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[Identification card issued by United States Navy to Henry B. Christensen, circa 1930s-1940s] (Item)

Identification card issued by the United States Navy to Henry B. Christensen, circa 1930s-1940s.

[Menu, "Pine Grove To-day's Suggestions," Park Hotel (China), December 17, 1945] (Item)

Menu, "Pine Grove To-day's Suggestions," Park Hotel (China), December 17, 1945. The names of several U.S. Navy servicemen are written on the back.Inscription on verso: "Whang Poo Liberty. P. E. Nowell, James [S?] Graves, James L. Eymann, Mathew G. [illegible], Mike Woymar, Bill Aiken, Ross Koch, Paul E. Nowell, Don Buss."

[Christmas menu for Aviation Cadet Mess, Naval Air Station Pensacola, December 1944] (Item)

Christmas menu for the Aviation Cadet Mess, Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida, December 1944. Inscription on interior page: "Final Squadron, Nov. to Jan. 30 1945. Received wings."

[Letter to Elvin L. Lindsay from James Forrestal, Secretary of the Navy, circa 1944-1945] (Item)

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 against enemy Japanese forces during the Battle for Leyte Gulf, October 25, 1944." One typed page.Item from a disassembled scrapbook documenting the U.S.…

[Aviator's flight log book for Elvin L. Lindsay, circa 1943-1945] (Item)

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 image of a Grumman F8F Bearcat aircraft being loaded onto the USS Boxer (CV-21).

[Aviator's flight log book for Elvin L. Lindsay, circa 1941-1942] (Item)

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

[Letter to Elvin L. Lindsay from Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher, U.S. Navy, circa 1944-1945] (Item)

Letter to Elvin L. Lindsay from Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher, U.S. Navy, circa 1944-1945. Presents Lindsay with the Distinguished Flying Cross "for distinguishing himself by meritorious achievement while participating in an aerial flight as pilot of a carrier based fighter aircraft assigned to a strike against enemy installations on an island of the Bonin Group on 5 August 1944." One typed…

[Memorandum to Commanding Officer, Fighting Squadron 19 (VF-19), from Navy Department Board of Decorations and Medals, December 7, 1944] (Item)

Memorandum to the Commanding Officer, Fighting Squadron 19 (VF-19), from Captain H. G. Patrick, Navy Department Board of Decorations and Medals, December 7, 1944. Recommends that an entry for Lieutenant Elvin L. Lindsay's actions in searching for and locating a crashed Grumman TBF-1C aircraft be added to his Fitness Report. One typed page.Item from a disassembled scrapbook documenting the U.S.…

[Letter to Elvin L. Lindsay from Bureau of Naval Personnel, December 19, 1946] (Item)

Letter to Elvin L. Lindsay from the Bureau of Naval Personnel, December 19, 1946. Forwards permanent citation for Lindsay's Distinguished Flying Cross. One typed page.Item from a disassembled scrapbook documenting the U.S. Navy career of Elvin L. Lindsay, circa 1944-1947.

Palouse officer leads Jap attack [Clipping, 1943-1945] (Item)

Newspaper clipping, "Palouse officer leads Jap attack," from an unidentified publication, circa 1943-1945. Reports on Lieutenant Elvin L. Lindsay's participation in a combat flight over southwestern Luzon. Item from a disassembled scrapbook documenting the U.S. Navy career of Elvin L. Lindsay, circa 1944-1947.