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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

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

Lewis Paul Bowers World War II Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2019-08-09
Contents of the Collection The Lewis Paul Bowers World War II Collection is comprised of photographs and various textual materials, including military records, orrders, certificates, and correspondence, primarily related to the World War II experience of Lewis Paul Bowers, a flight navigator on a Consolidated B-24 Liberator ("Rude Nude") of the 307th Bombardment Group, 13th Air Force. There are also some items related to post-war activities as well as personal and family materials. The bulk of the collection...
Dates: 1932-2012; Majority of material found within 1942-1946

James O. Brewer World War II Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2012-06-04
Contents of the Collection The James O. Brewer World War II Collection documents Brewer’s service as a pilot in the Pacific Theater during World War II. The collection consists of both photographic and textual material, primarily dating from 1942-1949.Photographs are in color and black-and-white and appear to show military personnel, reunions, and personal candids, though most of the photographs are not dated or annotated. A significant number of photographs were taken in Australia and prominently feature...
Dates: 1943-1997

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

Thomas Cooper World War II Photograph Collection

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2009-08-13-A
Contents of the Collection The Thomas Cooper World War II Photograph Collection is comprised of 42 photographs mostly taken by Paul A. Payne, with whom Thomas Cooper served in United States Marine Corps in the Pacific theater of World War II. The photographs were taken on Saipan and Tinian in the Mariana Islands between 1944 and 1945. They feature several American aircraft, such as a Northrop P-61, a Douglas C-47, a Consolidated B-24 Liberator, and several Boeing B-29s. Many of the B-29 photographs were taken on...
Dates: Circa 1943-1946

William D. Dunham World War II Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2004-05-10
Contents of the Collection This small collection is comprised of four photographs and one map related to the World War II military service of William D. Dunham, circa 1939-1945. Each of the 4x5" photographs is black-and-white and depicts Dunham with an airplane. In three of the photographs, other military personnel are also in the image. Only one of these images includes a caption on the reverse; it depicts Dunham with three other men in front of a partially obscured Republic P-47D Thunderbolt "Bonnie". The caption...
Dates: circa 1939-1945

Robert F. Hardin World War II Japanese War Trials Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2020-03-04
Overview

Robert Franklin Hardin served in the U.S. Army as a Tech 5 during World War II. His collection consists of 158 black-and-white photographs providing detailed visual documentation of the proceedings of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East which took place in Tokyo, Japan in 1946-1948.

Dates: circa 1946-1948

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

Lester Kickland World War II Photographs

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2015-06-15
Contents of the Collection This small collection is comprised of 59 photographs taken by and featuring Lester Jay Kickland while he was stationed in the Pacific theater during World War II where he helped to build island airfields. The photographs were primarily taken between April and September of 1945 at locations on Iejima (formerly Ie Shima), but may also include images from Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Photographs feature nose art on various types of American aircraft, a coral runway on Iejima as well as other...
Dates: circa 1940s

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Douglas C-47 Skytrain Family 3
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Iwo Jima, Battle of, Japan, 1945 3
North American P-51 Mustang Family 3
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Prisoners of war 3
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diplomas 2
identity cards 2
lithographs 2
memorandums 2
navigation charts 2
newsletters 2
newspapers 2
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Aerial reconnaissance 1
Agat (Guam) 1
Aichi B7A Ryusei (Shooting Star) Grace (Navy Exp. 16-Shi Carrier Attack Bomber) 1
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Airdrop 1
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Airplanes -- Flight testing 1
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Atomic bomb 1
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United States. Navy 11
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United States. Air Force 7
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Rosenthal, Joe, 1911-2006 2
United States. Air Force. Air Force, 14th 2
United States. Army Air Forces. Air Force, 5th 2
United States. Army. Forces in China-Burma-India Theater 2
United States. Marine Fighter Squadron, 214th 2
Allen, Edmund Turney, 1896-1943 1
Allen, William M., 1900-1985 1
American Airlines 1
Antietam (Aircraft carrier) 1
Argentina. Armada 1
Army Air Forces Navigation School (San Marcos Army Air Field, Tex.) 1
Ball, Elmer Allison, 1923-1990 1
Beall, Wellwood Edmeston, 1906-1978 1
Bellevue College (Bellevue, Wash.) 1
Boeing Company 1
Boeing Company. Wichita Division 1
Bolt, John F. 1
Bong, Richard Ira, 1920-1945 1
Bowers, Barry Austin, 1943-2017 1
Bowers, Claradee 1
Bowers, Harold E., 1918-1942 1
Bowers, Lewis Paul, 1922- 1
Bowers, Mary C. (Weidner), 1922-2010 1
Bowers, Ora E. 1
Boyington, Gregory, 1912-1988 1
Brackin, Harl V. 1
Brazil. Fôrça Aérea Brasileira 1
Brewer, James Olin, 1917-1996 1
Brewer, Randell J., 1946-2018 1
Byrd, Richard Evelyn, 1888-1957 1
California. National Guard 1
Canada. Royal Canadian Air Force 1
Carroll, John D. 1
Chenango (Ship) 1
Chennault, Claire Lee, 1893-1958 1
Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975 1
Chiang, May-ling Soong, 1897-2003 1
Cooper, Thomas, 1924- 1
Cuba. Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias 1
Dunham, William D. (William Douglas), 1920-1990 1
Essex (Aircraft carrier) 1
Gililland, George A. 1
Grinnell, Roy, 1933-2019 1
Hamilton Field (Calif.) 1
Hardin, Robert F., 1926-1965 1
Hilderman, Bernell, 1920-1986 1
International Military Tribunal for the Far East 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
Kickland, Lester Jay, 1921-2011 1
Klotz, James Ambrose, 1923-2014 1
Knoll 1
Leach, John Edward, 1923-2015 1
Leigh, Frank C., 1920-1986 1
Levy, David "Deed" 1
Lexington (Aircraft carrier : 1943-1991) 1
Lindsay, Elvin Lester 1
Losch, Fred 1
Lyall, Ralph H., 1919- 1
MacArthur, Douglas, 1880-1964 1
Madden, Paul J., 1920-2004 1
McCampbell, David, 1910-1996 1
Mesnard, Dean 1
Michaud, Desiree "Jerry" Clifford, 1924-1982 1
Michaud, Thelma Irene (McGraw), 1920-1996 1
Missouri (Battleship : BB-63) 1
Moore Field (Tex.) 1
Mukden (Prisoner of war camp) 1
Nachi (Cruiser) 1
Nimitz, Chester W. (Chester William), 1885-1966 1
Olson, Leroy O., 1921- 1
Orthman, William G., 1911-1990 1
Payne, Paul A. 1
Prothero, Donald K., 1924-2001 1
Pyle, Ernie, 1900-1945 1
Quiet Birdmen 1
Schaefer, Julius E. 1
Schafer, John 1
Schuster, Arnold L. 1
Shamshuipo (Concentration camp) 1
Sheppard Field (Tex.) 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
Taylor, James H., Jr. 1
Taylor, Robert 1
Thorne, Henry G. (Henry Garfield), 1913- 1
Tibbets, Paul W. (Paul Warfield), 1915-2007 1
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