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This recording contains excerpts from an oral history interview with fighter ace Horace Q. Waggoner that was conducted at Sangamon State University (now the University of Illinois at Springfield) by student Bruce E. Kreuger in 1986. The excerpts…

Film footage of travel in Paris (France) and London (England) and home movies of various people, likely filmed by James C. Stewart and his friends and family, circa 1947-1949. The first segment is comprised of short clips of street scenes and…

Composite photograph of four images of servicemen at Middle Wallop Airfield, superimposed on a map of Hampshire, England, May and June 1944. The images depict servicemen working on an aircraft engine and other equipment, looking at library materials,…

Composite photograph featuring three images of servicemen at Chalgrove Airfield, superimposed on a map of Oxfordshire, England, April 1944. The images depict a serviceman with a shovel, two servicemen discussing a wall-mounted map, and servicemen…

Aerial photograph of Holland County, England, April 1944.Typed caption: "Holland mapping mission - 6,000 sq. miles in 45 minutes, April - 1944."

Photograph of Glider Regiment servicemen Robert Peacock, Peter Jones, and Earl H. M. Phillips, Cambridge, England, 1946.Inscription on verso: "At Cambridge. 1946. 22 E.F.T.S. Robert Peacock and Peter Jones and Earl Phillips."Stamped on verso: "9 Mar…

Photograph of a serviceman in the cockpit of an Airspeed Horsa Mk.I (AS.51) glider, August 1946. Image was taken at or near RAF Elsham Wolds (England).Typed on verso: "Elsham Wolds. Aug. 1946."

Photograph of an Airspeed Horsa Mk.I (AS.51) glider in flight, August 1946. Image was taken at or near RAF Elsham Wolds (England).Inscription on verso: "21 H.G.C.U. Elsham Wolds. August 1946."

Photograph of an Airspeed Horsa Mk.I (AS.51) glider in flight, August 1946. Image was taken at or near RAF Elsham Wolds (England).Inscription on verso: "21 H.G.C.U. Elsham Wolds. August 1946."

Photograph of an unidentified aircraft taking off, RAF Elsham Wolds (England), August 1946. An Airspeed Horsa Mk.I (AS.51) glider is visible nearby. Inscription on verso: "21 H.G.C.U. Elsham Wolds. August 1946."