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Letter to Elvin L. Lindsay from Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher, U.S. Navy, circa 1944-1945. Presents Lindsay with the Silver Star "for distinguishing himself comspicuously [conspicuously] by gallantry and intrepidity in action while serving as a pilot…

Letter to Elvin L. Lindsay from the Bureau of Naval Personnel, December 6, 1946. Forwards permanent citation for Lindsay's Navy Cross. One typed page.Item from a disassembled scrapbook documenting the U.S. Navy career of Elvin L. Lindsay, circa…

Letter to Elvin L. Lindsay from Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher, U.S. Navy, circa 1944-1945. Presents Lindsay with the Navy Cross "for distinguishing himself by extraordinary heroism in operations against the enemy while leading carried based fighter…

Letter to Elvin L. Lindsay from James Forrestal, Secretary of the Navy, circa 1944-1945. Presents Lindsay with the Navy Cross for "extraordinary heroism as Flight Leader in Fighting Squadron Ninteen, attached to the U.S.S. Lexington, in action…

Aviator's flight log book for Elvin L. Lindsay, circa 1943-1945. 166 pages and three loose pages with handwritten notes. Also includes a newspaper clipping, "To bolster fleet," from an Idaho newspaper, circa 1944-1945. Clipping includes a captioned…

Aviator's flight log book for Elvin L. Lindsay, circa 1941-1942. 151 pages.

Student pilot log book (advanced training) for Elvin L. Lindsay, circa 1940. Notes that Lindsay's advanced fight instruction began on August 6, 1940 at Boise Municipal Airport. 60 pages.

Student pilot log book for Elvin L. Lindsay, circa 1939-1941. Notes that Lindsay's flight instruction began on November 27, 1939 at Pullman-Moscow Airport. 84 pages.

Oblique aerial photograph of an unidentified facility, Palau, July 26, 1944 Inscription: "110. CV16-2264; 7-26-44; 1730(-10); K17-12"; Alt-Var; Palau; Confidential."

Oblique aerial photograph of a damaged building, Palau, July 26, 1944 Inscription: "150. CV16-2261; 7-26-44; 1445(-10); F56-20"; Alt-Var; Palau; Conf."