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Preddy, George E., 1919-1944
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[ca. 1940s]
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2 Cubic Feet ((5 film reels))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1993.0066
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This footage consists of five reels of film. The footage includes Preddy's combat footage, including most of his aerial victories through August 6, 1944 and some of this strafing mission footage. In addition, there is also gun camera footage of Preddy firing at two targets and ground targets in 1943.
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Diehl, William Carl, 1891-1974
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1912-1972
bulk 1945-1972
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2.7 Cubic feet ((6 legal document boxes) (1 20x24x3 flatbox))
2.52 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0469
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of biographical information, business records, information on the aviation organizations with which Diehl was involved, aviation material collected by Diehl, and information on flight, events, and aviation accidents.
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Octave Chanute Collection [Avery]
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Chanute, Octave, 1832-1910
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1886-1926
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0.45 Cubic feet ((1 legal document box))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0489
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
The collection consists of newspaper clippings dating from 1886-1926; correspondence from Sept. 1904-September 1922; glass negatives and lantern slides; publications dating from 1886-1910; and a variety of photographs. Images represented include the Chanute biplane hang glider used in St. Louis in 1904, miscellaneous gliders, Chanute's gliding expe...
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Howard, Beverly E. "Bevo,", 1914-1971
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1943-1960
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3.13 Cubic feet ((1 slim legal document box) (1 slim letter document box) (3 legal document boxes) (3 letter document boxes) (1 flatbox))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0414
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection contains material primarily relating to the Hawthorne Flying Schools. It consists of class books from the Air Force cadets that were trained at Hawthorne facilities in North and South Carolina, a scrapbook of the 1943-45 issues of Hawthorne Prop Wash, the company newsletter, and photos used in Prop Wash.
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Tait, Trevor S.
- Dates:
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1917-1918
- Size:
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0.38 Cubic feet ((1 flatbox))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2001.0040
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This scrapbook consists of photographs of Tait and his fellow cadets, plane maneuvers, gun camera photos, and newspaper clippings. Included in the collection but separate from the scrapbook are pages from a memoranda/address book, a brief memoir written by Tait in the early 1980s, and several official army certificates such as his training diplomas...
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Steichen, Edward, 1879-1973
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1941-1945
- Size:
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0.23 Cubic feet ((1 legal document box))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0553
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of 442 copy photographs including color dye coupler photo transparencies and silver gelatin photo-negatives which document U.S. Navy aircraft and aviation activities during World War II. They include aerial combat, aircraft carrier landings and takeoffs, bombings, explosions, flights, and signal exchanges. Aircraft shown in...
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Tynan, John E.
- Dates:
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1916-1974
bulk 1916-1918
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0.2 Cubic feet ((1 flatbox))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0015
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
The scrapbook documents Tynan's career in aviation, through training and active duty with photographs of personnel, activities and equipment. This includes aerial photographs of of France, and also numberous photographs of German, French, British, Italian and American aircraft, the cannon "Big Bertha" and numerous photographs documenting battlefiel...
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Weems, Philip Van Horn (P. V. H.)
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circa 1905-circa 2005
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101.81 Cubic feet ( 209 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2012.0052
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
The Philip Van Horn (P. V. H. ) Weems Papers contain 79 cu. ft. of materials related to his life and career.
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Crouch, Tom D.
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1987-1999
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2 cu. ft. (2 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 07-140
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of the personal papers of Tom D. Crouch, curator and historian. Crouch was Curator of Engineering and Industry at the National Museum of American History (NMAH) until 1990 before becoming Curator of Aeronautics, Curator, and eventually Senior Curator at the National Air and Space Museum (NASM). Crouch served on the ...
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bulk 1925
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0.25 Cubic feet (1 box (23 glass lantern slides))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0491
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
The collection consists of 23 hand-colored glass lantern slides of images taken during the 1925 Arctic expedition attempt by Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth to fly to the North Pole using a pair of Dornier Do J Wal (Whale) (Do 16) flying boats.