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ITEM 6 Photograph of British planes in a Spanish hangar, August, 1936.
ITEM 7 Photograph of the R.A.F. “In Action Over the Norwegian Coast.”
ITEM 8 Photograph of “A flotilla of British destroyers.”
ITEM 9 Photograph of bombs dropping over the “Aerodrome at Stavangar,” Norway .
ITEM 10 Photograph of a Dornier flying boat hit by a Hudson Reconnaissance aircraft.
ITEM 11 Letter from the l’Aérophile (draft?) notifying the recipient that subscription fees had increased due to poor economic conditions, 1930.
ITEM 12 Aerial view taken from “The Blenheim” after dropping two bombs on an enemy ship.
ITEM 13 Photograph of the “Supermarine Spitfire.”
ITEM 14 Photograph of the R.A.F. “In Action” over the Norwegian Coast, 1940.
ITEM 15 Five photographs of British women aviators.
ENVELOPE 9 Photos from the War, 1939-1940.
ITEM 1 Two photographs of a Dornier No. 17 and a Messerschmitt.
ITEM 2 Group photograph taken outside the Aéro Club De France Soldier’s Home (“Foyer Du Soldat”), French Red Cross (“Croix Rouge Française”).
ITEM 3 Aerial surveillance photo over Drieborn, Germany showing a hangar under construction, barracks, infantry bunkers, and an air-defense shelter.
ITEM 4 Photograph of a French reconnaissance aircraft.
ITEM 5 Photograph of a German bomber shot-down in France.
ITEM 6 R.A.F. pilots before departing for battle.
ITEM 7 Eleven photographs of American bomber pilots preparing for battle.
ITEM 8 Seventeen photographs of British pilots preparing for battle, including pictures of the German aircraft “Heinkel 111” after it was shot down, and of M. Laurent Eynac (minister of the air).
ITEM 9 Two photographs of military planes landing and taking off at the Ecole de Pilotage en France.
ITEM 10 Photograph of a reconnaissance plane.
ITEM 11 Two photographs of a pilot preparing to take off.
ITEM 12 Photograph of a newly-produced bomber making its first flight.
ITEM 13 Photograph of a test flight before delivering the bomber to the air force.
ITEM 14 Photographs of mechanics working on an aircraft.
ITEM 15 Photograph of “d’avions modernes” at the Ecole Technique De L’Air.”
ITEM 16 Photograph of an inflating French observation spherical balloon.
ITEM 17 Photograph “le décompte des tours de piste” (the counting of laps) at the Ecole de Pilotage en France.
ITEM 18 Two photographs of Allied aircraft patrolling the French front.
ITEM 19 Photograph of a Polish soldier receiving an award before leaving for the front.
ITEM 20 Five photographs of a subterranean bunker or defense shelter.
ITEM 21 Photograph of Allied aircraft patrolling the French front.
ITEM 22 Photograph of bombers under construction.
ITEM 23 Photograph of students taking a class at the Ecole de Technique de L’Air in wireless telegraphy.
ITEM 24 Photograph of the aircraft available to students at the Ecole Technique de L’Air.
ITEM 25 Photograph of one of the lab rooms in the Ecole Technique de L’Air.
ITEM 26 Three photographs of an observations dirigible departing for the French front.
ITEM 27 Two photographs of an observations balloon leaving for the French front.
ITEM 28 Photograph of General Sikorski (Poland), hoisting the Polish flag during a ceremony for troops leaving for the front.
ITEM 29 Photograph of a French Reconnaissance plane, 1940.
ITEM 30 Two unidentified photographs.
ITEM 31 Photograph “Une parie de la chaine de finition des empennages” (part of the finishing line tail).
ITEM 32 Photograph “Inlassablement l'Oeuvre du ministere de l'Air.”
ITEM 33 Photograph taken inside an airplane hangar.
ITEM 34 Photograph of a woman placing the cover over an airplane engine.
ITEM 35 Photograph of a reception at the Polish Embassy to after signing an agreement “relatif à la reconstitution des Forces Aériennes Polonaises en France.”
ITEM 36 Photograph of M. Guy L. Chambre, Air Minister.
ITEM 37 Photograph of Guy L. Chambre and General Sikorski signing and agreement “relatif à la reconstitution en France des Forces Aériennes Polonaises.”
ITEM 38 Group photograph with Guy L. Chambre and General Sikorski.
ITEM 39 Photograph of a group of French fighters.
ITEM 40 Photograph of two women fastening the last rivet on a completed aircraft.
ITEM 41 Photograph of a woman working to put the finishing touches on a completed aircraft.
ITEM 42 Two photographs of Allied Bombers.
ITEM 43 Photograph of the Inauguration of the Georges Guynemer Center of the Aero Club de France.
ITEM 44 Aerial photograph of Limburg, Germany.
ITEM 45 Aerial photograph of Munster.
ITEM 46 Aerial photograph of Wittlich-Wengerohr, Germany.
ITEM 47 Photograph of a ceremony at the Ecole Technique De L’Air.
ITEM 48 Photograph of two soldiers attaching a bomb to the wing of an airplane.
ITEM 49 Two attached photographs of an Air Gunner’s badge and of the first supplies sent to English prisoners of war in Germany. The second picture shows two women holding “supplies of food and clothes ... prepared by the British Red Cross Society at St. James’ Palace (London) ...”
ITEM 50 Three page report “Les Engagements Dans L’Armee De L’Air” (Commitments of the Air Force).
ENVELOPE 10 Torpedo and Bomb Racks.
ITEM 1 Four photographs of an Astra Wright biplane carrying two torpedoes in Villacoublay, 1912.
ITEM 2 Clipping from a German magazine showing a test bombing of targets (made to look like a ship) in a field in Blackpool.
ENVELOPE 11 Turkish-Italian War.
ITEM 1 Ten photographs from the Turkish-Italian War, including pictures of planes in flight on the coast of Tripoli, a Nieuport monoplane, a biplane accident, a Bleriot monoplane, a Farman biplane being unloaded from a crate, Italian soldiers observing an Italian reconnaissance plane, and an inflating dirigible.
ENVELOPE 12 Photographs from WWII (Various Countries).
ITEM 1 Two aerial views of Stalingrad, ablaze after a Luftwaffe bombing.
ITEM 2 Aerial views taken by the Luftwaffe from high altitudes of Stalingrad, an unspecified area in Ukraine, and Sevastopol, Russia.
ENVELOPE 13 Photographs: WWI.
ITEM 1 Group photograph taken at Quentin Roosevelt’s grave.
ITEM 2 Photograph of soldiers in front of the “stone dugout of Montsec,” France.
ITEM 3 Photograph of a “dummy tanks built by the Germans” in St. Mihiel to draw Allied fire.
ITEM 4 Photograph of Major General Clarence Edwards, commander of the 26th Division, during the Battle of Chateau Thierry.
ITEM 5 Photograph of American soldiers “taking pot shots” at German soldiers.
ITEM 6 Photograph of Marshall Joffre and General Pershing reviewing the first Americans troops in Paris.
ITEM 7 Photograph of General Pershing leading American troops as they unload from a ship.
ITEM 8 Photograph of Americans troops building a bridge across the Marne, July, 1918.
ITEM 9 Photograph of General Pershing.
ITEM 10 Photograph of the basket of an observation balloon in Belleau Wood.
ITEM 11 Photograph of survivors from a marine battalion after the Battle of Belleau Wood.
ITEM 12 Photograph of a section of German trench captured by the 90th Division, September 12, 1918.
ITEM 13 Photograph of prisoners captured by Americans at Cantigny, May 28, 1918.
ITEM 14 Photograph of a German Gotha bomber “captured intact” and used by French aviators. The bombs on the aircraft have been hand-colored.
ITEM 15 Photograph of Americans soldiers singing while playing an organ in a shelled-out church during the “advance from the Marne,”, 1918.
ITEM 16 Two photographs of Chateau Nesles, used by the Germans as a machine-gun nest and captured by the Americans, August 2, 1918.
ITEM 17 Photograph of skulls of unburied German soldiers.
ITEM 18 Photograph of a 45 foot cannon destroyed by German troops to prevent its capture.
ITEM 19 Photograph of American soldiers on “Big Bertha.”
ITEM 20 Fifty nine unidentified photographs of soldiers on trains, a military parade, a tank climbing over trenches, American tanks and ships, shelled buildings, soldiers in trenches, soldiers marching, and aerial views of European cities.
ENVELOPE 14 Krupp Plant Destroyed by Allied Bombing.
ITEM 1 Two aerial views of the Krupp arms works after it was destroyed by Allied bombing, 1945.
BOX 71 Drawings: "Aviation made popular." 1940.
ENVELOPE 1 Aviation Made Popular “Piloting.”
ENVELOPE 2 Aviation Made Popular #1, May and June 1941.
ENVELOPE 3 Aviation Made Popular #2, May and June 1941.
ENVELOPE 4 Aviation Made Popular #3, May and June 1941.
ENVELOPE 5 Aviation Made Popular #4, June to November 1940.
ENVELOPE 6 Aviation Made Popular #5, December 1940 to February 1941.
BOX 72 Drawings: "Aviation made popular." 1940-1944.
ENVELOPE 1 Aviation Made Popular #6, March and April 1941.
ENVELOPE 2 Aviation Made Popular #7, March and April 1941.
ENVELOPE 3 Aviation Made Popular #8, 1941.
ENVELOPE 4 Aviation Made Popular #9, 1942.
ENVELOPE 5 Aviation Made Popular #10, 1943.
ENVELOPE 6 Aviation Made Popular #11, 1944.
BOX 73 Graphs, charts, diagrams of equipment.
ENVELOPE 1 Diagrams and Chart: Technique-Study on Light-Duty Metal.
ENVELOPE 2 Chart: Plastic and Transparent Materials.
ENVELOPE 3 Chart Displaying Height of Aircrafts.
ENVELOPE 4 Miscellaneous Graphs and Charts.
ENVELOPE 5 Diagrams from Before the War.
ENVELOPE 6 Altitude Graphs.
ENVELOPE 7 Diagrams and Publications: Air Equipment #2 (France).
ENVELOPE 8 Historic Illustrations.
BOX 74 Misc. Apparatus: radiocompass, photography, stroboscopy, etc.
ENVELOPE 1 Radio Compass.
ENVELOPE 2 Photographie and Stroboscopie (Various Articles).
ENVELOPE 3 Miscellaneous Apparatus.
ENVELOPE 4 Miscellaneous Apparatus #2.
ENVELOPE 5 Miscellaneous Apparatus #3.
ENVELOPE 6 Miscellaneous Apparatus #4.
ENVELOPE 7 Miscellaneous Apparatus #5.
ENVELOPE 8 Miscellaneous Apparatus #6.
ENVELOPE 9 Miscellaneous Balloon Apparatus.
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