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1945
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0.1 Cubic feet ((1 folder))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1995.0037
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection includes leaflets, photos and reports relating to the United States bombing missions, both conventional and atomic, against Japan during 1945. Included are propaganda leaflets dropped by the United States over Japanese cities warning of bombings, including English translations of the leaflets. There is also a formerly restricted com...
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National Air and Space Museum (U.S.). Division of Aeronautics
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[ca. 1940s, 1980s]
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2.93 Cubic feet ((6 legal document boxes) (1 slim document box))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1995.0040
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
Series I of this collection consists of the following: seven folders containing almost 200 photographs and negatives on display in the exhibit, four series of slides (two detailing the U.S.S. Midway used for background research, one detailing documents and photos of the Philippine Sea battle, and of the finished museum exhibit) and the exhibit scri...
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William Jones World War II Scrapbook
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Jones, William
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bulk 1943 - 1946
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0.49 Cubic feet (1 box.)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2006.0067
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of William Jones' World War II scrapbook.
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Fransioli, Thomas Adrian, 1906-1997
Brown, Robert F.
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1981 April 21
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2 Items (Sound recording: 2 sound files, digital, wav file)
37 Pages (Transcript)
- Collection ID:
- AAA.fransi81
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
Interview of Thomas Adrian Fransioli, conducted April 21, 1981, by Robert F. Brown for the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, in Wenham, Massachusetts.
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1945
- Size:
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0.05 Cubic feet (1 folder)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2008.0018
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
Shortly before the crew of the B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay completed their mission to bomb Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, U.S. pilots dropped leaflets over Japan warning citizens to evacuate the cities. This collection consists of four original leaflets, as well as 15 color slides taken by the National Air and Space Museum photo lab of the propaganda leaflets
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Lanza, Kenneth
Lanza, Anthony, 1925-1995
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1925-1946
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bulk 1940-1946
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1.33 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0910
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
World War II personal papers, photographs, and printed material of Anthony R. Lanza, who served in the U.S. Army in Japan between 1944 and 1946.
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1945
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0.05 Cubic feet (1 folder, 3 photographs)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2008.0037
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of three photographs of his wife and infant daughter carried by Staff Sergeant George Robert "Bob" Caron aboard the Boeing B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay during the bomber's mission to Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945.
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United States. Army. Air Corps
- Dates:
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1945
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0.05 Cubic feet ((1 folder))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0846
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of three 5.5 x 8.5 inch leaflets, printed on both sides. They contain text in Japanese as well as images. Caption information from an unknown source is provided for some of the leaflets. Leaflet No. 2101 reads, "This is a message from the President of the United States, Harry Truman, to the people of Japan. The only way to ...
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1945
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0.53 Cubic feet (20 by 24 by 1 inch flat box)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2020.0029
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of an 18 inch by 21 inch spiral book, entitled, The Atomic Bomb, which was created by the United States Army Air Forces in 1945 to commemorate the success of the atomic bombs and the end of World War II.
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Rittko, Raymond N.
- Dates:
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bulk 1945
- Size:
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0.05 Cubic feet (2 folders)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1991.0095
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection contains two photographs of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress, Silverplate "Enola Gay" on the island of Tinian, taken by Raymond N. Rittko. There are also two Radio Press News releases for the "U.S.S. Guilford", dated December 12 and December 19, 1945. The releases detail post-war news stories from around the world.
