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Sopwith Camel Family

 Subject

Staff Only
Subject Source: Nasm
Scope Note: Aircraft

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

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
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Anonymous Manuscripts on World War I Aircraft

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 2025-00-00-44
Content Description The Anonymous Manuscripts on World War I Aircraft is a small collection consisting of two typed manuscripts titled "Allied World War I Aircraft Photographs and Text" and "German and Austrian World War I Aircraft Photographs and Text." Both bound volumes consist of typewritten descriptions and histories of World War I-era aircraft by an unidentified author with photographs tipped in. Both volumes are undated but likely date to the 1940s.The first volume, "Allied World War I...
Dates: undated, circa 1940s
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Lionel Cherry Gilmour World War I Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2019-01-30
Abstract

The collection is comprised of a small photograph album, loose photographs, a prisoner of war diary, and assorted research documents pertaining to the World War I service and prisoner of war (POW) experience of Lieutenant Lionel Cherry Gilmour (1891-1973), pilot of the Royal Air Force (RAF) and its predecessor, the Royal Flying Corps (RFC).

Dates: 1915-2008; Majority of material found within 1968-2008
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Nancy Harkness Collection of World War I Photograph Albums

 Collection
Identifier: 2014-09-18
Abstract

Three albums of World War I photographs depicting various squadrons and corps of the United States Air Service stationed along the French-German border during and after the war.

Dates: circa 1914-1919
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Harold A. McGinnis Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2004-06-08
Abstract

Harold A. McGinnis (1893-1986) served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps, Aviation Section as a pilot during World War I and remained in the military until his retirement in 1948. The collection contains pilot log books relating to World War I and photographs relating to World War I and pre-World War II era military aircraft.

Dates: 1914-1930s
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Eric G. Peter Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2010-10-18
Abstract

The collection consists of photographs, military personnel documents, and wartime ephemera related to the Royal Air Force career of Eric G. Peter during and after World War I.

Dates: circa 1912-1962; Majority of material found within 1918-1919
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Milton W. Sherman Aviation Cartoon Collection

 Collection — Box Assorted Newspaper clippings box 1, oversize: folder 1
Identifier: 2010-03-20
Contents of the Collection The Milton W. Sherman Aviation Cartoon Collection contains thirty-nine aviation cartoons and comic strips published in 1935-1936 that depict notable aviators and aircraft of the 1920s-1930s. Nearly all of the cartoons and comics are from the "Hall of Fame of the Air" series. Written by aviator Eddie Rickenbacker and drawn by aviator and artist Clayton Knight, each strip focuses on a notable aviator and briefly sketches a highlight of their career. Each strip is in color and...
Dates: 1935-1936, undated
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Herman J. Sommerhauser World War I Photograph Album

 Collection
Identifier: 1989-12-12
Abstract

The collection contains a photograph album from the World War I career of Herman J. Sommerhauser (1895-1949), who may have served with the U.S. Army Air Service, 650th Aero Squadron in France.

Dates: 1918-1919
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

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