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Items from Box 50, Folder 20 of the William P. and Moya Olsen Lear Papers, 1947-1966. Contains a clipping, photographs, and correspondence related to Bill Odom's around-the-world flight using a Lear automatic direct finder. Five total items.
Photograph of U.S. Navy pilot David McCampbell in his Grumman F6F Hellcat aircraft, USS Essex (CV-9), circa 1943-1945. Thirty aerial victories are painted under the cockpit. Image includes a clipping of McCampbell obituary.Inscription on verso: "Comdr David McCampbell / Air Group 15 commander / In Gruman Hellcat. / He shot down 4 more Japs after this picture was taken. / U.S.S. Essex /…
Photographic reproduction of a page from "Viewfinder," the squadron newsletter for the 86th Combat Mapping Squadron, U.S. Army Air Forces, October 16, 1944. Reports on news during the squadron's time in the Mariana Islands.
Photographic group portrait of servicemen at Camp Taliaferro, Texas, Jan. 23, 1918. The men, including Harold E. Hartney, are identified by last name in an inscription on the accompanying envelope. Also included is a newspaper clipping attached to the photo's mount: "Kansas aviator downs fifth enemy, becomes newest American ace," by Newton C. Parke. The clipping reports on Hartney [misspelled as…
Items from Box 82, Folder 11 of the William P. and Moya Olsen Lear Papers, June to August 1964. Contains congratulatory correspondence, clippings, and photographs related to the FAA certification of the Learjet 23 aircraft. 35 total items.