Items from Box One, Folder 4 of the Lewis Paul Bowers World War II Collection, circa 1943-1945. Folder contains assorted military documents related to Bowers' service with the U.S. Army Air Forces, including payroll and financial records, orders,…
Items from Box One, Folder 5 of the Lewis Paul Bowers World War II Collection, circa 1943-1945. Folder contains assorted military documents related to Bowers' service with the U.S. Army Air Forces, such as an officers' club membership card,…
Items from Box One, Folder 6 of the Lewis Paul Bowers World War II Collection, circa 1943-1945. Folder contains assorted military documents related to Bowers' service with the U.S. Army Air Forces, including immunization and health records,…
Items from Box One, Folder 11 of the Lewis Paul Bowers World War II Collection, January 1944 to December 1944. Folder contains 22 letters written by Bowers to family members during his military service. Most of the letters are addressed to his…
Photographic group portrait of a U.S. Army Air Forces flight crew, including Lewis Paul Bowers, posing with the tail gun of a Consolidated B-24 Liberator aircraft, circa 1944. The crew is partially identified in the verso inscription, though many of…
Photograph of the landing gear of a Consolidated B-24 Liberator during a takeoff or landing, circa 1944.
Inscription on verso: "1944. B-24 gear. Paul Bowers. 13th AAF."
Photograph of a U.S. Army Air Forces flight crew, including Lewis Paul Bowers (standing, far left), with a Consolidated B-24 Liberator aircraft, circa January 1944. The crew is identified in the verso inscription.
Inscription on verso: "Left to right…
Photographic group portrait of U.S. Army Air Forces servicemen posing on a Consolidated B-24 Liberator aircraft, circa 1944-1945. Many of the men are waving or giving the middle finger.
Photograph of a serviceman working on the engine of "Rude Nude," a Consolidated B-24 Liberator aircraft, at a Pacific Island airfield, circa 1944-1945. The aircraft's nose art depicts a naked or partially naked woman.
Inscription on verso: "Paul…