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Items from Box One, Folder 3 of the Thomas Walter Jackson World War II Collection, circa 1939-1940. Folder contains 17 letters written by Jackson to his fiancée, Helen Jane Klinger, during his time stationed at Moffett Field, California.
Pilot logbook for Lee Embree, circa 1935-1945. The address listed at the beginning of the log is: "Base Operations Office, March Field, California." Seventeen (17) pages.
Note from Lee Embree to his wife gifting her his service bars, circa 1942-1945.
Inscription: "Remember when you pinned these very same bars on my shirt, honey? Yes darling, these are the ones I graduated with and I would like you to have them to remember that very happy day back in New Jersey. Just for you, my love, Lee."
Pilot's logbook belonging to U.S. Army Air Corps serviceman Robert L. Simons, 1937-1940.
Newspaper clipping, "Fliers to bomb derelict in gulf," from an unidentified newspaper, circa 1926-1927. Reports on high-altitude bombing practice being carried out by students of the Advanced Flying School (Kelly Field, Tex.) at Fort Crockett.Part of a photograph album related to Julius A. Barr's flight training with the U.S. Army Air Corps at Brooks Field and Kelly Field, Texas, circa 1926-1927.
Items from Box One, Folder 9 of the Lewis Paul Bowers World War II Collection, January 1943 to June 1943. Folder contains 14 letters written by Bowers to his mother Ora E. Bowers and his sister Claradee Bowers during his military service, and one letter written by Major William H. Young, U.S. Army Air Corps, to Bowers' parents, congratulating them on their son's enlistment.
Items from Box One, Folder 10 of the Lewis Paul Bowers World War II Collection, July 1943 to December 1943. Folder contains 22 letters and postcards written by Bowers to family members during his military service. Most of the letters are addressed to his mother, Ora E. Bowers. One letter is missing its first page.
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 mother, Ora E. Bowers. Several of the letters are V-mail letters.
Items from Box One, Folder 12 of the Lewis Paul Bowers World War II Collection, January 1945 to May 1945. Folder contains seven letters written by Bowers to family members during his military service. Most of the letters are addressed to his mother, Ora E. Bowers.
Air mail envelope commemorating the first day of the U.S. Army Air Corps taking over air mail deliveries, February 19, 1934. Addressed to Cal. E. D. Adams in San Francisco, California.
Text on envelope: "The Army flies the mail. First day cover."