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...

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Colonel Merle Coons (1921-1997) was a United States Air Force fighter pilot, earning ace status during World War II. The collection is a subset of the American Fighter Aces Collection and includes primarily textual materials, such as military orders and records, flight records and a log book, and a scrapbook, as well as a photograph album and a small amount of loose photographs.

Contents of the Collection The Al Osterud Northwest Airlines Collection holds textual and audiovisual materials that pertain to Osterud's career of more than two decades with Northwest Airlines (NWA). The collection sheds light on the administrative operations of the airline from the 1960s-1980s. The materials have not been fully processed, but have been roughly grouped by type. The bulk of the materials are textual in nature. They include Osterud's office files (Boxes 1-3), materials from various NWA...