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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:

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Frank Maxwell Andrews Papers

Identifier: MSS11015
Abstract

Air force officer. Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, articles, military service and flight records, reports, financial records, and newspaper clippings relating chiefly to Andrews's career in the military and the organization and administration of the air arm of the War Department and operations of the Caribbean Defense Command at the beginning of World War II.

Dates 1920-1943; Majority of material found within ( 1935-1942)
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John J. Ballentine Papers

Identifier: MSS78663
Abstract

United States Navy officer and air pilot. Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, logbooks, military records, biographical material, scrapbooks, clippings, photographs, and other papers relating primarily to Ballentine's naval career after 1920.

Dates 1913-1973; Majority of material found within ( 1942-1954)
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Benjamin S. Custer Papers

Identifier: MSS86171
Abstract

United States Navy officer and air pilot. Correspondence, military records, photographs, scrapbooks, writings, clippings, and other papers relating primarily to Custer's naval career after 1922, naval aircraft carriers and seaplane tenders during World War II, and the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corp at Princeton University during the 1950s.

Dates 1912-2000; Majority of material found within 1920-1958
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James Harold Doolittle Papers

Identifier: MSS18754
Abstract

U.S. Air Force officer and U.S. Army officer. Correspondence, speeches, writings, reports, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, awards, maps, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to Doolittle's service in the U.S. Air Force.

Dates 1919-1990; Majority of material found within ( 1940-1960)
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Fox Movietone newsreel collection - World War II paper records

Identifier: MBRSMI007001
Abstract Cameramen’s dope sheets (detailed notes of stories filmed), continuity sheets (synopses of newsreels distributed to theaters), and turnovers (one sentence descriptions of each story filmed) from this major pioneer in the newsreel industry. Collection also contains other paper materials including telegrams, speeches, photographs, programs, and memoranda that provide details of the newsreels created by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. Although the entire Fox Movietone newsreel...
Dates 1922-1946; Majority of material found within ( 1941-1946)
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Ernest Joseph King Papers

Identifier: MSS38687
Abstract

Naval officer. Official and general correspondence, orders to duty, speech, article, and book file, memoranda, notes, printed material, photographs, and other papers relating primarily to King's activities as commander in chief of the United States Fleet and chief of naval operations during World War II.

Dates 1908-1991; Majority of material found within 1936-1952
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Carl Conrad Loth Papers

Identifier: MSS86244
Abstract

United States Army officer and aviator. Correspondence, newsletters, photographs, certificates, and scrapbooks related primarily to Loth's service as a driver in the American Volunteer Motor-Ambulance Corps and as an aviator and officer in the United States Army during World War I and World War II.

Dates 1896-1967; Majority of material found within ( 1917-1944)
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Paul H. Nitze Papers

Identifier: MSS80281
Abstract

Statesman, diplomat, and entrepreneur. Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, speeches, writings, appointment books, business files, name and subject files, and other papers chiefly relating to Nitze's role in United States foreign and national security policy in the last half of the twentieth century.

Dates 1922-1998; Majority of material found within 1946-1996
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Noel Francis Parrish Papers

Identifier: MSS62154
Abstract

Air force general and university professor. Correspondence, speeches and writings, academic and military files, family papers, photographs and slides, and other papers documenting Parrish's military and academic careers, including as commander of Tuskegee Army Air Field (Ala.) where he was responsible for training the Army Air Force's first African American pilots during World War II.

Dates 1894-1987; Majority of material found within 1930-1987
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Henry F. Pringle Papers

Identifier: MSS36921
Abstract

Journalist, historian, and government official. Personal and official correspondence, subject files consisting of correspondence, reports, minutes, lists, research data, and print and near-print material, and other papers relating principally to Pringle's biography of William H. Taft and to his work in the Office of Facts and Figures (later the Office of War Information).

Dates 1932-1957; Majority of material found within 1939-1946
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Elwood R. Quesada Papers

Identifier: MSS37135
Abstract

Air force officer and public official. Correspondence, memoranda, speeches and statements, reports, drawings, press releases, and other material pertaining primarily to Quesada's career as a United States Air Force officer and as director of the Federal Aviation Administration.

Dates 1927-1960
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Louis N. Ridenour Papers

Identifier: MSS83966
Abstract

Physicist and author. Correspondence, journals, reports, writings, printed matter, photographs, and other items relating to science policy issues concerning nuclear energy and computer technology as well as Ridenour's contribution to the development and application of radar technology during World War II.

Dates 1917-1960; Majority of material found within ( 1945-1959)
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Jerome P. Shuchter collection, 1943-1956 : Veterans History Project (U.S.)

Identifier: AFC 2001/001/120991
Abstract

Jerome Shuchter served as a bomber aircraft crewmember in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II, participating in the air offensive against Japan. Collection includes correspondence, periodicals, photographs, and an artifact relating to his service.

Dates 1943-1956; Majority of material found within 1943-1945
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John H. Towers Papers

Identifier: MSS81197
Abstract

United States Navy officer and early naval aviator. Diaries, naval and personal correspondence, memoranda, orders for duty, aviation logs, speeches and writings, biographical notebooks and sketches, photographs, reports, scrapbooks, blueprints, charts, and newspaper clippings documenting Towers's naval career and his participation in naval aviation from its inception in 1911 to World War II and after.

Dates 1830-1989; Majority of material found within 1906-1955
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William H. Tunner and Margaret Ann Hamilton Tunner Papers

Identifier: MSS86417
Abstract William H. Tunner, United States Air Force officer, and Margaret Ann Hamilton Tunner, World War II Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) pilot. Correspondence, reports, military records, biographical materials, writings, photographs, and photograph albums relating primarily to William H. Tunner's career in the United States Air Force. Correspondence, military records, biographical materials, photographs, and scrapbooks concerning Margaret Ann Hamilton Tunner's private life as well as her...
Dates 1900-2006; Majority of material found within 1940-1980
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Donald Wilson Papers

Identifier: MSS45922
Abstract

U.S. Army and Air Force officer. Diaries, journals, correspondence, speeches, lectures, flight records, maps and other items relating to Wilson’s personal life and military career. Diaries include accounts of the Iwo Jima and other South Pacific campaigns during World War II.

Dates 1910-1979