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Keesler Field (Miss.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Nicholas and Jeanne Baldino transcript

 Collection — Single Folder Collections - 2006 Box 2 (06.0075-06.0150), Folder: 06.0106 - Folder 1
Identifier: 06.0106
Content Description

This collection relates to Nicholas Baldino who served in the U.S. Army Air Corps with the 5th and 11th Bomb Groups in the Pacific Theatre and his wife Jeanne Baldino. This collection contains an oral history transcript detailing Nicholas Baldino's military service and how Jeanne met Nicholas Baldino.

Dates: Other: Date accessioned: 2005-04-13; Event: Majority of material found within 1943-1946

Kenneth H. Cardwell collection

 Collection — 01.0011 - Box 1
Identifier: 01.0011
Content Description

This collection relates to Kenneth H. Cardwell, who served in the Army Air Corps from 1941 to 1945. The collection contains a bound memoir of Cardwell's service which details his experiences in Australia and New Guinea. Included as well in the memoir are photographs from his service, diagrams, cartoons, and Cardwell's certificate of training and service.

Dates: 1988; Event: 1941-1945; Other: Date accessioned: 2001-01-05

Allen H. Crawford transcript

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 03.0030
Content Description

This collection relates to Allen H. Crawford who served in the U.S. Army Air Force as a bombardier and navigator in the 401st Bomb Group in the European Theater of Operation during World War II. This collection contains an oral history transcript where Crawford details his numerous bombing missions over Germany from late 1944 through the end of the war.

Dates: Event: 1943-1945; June 5, 2000

Charles Jackson Gantt papers

 Collection — Box 19.0019-Box 1
Identifier: 19.0019
Content Description

This collection relates to Technical Sergeant Charles Jackson Gantt who served in the U.S. Army Air Corps as a Weather Forecaster with the 12th Weather Squadron during the North African Campaign and Italian Campaign during World War II. The collection contains original letters written by Gantt to family, transcripts of his letters, a manuscript memoir, photographs, and military personnel records.

Dates: 1942-1945; Other: Date accessioned: 2019-09-16

Arthur Goold Morrill collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 19.0017
Content Description

This collection relates to Arthur Goold Morrill who served as a Captain in the U.S. Army Air Corps as an administrative and statistical officer related to personnel and inventory records in the United States. The collection contains photographs and military personnel documents.

Dates: 1941-1952; Other: Date accessioned: 2019-08-01

Seth A. McKinney collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 99.0191
Scope and Contents

Technical Sergeant Seth A. McKinney served as a flight engineer and a gunner on a B-24 Liberator stationed at Cerignola, Italy. He completed over 40 missions as a part of the 767th Bombardment Squadron, 461st Bombardment Group of the 15th Air Force.  This collection includes photographs, documents, and artifacts.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1917-1977; Other: Majority of material found in 1942-1945; Other: Date acquired: 04/19/1999

Theodore Harrington collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 98.0371
Scope and Contents The Theodore Harrington Collection contains items gathered by Theodore Harrington's mother and pertain to his time as an airman on the home front during World War II. The majority of the collection centers around his years of service in the Army Air Corps, from 1944-1945. Contained in the collection are folders with material created by Harrington or those around him, including letters, journal and memoir entries, and photographs. The letters are primarily from Harrington to either friends or his parents. The photographs feature servicemen posing with women or are of Harrington's family. The remainder of the collection includes newspaper clippings, church bulletins, postcards,...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1942-1945; Other: Majority of material found in 1944-1945; Other: Date acquired: 06/16/1998