 1952-1953, 2004

George E. Adams, Jr. Papers and Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2002-03-15
Abstract

Collection of materials related to the military service of Second Lieutenant George E. Adams Jr., who served as a reconnaissance pilot in World War II.

Dates: circa 1943 to 1945

Joe Aiken Films

 Collection — Box: Film Box 4, Reel: 1-6
Identifier: 1998-12-28
Contents of the Collection The Joe Aiken Films are comprised of six films shot, produced, or compiled by Joe Aiken of 20th Century Fox Studio, from approximately 1918-1947. The films contain a mix of newsreel footage, documentary footage of aircraft manufacturing, and flight footage. Three of the films contain footage of World War I flying aces, flying squadrons, World War I-era aircraft, and transatlantic flight attempts. One of the films contains newsreel footage of the attack on Pearl Harbor in World War II and the...
Dates: circa 1918-1950s

Air Memorial Day Program

 Collection
Identifier: 2011-00-00-37
Abstract

The collection contains a program for an air show honoring servicemen who died during World War I.

Dates: 1919 May 18

Air Show and Air Race Collection

 Collection — Box: One
Identifier: 2018-00-00-137
Contents of the Collection

The Air Show and Air Race Collection is a small collection pertaining to assorted historic air events. This is an artificial collection with materials gathered from a variety of sources.

The collection is primarily comprised of newspaper clippings and printed ephemera. Events documented include the Chicago International Air Show in Grant Park in 1911 and Rudolph's Flying Circus from 1984.

Dates: 1911, 1984

Dorothy Allen and Carol Gounaris Flying Tiger Flight Attendant Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2010-04-14-A
Contents of the Collection The collection is comprised of primarily textual materials with a small amount of photographs that are related to Dorothy (Jesseman) Allen and Carol (Prentice) Gounaris who worked for the Flying Tiger Line as flight attendants, 1960-1964. The collection has been sorted into two series.Series I, Dorothy Allen materials, is the bulk of the collection. It includes Flying Tiger employee documentation in the form of a 1962 flight attendant seniority list, cholera vaccination...
Dates: 1960-1964

John W. Allen World War II Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2022-04-29-2
Overview

John W. Allen was a B-17 navigator during World War II. The collection consists of visual, audiovisual, and textual materials documenting Allen's missions in Europe with the 91st Bomb Group (H), 401st Bomb Squadron.

Dates: 1942-1945, 1976-1978, 1996-2002

Gene M. Allred Air-Navigation Workbook

 Collection — Box: Small Collections Oversize 2019-
Identifier: 2022-00-00-105
Content Description The Gene M. Allred Air-Navigation Workbook is a small collection consisting of a single item: the Air-navigation workbook: pre-flight--primary training manual used by Allred at the U.S. Navy Pre-Flight School, at St. May's College in California in 1943. The workbook was published by the Aviation Training Division, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Air) U.S. Navy and consists of position plotting sheets, sheets of graph paper, logs, and a star finder and...
Dates: 1943

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photographic prints 393
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World War, 1914-1918 73
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photocopies 61
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Air pilots 59
negatives (photographs) 55
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photograph albums 52
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identity cards 48
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Boeing Company -- Employees 46
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Women in aeronautics 38
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slides (photographs) 36
France 35
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newsletters 31
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Women air pilots 22
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Consolidated B-24 Liberator Family 20
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manuals (instructional materials) 18
transportation timetables 18
Boeing B-29 Superfortress 17
England 17
TMOF Aircraft 17
audiocassettes 17
diplomas 17
instructional materials 17
personnel records 17
16mm (photographic film size) 16
Aces (Fighter pilots) 16
Air mail service 16
Boeing B-29 Superfortress Family (Model 345) 16
blueprints (reprographic copies) 16
de Havilland (Airco) D.H.4 16
stationery 16
Armed Forces -- Officers 15
Astronauts 15
Boeing B-17 Model 299 Flying Fortress ("XB-17") 15
Boeing B-52 Stratofortress Family (Model 464) 15
Douglas C-47 Skytrain Family 15
Douglas DC-3 Family 15
Hawaii 15
Lockheed P-38 Lightning Family 15
Military education 15
airline maps 15
Air shows 14
Airplanes -- Flight testing 14
DVDs 14
manuscripts (documents) 14
navigation charts 14
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United States. Navy 68
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United States. Army Air Forces 52
Pan American World Airways, Inc 39
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Boeing Company 37
United Airlines 36
United States. Army. Air Corps 25
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration 23
United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces 21
Northwest Airlines Corporation 19
United States. Army. Air Service 19
Trans World Airlines 18
Western Airlines 16
United States. Army 15
King County International Airport 14
Project Apollo (U.S.) 14
United States. Marine Corps 13
Great Britain. Royal Air Force 11
Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974 11
American Airlines 10
Boeing, William Edward, 1881-1956 10
Douglas 10
North American Aviation 9
Northwest Airlines, Inc. 9
United States. Army Air Forces. Air Force, 8th 9
United States. Civil Aeronautics Administration 9
United States. Naval Reserve 8
Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.) 8
Alaska Airlines 7
Apollo 11 (Spacecraft) 7
Braniff Airways 7
Canada. Royal Canadian Air Force 7
Curtiss 7
Curtiss, Glenn Hammond, 1878-1930 7
Douglas Aircraft Company 7
Lockheed 7
Rickenbacker, Eddie, 1890-1973 7
Slayton, Donald K., 1924-1993 7
Wright, Orville, 1871-1948 7
Wright, Wilbur, 1867-1912 7
American Fighter Aces Association 6
Boeing School of Aeronautics (Oakland, Calif.) 6
Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975 6
Earhart, Amelia, 1897-1937 6
Eastern Air Lines 6
National Championship Air Races 6
United States. Army. European Theater of Operations 6
Air Line Pilots Association 5
Apollo 13 (Spacecraft) 5
Boeing Air Transport 5
British Airways 5
Consolidated Aircraft Corp 5
Delta Air Lines 5
Douglas World Cruiser (DWC) "Boston" (#3) 5
Douglas World Cruiser (DWC) "Chicago" (#2) 5
Douglas World Cruiser (DWC) "New Orleans" (#4) 5
Douglas World Cruiser (DWC) "Seattle" (#1) 5
Flying Tiger Line 5
Great Britain. Royal Flying Corps 5
Hughes Airwest 5
John F. Kennedy Space Center 5
Kelly Field (Tex.) 5
Lunar Orbiter (Artificial satellite) 5
Merrill, A. Elliott (Albert), 1901-1992 5
Northrop 5
Pearson Field (Vancouver, Wash.) 5
Post, Wiley, 1898-1935 5
Ryan NYP "Spirit of St Louis" 5
Showalter, N.D. (Noah David), 1925-2012 5
United States. Army. Air Service. Aero Squadron, 95th 5
United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces. Services of Supply 5
United States. Army. Forces in China-Burma-India Theater 5
Allen, Edmund Turney, 1896-1943 4
Apollo Soyuz Test Project 4
Armstrong, Neil, 1930-2012 4
Barr, Julius A., 1905-1939 4
Beall, Wellwood Edmeston, 1906-1978 4
Boeing Company. Wichita Division 4
Boeing, Bertha Marie (Potter Paschall), 1891-1977 4
Chennault, Claire Lee, 1893-1958 4
China. Kong jun. American Volunteer Group 4
Continental Airlines 4
Doolittle, James Harold, 1896-1993 4
Douglas, Donald Wills, Sr., 1892-1981 4
Fornasero, John B., 1904-1967 4
Germany. Luftwaffe 4
Graf Zeppelin (Airship) 4
Haise, Fred, 1933- 4
Horizon Air 4
KLM (Airline) 4
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 4
Langley Field (Va.) 4
Lovell, Jim 4
McDonnell Douglas Corporation 4
Museum of Flight (Seattle, Wash.) 4
Pacific Alaska Airways 4
Pacific Northern Airlines 4
Pershing, John J. (John Joseph), 1860-1948 4
Republic Airlines 4
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