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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

American Fighter Aces Association Oral Interviews

 Collection
Identifier: 2002-02-13-1139
Abstract

Collection of approximately one hundred twenty (120) oral histories of Fighter Aces and several non-aces, including relatives of aces, other military pilots, and military historians.

Dates: circa 1960s-1990s

Elmer A. Ball World War II Negatives

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2021-06-30
Content Description The Elmer A. Ball World War II Negatives is a collection of 184 photographic negatives taken by Ball during his service with the U.S. Navy, much of which took place in Guam during the later years of World War II. The negatives are all medium format black-and-white negatives, except for one color transparency. They were not organized in any particular manner.The images depict a variety of people, activities, and buildings in and around Naval Air Station Agana on Guam from roughly...
Dates: circa 1944-1950

David F. Beyl and Donald D. Beyl Logbooks

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 2009-09-22
Contents of the Collection The David F. Beyl and Donald D. Beyl log books is a small collection of nine (9) United States Naval Aviator and civilian pilot logbooks belonging to brothers David and Donald Beyl, ranging from 1943-1987. Four (4) of the logbooks belonged to David D. Beyl and span approximately from 1954 to 1978, covering David's US Navy service. The other five (5) logbooks belonged to his brother, Donald F. Beyl, and cover his military and civilian flight history, ranging from 1943-1987. ...
Dates: 1943-1987; Majority of material found within 1950s-1960s

Clarence A. Borley U.S. Naval Aviation Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2022-07-20
Abstract

Clarence A. Borley (1924-2019) was a U.S. Navy fighter pilot and ace. The collection documents Borley's 36-year military career as a pilot and fighter ace in the U.S. Navy and consists of textual, visual and audiovisual materials and primarily dates from 1942 to 1968, with some later dates and a small amount of personal materials.

Dates: 1942-1999, 2015; Majority of material found within 1942-1968

Henry B. Christensen World War II Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2008-09-04-A
Contents of the Collection The Henry B. Christensen World War II Collection is comprised of items primarily related to the World War II military service of United States Navy pilot Henry B. Christensen. The collection contains military records, personnel documents, a pilot's log book and a small amount of black-and-white photographs.There are various identification cards and licenses, including a Naval Aviation Pilot license with a portrait of Christensen, several officer's mess cards, a ribbon...
Dates: 1940-1948

Robert Coats Fighter Ace Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2008-08-02
Contents of the Collection The Robert Coats Fighter Ace Collection consists primarily of military documents relating to the World War II service of Captain Robert Charles Coats. Although Coats served in the United States Navy from 1940 to 1971, the items in this collection are from the years 1940-1951.Included in the collection is Coats' military personnel documents, including two black-and-white photographs of Coats as an aviation cadet. Additional materials consist of his ensign commission, fitness...
Dates: 1940-1951

Thomas B. Davis Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1997-04-18
Content Description The Thomas B. Davis Collection documents Davis’s career with the U.S. Navy and Pacific Northern Airlines with textual and visual materials primarily from 1940s-1960s. A small amount of materials, including log books and photographs, document Davis’s service during World War II. The bulk of the collection relates to Davis’s career as a commercial airline pilot with Pacific Northern Airlines, including certificates, manuals, and training materials. Another man, Frank L....
Dates: Majority of material found within 1940s to 1980s

Stanley J. Dec Naval Aviation Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2010-06-02
Abstract

Stanley Joseph Dec (1920-) was born in Raymond, Washington. After attending flight school in Iowa, Dec joined the military and served as a pilot for the U.S. Navy during World War II. The collection contains documents, logs, and publications documenting the training and military career of World War II U. S. Navy Ensign Stanley J. Dec.

Dates: 1942-1953

The James H. Dilonardo Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2006-01-21
Abstract

James H. Dilonardo was a local aviation enthusiast strongly tied to Boeing Field and The Museum of Flight. His collection consits of photographs, textual materials, sound recordings, and film largely related to aviation in Seattle, Washington and the Pacific Northwest.

Dates: 1930-1981

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Curtiss SB2C Helldiver Family 5
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Flight training 3
Guam 3
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Lockheed P-38 Lightning Family 3
Naval Air Station Corpus Christi (Tex.) 3
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Okinawa Island (Japan) 3
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United States -- Armed Forces -- Insignia 3
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 3
Washington (State) 3
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audiocassettes 3
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open reel audiotapes 3
personnel records 3
photocopies 3
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scrapbooks 3
short snorter 3
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Air pilots -- Licenses -- United States 2
Aircraft carriers -- Flight decks 2
Airplanes -- Design and construction 2
Airports 2
Aleutian Islands (Alaska) 2
Attack planes 2
Aviation ground crews 2
Barnstorming 2
Bell P-39 Airacobra Family 2
Boeing B-29 Superfortress 2
Boeing B-29 Superfortress Family (Model 345) 2
Boeing Model 377 Stratocruiser Family 2
Boeing Y1B-17 Flying Fortress (Model 299B, YB-17, B-17) 2
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Consolidated PBY Catalina Family 2
Denali, Mount (Alaska) 2
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Germany. Luftwaffe 3
United Airlines 3
United States. Army 3
United States. Army. Women's Army Corps 3
American Airlines 2
American Fighter Aces Association 2
Boeing Company 2
Chennault, Claire Lee, 1893-1958 2
Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975 2
Coats, Robert Charles, 1918-2011 2
Great Britain. Royal Air Force 2
Lockheed 2
National Championship Air Races 2
OX-5 Aviation Pioneers (Organization) 2
Ryan NYP "Spirit of St Louis" 2
Stenzel, Dorothy (Hester), 1910-1991 2
Trans World Airlines 2
United States. Army. Air Service 2
United States. Army. Forces in China-Burma-India Theater 2
United States. Civil Aeronautics Administration 2
Whitman, Bruce 2
Aero Industries Corporation 1
Aiken, Joe, 1900-1969 (filmmaker) 1
Airservices Company Ltd. 1
Alaska Airlines 1
Alison, John R. (John Richardson), 1912-2011 1
Allen, Edmund Turney, 1896-1943 1
Allen, William M., 1900-1985 1
Allied Engineering Corporation 1
Allied International Company 1
Anderson, William Y. 1
Antietam (Aircraft carrier) 1
Argentina. Armada 1
Associated Women Pilots of Boeing Field 1
Augarten, Rudolph 1
Baird, Robert 1
Balch, Donald L. 1
Ball, Elmer Allison, 1923-1990 1
Barber, Rex T., 1917- 1
Beall, Wellwood Edmeston, 1906-1978 1
Bechtel, Paul S. 1
Beebe, Marshall Ulrich 1
Beyl, David D., 1935 circa - 1
Beyl, Donald F., 1923-2001 1
Blair, William Knox 1
Boeing 1
Boeing Air Transport 1
Boeing Company. Wichita Division 1
Boeing School of Aeronautics (Oakland, Calif.) 1
Boeing, William Edward, 1881-1956 1
Bohrer, Walt 1
Bong, Richard Ira, 1920-1945 1
Brackin, Harl V. 1
Brazil. Fôrça Aérea Brasileira 1
Brewster 1
Bristol Aeronautics Corporation 1
Bryan, Donald S. 1
Buck, George T. 1
Butler Aircraft Company 1
Butler National Corporation 1
Byrd, Richard Evelyn, 1888-1957 1
Callaway, Raymond L. 1
Canada. Royal Canadian Air Force 1
Caniff, Milton, 1907-1988 1
Carl, Marion E., 1915- 1
Champion, Henry K. 1
Chandler, George T. 1
Chenango (Ship) 1
Chenoweth, Oscar I. 1
Chiang, May-ling Soong, 1897-2003 1
Chick, Louis William, Jr. 1
China Airmotive Company Fed. Inc. 1
China National Aviation Corporation 1
Christensen, Henry Billington, 1909-1990 1
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 1
Civilian Pilot Training Program (U.S.) 1
Clarke, Walter E. 1
Collinsworth, Jerry D. 1
Comstock, Harold E. 1
Conger, Jack E. 1
Conger, Paul A. 1
Consolidated Aircraft Corp 1
Consolidated Trading Company, Limited 1
Cormier, Richard L. 1
Crim, Harry C. 1
Crosby, John T. 1
Cuba. Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias 1
Cunningham, Daniel G. 1
Cupp, James N., 1921-2004 1
Curdes, Louis E. 1
Curtiss 1
Daniel, William A. "Bill", 1913-1998 1
Davis, Leonard K. 1
Davis, Thomas B. 1
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