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| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Rodney Williams, a World War I pilot from Delafield, Wisconsin, posed wearing his U.S. Air Service uniform. With five enemy aircraft downed in July 1918, ... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Jesse C. Brabazon, a pioneer aviator from Delavan, Wisconsin, in his uniform as a member of the Milwaukee Wing of the Civil Air Patrol during World War II. |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Elvated view of war hero Richard Ira Bong (center, in flight jacket) on leave in Poplar, with friends, relatives, and admirers. The group is walking down a... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | General William Mitchell, with his personal airplane and Milwaukee airport manager Giles Meisenheimer at Butler Field, the first Milwaukee County airport. ... |
| Date: | 11 08 1956 |
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| Description: | The first F-102 jet arrives at Truax Field. |
| Date: | 07 16 1943 |
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| Description: | Dobby's Cosmo Club, owned by John C. Dobson, Route 1, Mendota, Wisconsin, interior view of the bar showing liquor bottles and three World War II servicemen... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Civil Air Patrol membership card belonging to Meinhardt Raabe. |
| Date: | 05 1946 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Bong, Chief Justice Rosenberry, Mrs. Goodland, Governor Goodland, Marge Bong, Mr. Bong and Mr. Fred (president of the University of Wisconsin) await p... |
| Date: | 05 1946 |
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| Description: | Marge Bong and General Kenney standing by a bust of Major Richard Ira Bong (1920-1945), at the Richard Bong Memorial dedication on Memorial Day. |
| Date: | 12 27 1944 |
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| Description: | War hero Capt. Richard I. Bong, of Poplar, Wisconsin, credited with knocking out 21 Japanese planes in the South Pacific, shaking hands with Governor Walte... |
| Date: | 07 24 1952 |
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| Description: | Governor Walter J. Kohler, Jr., turns around in his seat at the state fair to shake hands with three Civil Air Patrol cadets. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Instructor on the wing of a biplane talking with an airman trainee in the cockpit of a plane during flight training at Truax Field during World War II. |
| Date: | 07 02 1945 |
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| Description: | First Lieut. Robert V. Merklein is showing his father, O.F. Merklein, the location of Yokohama, where he downed his first Japanese plane. |
| Date: | 07 27 1945 |
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| Description: | Funeral wreath with photograph in center of Lieut. William T. Gleason, at Lieut. Gleason's funeral service held on July 27, 1945, at St. Bernard's Church. ... |
| Date: | 11 15 1945 |
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| Description: | Roundy Coughlin shaking hands with Lieut. Col. Royal Thompson as they renew their acquaintance from attending a baseball game in Chicago when Royal Thompso... |
| Date: | 08 03 1946 |
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| Description: | Lieutenant General Eaker at the Madison airport in front of a B-17 bomber. He is shown with State Representative K. Henry (R-Jefferson) and welcoming commi... |
| Date: | 08 15 1946 |
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| Description: | Lieut. Theordore Haspell is shown receiving four gold stars from Capt. J.E. Hurff, University of Wisconsin professor of naval science and tactics. The star... |
| Date: | 08 17 1946 |
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| Description: | The original crew of "Dave's Dream," the B-29 airplane which dropped the first atomic bomb on Bikini Island, in front of the plane at Truax Field during a ... |
| Date: | 08 17 1946 |
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| Description: | Mrs. J.C. Ferguson, pilot Major Woodrow Swancutt, and Dick Johnson standing in front of B-29 airplane, "Dave's Dream" at Truax Field. Major Swancutt, a Wi... |
| Date: | 11 08 1948 |
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| Description: | Capt. Homer P. Anderson, U.S. Air Force, (center) posing at a meeting of the Kiwanis club at the Park Hotel. With him are his co-pilot from Langley Field i... |
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