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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

American Fighter Aces Association Oral Interviews

 Collection
Identifier: 2002-02-13-OralHist
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

William Frederick Barns Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2012-04-13
Abstract

William Frederick "Bill" Barns (1920-1995) joined the United States Air Force in 1942 and flew in the European Theater during World War II. After the war, Barns served in the USAF in several capacities until his retirement in 1966 when he went to work in the private sector, including for Garrett Corporation. The collection contains a broad array of textual materials as well as photographs and digital images related to his military and professional careers.

Dates: 1941 to 1990s

John D. Carroll World War II Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2000-09-14
Contents of the Collection The collection relates to the World War II experience of 1st Lieutenant John D. Carroll, who served as a flight navigator and bombadier. 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 featured in formation flight,...
Dates: circa 1940s

Dean E. Christianson World War II and Korean War Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2022-09-01-A
Contents of the Collection The Dean E. Christianson World War II and Korean War Collection consists primarily of textal materials and a few visual materials from Dean's service as a navigator in the U.S. Army Transportion Corps. Included in the collection are correspondence files, personnel documents, military orders, charts, maps, navigator’s logs and flight plans, as well as a small amount of travel ephemera. The materials which range from 1941 to 1958, are organized in three series: Series...
Dates: 1941-1958

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

Charles J. Langmack Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2001-04-05
Abstract

The Charles Langmack Papers contains textual materials, scrapbooks, and photographs concerning the life and military career of Charles Langmack (1907-1999). Langmack was an early Oregon aviator, and this collection equally documents both his civilian and military aviation careers.

Dates: 1920-2002

Dean Mesnard World War II Navigator Chart

 Collection — oversize: folder
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

Robert L. Simons Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 1998-05-05-B
Overview

Robert Lewis Simons was a military and commercial pilot in the mid-twentieth century. The Collection is comprised of materials relating to Simons’ career , including log books, military records, photographs, and films.

Dates: 1925-1972; Majority of material found within 1938-1948

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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World War, 1939-1945 9
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photographic prints 7
logs (records) 5
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clippings (information artifacts) 4
Boeing B-29 Superfortress Family (Model 345) 3
China 3
Flight navigators 3
Korean War, 1950-1953 3
Manila (Philippines) 3
Okinawa Island (Japan) 3
Tokyo (Japan) 3
certificates 3
correspondence 3
military records 3
navigation charts 3
Aids to air navigation 2
Air pilots 2
Air pilots, Military 2
Aircraft accidents 2
Airplanes -- Design and construction 2
Alaska 2
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress Family 2
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California 2
Douglas B-18 Family 2
Douglas DC-2 Family 2
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England 2
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Guam 2
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Hickam Air Force Base (Hawaii) 2
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photocopies 2
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Africa, North 1
Air shows 1
Airlift, Military 1
Airlines 1
Airplane engines 1
Airplane occupants 1
Airplane racing 1
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Airplanes, Military 1
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Aviation ground crews 1
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Boeing B-29 Superfortress 1
Boeing B-47B Stratojet 1
Boeing B-50A 1
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Boeing C-75 Stratoliner (Model 307) 1
Boeing C-97 Stratofreighter Family (Model 367) 1
Boeing Model 247D 1
Boeing Model 307 Stratoliner Family 1
Boeing Model 377 Stratocruiser Family 1
Boeing Model 417 1
Boeing Model 80A 1
Boeing SB-29 Superfortress 1
Boeing XB-15 (Model 294, XBLR-1) 1
Boeing XB-38 1
Boeing Y1B-17 Flying Fortress (Model 299B, YB-17, B-17) 1
Boeing YL-15 Scout 1
Bombing, Aerial 1
Boston (Mass.) 1
Bowlby Sunbeam 1
British Aerospace Jetstream 31 1
Brown Monoplane 1
Bucholz Army Airfield (Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands) 1
Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.) 1
Bush flying 1
Bush pilots 1
Cheju Island (Korea) 1
Chicago (Ill.) 1
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Consolidated PBY Catalina Family 1
Convair (XF-92) XP-92 (Ramjet Fighter Proposal) 1
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Names
United States. Army Air Forces 3
United States. Navy 3
Alison, John R. (John Richardson), 1912-2011 1
Allen, Edmund Turney, 1896-1943 1
Allen, William M., 1900-1985 1
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Ambramson, Daniel, 1932-2012 1
American Fighter Aces Association 1
Anderson, William Y. 1
Antietam (Aircraft carrier) 1
Argentina. Armada 1
Augarten, Rudolph 1
Baird, Robert 1
Balch, Donald L. 1
Barber, Rex T., 1917- 1
Barns, William Frederick, 1920-1995 1
Beall, Wellwood Edmeston, 1906-1978 1
Bechtel, Paul S. 1
Beebe, Marshall Ulrich 1
Blair, William Knox 1
Boeing Company 1
Boeing Company. Wichita Division 1
Bong, Richard Ira, 1920-1945 1
Brackin, Harl V. 1
Brazil. Fôrça Aérea Brasileira 1
Bryan, Donald S. 1
Buck, George T. 1
Callaway, Raymond L. 1
Canada. Royal Canadian Air Force 1
Carl, Marion E., 1915- 1
Carroll, John D. 1
Champion, Henry K. 1
Chandler, George T. 1
Chenoweth, Oscar I. 1
Chick, Louis William, Jr. 1
Christianson, Dean E., 1920-1966 1
Clarke, Walter E. 1
Coats, Robert Charles 1
Collinsworth, Jerry D. 1
Comstock, Harold E. 1
Conger, Jack E. 1
Conger, Paul A. 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
Daniel, William A. "Bill", 1913-1998 1
Davis, Leonard K. 1
Daymond, Gregory A. 1
DeHaven, Robert M., 1922-2008 1
DeLong, Phillip C. 1
Denman, Anthony J. 1
Donaldson, E. M. (Edward Mortlock), 1912-1992 1
Donalson, I. B. Jack 1
Drake, Charles W. 1
Drury, Paul E. 1
Duncan, George C., 1917-1995 1
Dungan, Fred L. 1
Everton, Loren D. 1
Farrell, William 1
Fontana, Paul J. 1
Foss, Joseph J. 1
Franger, Marvin J. 1
Freeman, William B. 1
French, James B. 1
Gailer, Frank L. 1
Garrett AiResearch 1
Garrison, Vermont 1
Great Britain. Royal Air Force 1
Haberman, Roger A. 1
Hadden, Mayo A., Jr. 1
Hamilton Field (Calif.) 1
Hammel, Eric M. 1
Hanks, Eugene R. 1
Harris, Thomas S. 1
Hasek, Ivan S. 1
Hayes, Thomas L., Jr. 1
Heller, Edwin L. 1
Hill, David Lee, 1915-2007 1
Hill, Frank A. 1
Holmes, Besby F. 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
Jones, Curran L. 1
Kirk, George N. 1
Knoll 1
Kunz, Charles M. 1
Lampe, Richard C. 1
Langmack, Charles J. 1
Langmack, David 1
Lanphier, Thomas G., Jr 1
Lawlor, Frank L. 1
Levy, David "Deed" 1
Libby, Fred 1
Lockheed 1
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