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John D. Carroll World War II Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2000-09-14
Contents of the Collection The John D. Carroll World War II Collection relates to the World War II experience of 1st Lieutenant John D. Carroll, who served as a flight navigator and bombardier. It includes aeronautical charts for Hong Kong and Hungtze, China and Osaka and Choshi, Japan as well as a small amount of newspaper clippings related to World War II. Also present are photographs depicting military operations, such as reconnaissance and aerial bombardment, and aircraft, predominantly the B-29. The B-29 is...
Dates: circa 1940s

Mac R. Johnson Tokyo Bombing Run Teletype

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2018-00-00-180
Contents of the Collection This small collection is comprised of United Press war correspondent Mac R. Johnson's teletype firsthand account as an observer onboard the B-29 aircraft "Little Gem" for a combat mission on November 24, 1944. The mission described in the teletype is the United States Air Force's first B-29 air raid on Tokyo. Johnson wrote a dramatic and detailed description of events onboard as the squadron performed a high altitude bombing over the target, the Nakajima Aircraft Factory. The...
Dates: 1944 November 24

Dean Mesnard World War II Navigator Chart

 Collection — oversize: folder 1
Identifier: 2004-05-24
Contents of the Collection The collection contains a single navigational chart printed October 1944 and used by the United States Army Air Forces, 505th Bombardment Group during World War II. The top of the chart is printed as "AAF Special Plotting Chart, Chart No. S-501, Restricted." There are plotting notations done in pencil with various markings, presumably to aid the navigator. On the front of the chart is also a note that reads "Mission #22, Osaka, Japan, June 1, 1945, Crew 83-10, 505th Bomb Group." The front of...
Dates: 1944

William Orthman World War II Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 1991-07-17-A
Abstract

William Orthman (1911-1990) was drafted into the United States Army in 1942. He served in the China-Burma-India Theater as Public Relations Officer. The collection is comprised of 340 photographs and a small amount of textual materials from his 1945-1946 service.

Dates: 1945-1946

Norman G. Stromer Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2019-09-19
Overview Major Norman George Stromer (1922-2019) was an Army Air Corps pilot who participated in bombing campaigns in the South West Pacific during World War II, served as part of the Military Air Transport Service (MATS), and worked as a fight inspector for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). This collection contains photographs, military records, certificates, and other textual materials documenting his military service, post-military career, and personal life, primarily dating from...
Dates: 1922-2017; Majority of material found within 1940-1960

Ralph Wandrey Fighter Ace Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2017-04-18
Abstract

Ralph H. Wandrey (1921-2020) was a World War II American fighter pilot and ace. The Ralph Wandrey Fighter Ace Collection documents fighter pilot and ace Ralph Wandrey's World War II service as well as activities associated to his veteran status, from 1935-2009. A smaller amount of material is personal in nature. Types of material include military records, a pilot's log, photographs, scrapbooks, correspondence, pamphlets, personal and educational records and clippings.

Dates: 1935-2009, undated

Harold W. Zipp Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 1992-11-12
Abstract

Harold W. Zipp was an engineer at the Boeing Company for forty years. The collection documents his career, particularly his tenure in Wichita, Kansas, with diaries, photographs and other documents.

Dates: circa 1930-1971; Majority of material found within 1930-1951

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photographic prints 5
correspondence 4
logs (records) 4
clippings (information artifacts) 3
military records 3
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Air pilots, Military 2
Airlift, Military 2
Boeing B-29 Superfortress Family (Model 345) 2
Flight navigators 2
Hong Kong (China) 2
Japan 2
Navigation (Aeronautics) 2
Soldiers 2
Tokyo (Japan) 2
V-J Day, 1945 2
certificates 2
maps (documents) 2
printed ephemera 2
Aces (Fighter pilots) 1
Aids to air navigation 1
Aircraft accidents 1
Airdrop 1
Airplanes -- Air refueling 1
Airplanes -- Design and construction 1
Airplanes -- Flight testing 1
Airplanes, Military 1
Atomic bomb 1
Attack planes 1
Boeing B-17 Model 299 Flying Fortress ("XB-17") 1
Boeing B-29 Superfortress 1
Boeing B-47B Stratojet 1
Boeing B-50A 1
Boeing C-40A Clipper (737-700C) 1
Boeing C-75 Stratoliner (Model 307) 1
Boeing C-97 Stratofreighter Family (Model 367) 1
Boeing Model 377 Stratocruiser Family 1
Boeing Model 417 1
Boeing Model 737 Family 1
Boeing Model 747 Family 1
Boeing YL-15 Scout 1
Bombing, Aerial 1
Bowlby Sunbeam 1
Brown Monoplane 1
Bucholz Army Airfield (Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands) 1
Buildings -- War damage 1
Burma 1
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Casablanca (Morocco) 1
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China 1
Consolidated B-24 Liberator Family 1
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Douglas C-124 Globemaster II Family 1
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Douglas C-54 Skymaster 1
Douglas DC-1 1
Douglas DC-2 Family 1
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Flight engineers 1
Flight training 1
Forrest Sherman Field (Fla.) 1
Guam 1
Hickam Air Force Base (Hawaii) 1
Hunter Field (Savannah, Ga.) 1
Kowloon (China) 1
Lincoln (Neb.) 1
Lockheed P-38 Lightning Family 1
Luke Air Force Base (Ariz.) 1
Lycoming R-680 1
Mascots 1
Mason City (Iowa) 1
Military cadets 1
Military training camps 1
Nagaoka (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945 1
North American P-51 Mustang Family 1
Northrop Alpha 4 1
Northrop Beta 3 1
Osaka (Japan) 1
Palm Beach Air Force Base (Fla.) 1
Papua New Guinea 1
Parades 1
Pitcairn PCA-2 Autogiro 1
Prisoner-of-war camps 1
Prisoners of war 1
Radar 1
Recreation 1
Republic P-47 (F-47) Thunderbolt Family 1
Saipan (Northern Mariana Islands) 1
Seattle (Wash.) 1
Shanghai (China) 1
Stearman (1927) Model 4-CM Junior Speedmail 1
Stearman (1927) Model 76 Family 1
Stearman (1927) Model 80 1
Stearman (1927) Model 81 1
Stearman (1927) Model A73B1 (Cuba) 1
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United States. Army Air Forces 4
United States. Army. Air Corps 2
United States. Navy 2
Allen, Edmund Turney, 1896-1943 1
Allen, William M., 1900-1985 1
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American Airlines 1
Antietam (Aircraft carrier) 1
Argentina. Armada 1
Beall, Wellwood Edmeston, 1906-1978 1
Bellevue College (Bellevue, Wash.) 1
Boeing Company 1
Boeing Company. Wichita Division 1
Bong, Richard Ira, 1920-1945 1
Brackin, Harl V. 1
Brazil. Fôrça Aérea Brasileira 1
Carroll, John D. 1
Chennault, Claire Lee, 1893-1958 1
Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975 1
Chiang, May-ling Soong, 1897-2003 1
Cuba. Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias 1
Grinnell, Roy, 1933-2019 1
Hamilton Field (Calif.) 1
Johnson, Mac R., 1914-1984 1
Johnson, Philip G. (Philip Gustav), 1894-1944 1
Johnson, Robert W. 1
Johnston Atoll Airport (United States Minor Outlying Islands) 1
Knoll 1
Levy, David "Deed" 1
MacArthur, Douglas, 1880-1964 1
Mesnard, Dean 1
Missouri (Battleship : BB-63) 1
Mukden (Prisoner of war camp) 1
Nimitz, Chester W. (Chester William), 1885-1966 1
Orthman, William G., 1911-1990 1
Quiet Birdmen 1
Schaefer, Julius E. 1
Shamshuipo (Concentration camp) 1
Short, Mac 1
Spaatz, Carl, 1891-1974 1
Stearman (1927) 1
Stearman, Lloyd, 1898-1975 1
Stratemeyer, George E., 1890-1969 1
Stromer, Camille, 1923-2004 1
Stromer, Norman G., 1922-2019 1
Thorne, Henry G. (Henry Garfield), 1913- 1
Tibbets, Paul W. (Paul Warfield), 1915-2007 1
United States. Air Force Reserve 1
United States. Air Force. Air Control Group, 513th 1
United States. Air Force. Air Force, 14th 1
United States. Air Force. Air Transport Squadron, 20th 1
United States. Air Force. Far East Air Forces 1
United States. Army Air Forces. Air Force, 5th 1
United States. Army Air Forces. Air Service Command 1
United States. Army Air Forces. Air Service Group, 381st 1
United States. Army Air Forces. Army Airways Communications System 1
United States. Army Air Forces. Band, 681st 1
United States. Army Air Forces. Bombardment Group (Very Heavy), 505th 1
United States. Army Air Forces. Bombardment Group, 90th 1
United States. Army Air Forces. Bombardment Squadron, 400th 1
United States. Army Air Forces. Fighter Group, 49th 1
United States. Army Air Forces. Fighter Squadron, 9th 1
United States. Army Air Forces. Replacement Training Unit, 430th 1
United States. Army. Air Corps. Air Force, 10th 1
United States. Army. Forces in China-Burma-India Theater 1
United States. Army. Women's Army Corps 1
United States. Department of Defense 1
United States. Federal Aviation Administration 1
Wandrey, Ralph H., 1921-2020 1
Wells, Edward C., 1910-1986 1
Whitehead, Ennis Clement, 1895-1964 1
Wilson, T. A. (Thornton Arnold), 1921-1999 1
Zimmerman, John 1
Zipp, Harold W., 1906-1991 1
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