World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Pacific Area
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113869
Found in 33 Collections and/or Records:
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
Olson, Leroy - 2014-04-30, 2014
Item
Summary
[From transcript] Leroy "Lee" Olson discusses growing up in a large family on a farm in Montana and his first experiences with airplanes, including his father's aviation history in the early 1930s. He explains his education and how he became a Naval aviator, including primary flight training on aircraft with skis for landing gear, and his experience on the aircraft carriers Wolverine, Ranger, and USS Essex. He recalls his experience as part of the "Red Dippers" and his flights in the Pacific...
Dates:
2014