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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

Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Russell W. Whitcomb World War II Naval Aviation Collection

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: 2025-04-15

Content Description The Russell W. Whitcomb World War II Naval Aviation Collection is a small collection consisting primarily of textual materials documenting the military service of Russell W. Whitcomb during the second world war. There is also one photographs present.Two logbooks and a typed copy of a diary document and describe Whitcomb's service in the U.S. Navy as an ordnanceman. The logbooks primarily span April 1945 through January 1946, but a few flights from 1948 and 1951 are also listed....

Dates: circa 1920s, 1943-1952

Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

O. Keith Williams VMF-214 "Black Sheep Squadron" Photographs

Collection — Box: Assorted Oversize Photo Box 3, oversize: folder 1

Identifier: 2002-04-18

Overview

Photographs showing members of the “Black Sheep Squadron” while they were stationed in the South Pacific during World War II.

Dates: 1943

Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Fred Woods World War II Collection

Collection

Identifier: 2012-08-22

Contents of the Collection The Fred Woods World War II Collection is comprised of photographic prints, negatives, a photograph album, and a small number of documents that relate to the World War II experience of United States Navy pilot Fred Woods. The collection has been arranged into two series, visual materials and textual materials. Visual materials, which are the bulk of the collection, include 26 loose black-and-white photographic prints and 27 negatives. Sizes vary from 3x5" to 8x10" and...

Dates: 1942-circa 1945

Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

World War II Pacific Theater Photographs

Collection

Identifier: 2018-00-00-48

Contents of the Collection The World War II Pacific Theater Photographs contains 227 black-and-white prints and 18 negatives taken by United States Army and Navy photographers documenting U.S. military activities in the Pacific Theater in 1945. The images seem to be military publicity shots and the majority of the photographs appear to have been taken in the Marianas Islands.Due to the relatively small size of the collection, materials were grouped by subject and sorted alphabetically. The bulk of the...

Dates: 1944-1946

Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

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

Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

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Ralph Wandrey Fighter Ace Collection

Russell W. Whitcomb World War II Naval Aviation Collection

O. Keith Williams VMF-214 "Black Sheep Squadron" Photographs

Fred Woods World War II Collection

World War II Pacific Theater Photographs

Harold W. Zipp Collection

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