Merle M. Coons Fighter Ace Collection

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Identifier2002-02-13-1136Description

The Merle M. Coons Fighter Ace Collection is a subset of the American Fighter Aces Collection and relates to the 1942-1968 United States Air Force military career of fighter pilot and ace Colonel Merle M. Coons. It includes primarily textual materials, such as military orders and records, flight records and a log book, and a scrapbook, as well as a photograph album and a small amount of loose photographs. It has been arranged into two series; textual materials and photographic materials.

Date1942-1997 CreatorCoons, Merle M., 1921-1997Resource RecordGuide to the Coons (Merle M.) Fighter Ace CollectionLanguageEnglishRights HolderThe Museum of Flight ArchivesRightsPermission to publish material from the Merle M. Coons Fighter Ace Collection must be obtained from The Museum of Flight Archives,Bibliographic CitationThe Merle M. Coons Fighter Ace Collection/The Museum of FlightAccess StatusSelections from this collection have been digitized.

Image

[Merle M. Coons]

[Merle M. Coons in cockpit of unidentified aircraft]

Document

[Encounter report from "Honkin' Tales," December 5, 1944]

[Encounter report prepared by Captain Merle C. Coons, December 5, 1944]

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Merle M. Coons Fighter Ace Collection