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Brooks Field flyers give Waco some real thrills [Clipping]
Newspaper clipping, "Brooks Field flyers give Waco some real thrills," from the San Antonio Express, circa 1919-1920s. Reports on an airshow in Waco, Texas put on by six pilots from Brooks Field, including Jules Verne Hyde. Includes a photograph of…

Special Orders No. 16 [Assigns servicemen to Flying Department, honorably discharges Jules V. Hyde]
Special Orders No. 16, Headquarters Air Service Flying School, Kelly Field (Texas), January 16, 1919. Page one assigns 2nd Lieutenants Jules V. Hyde and Robert N. Williams to duty with the Flying Department. Page two notes that 2nd Lieutenant Hyde is…

[Memorandum to Jules Verne (J. V.) Hyde from First Lieutenant Rene R. Studler, January 2, 1919]
Memorandum to Jules Verne (J. V.) Hyde from First Lieutenant Rene R. Studler, January 2, 1919. Declares that Second Lieutenants Skoning, Williams, and Hyde will act as Final Testers for the special instructions being given to student officers who…

[Harley C. Hyde and Jules Verne Hyde seated in cockpits of Curtiss JN-4 Jenny]
Photograph of Harley C. Hyde and Jules Verne Hyde seated in the cockpits of a Curtiss JN-4 Jenny aircraft (partial fuselage number [?]53), likely at Taylor, Texas, January 1919. Inscription on album page: "Our week-end visit to Taylor, Texas, Jan.…

Kansas Cityan tells of fall in airplane [Clipping]
Newspaper clipping, "Kansas Cityan tells of fall in airplane," from an unidentified newspaper, circa 1918-1919. Gives Lieutenant Jules Verne Hyde's first-hand account of an airplane crash at Brooks Field that resulted in the death of one of his…

Statement of the causes which led to the accident which caused the death of Lieutenant L. B. Evans
Military report by Jules Verne (J. V.) Hyde titled "Statement of the causes which led to the accident which caused the death of Lieutenant L. B. Evans," circa 1918-1919. Describes the events which led to an airplane crash. One typed page.

[Photograph album from the J. V. and Harley Hyde Collection, 1918-1919]
Photograph album from the J. V. and Harley Hyde Collection, 1918-1919. Album contains 38 black-and-white photographs, comprised of snapshots and portraits with hand-drawn line art on the album pages. Images feature the Hyde brothers, aircraft, plane…

[Application for Examination for Appointment in Regular Army filled out by Jules Verne (J. V.) Hyde, December 17, 1918]
Application for Examination for Appointment in Regular Army filled out by Jules Verne (J. V.) Hyde for enlistment in Air Service, December 17, 1918. One typed page.

Special Orders No. 227 [Assigns officers to participate in regular and frequent aerial flights]
Special Orders No. 227, Air Service Flying School (Brooks Field, Texas), October 10, 1918. Assigns several officers, including 2nd Lieutenant Jules Verne (J. V.) Hyde, to participate in regular and frequent aerial flights. One typed page.

Special Orders No. 221 [Instructs officers to report for temporary duty]
Special Orders No. 221, Air Service Flying School (Brooks Field, Texas), October 4, 1918. Instructs a few officers, including 2nd Lieutenant Jules Verne (J. V.) Hyde, to report for temporary duty to Dallas, Texas for the purpose of flying airplanes…
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