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Box 13

 Container

Contains 1 Result:

Bradley Briscoe Summers papers, before 2001

 File — Box: 13, Folder: 9
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 7 Sub-Series 2 Sub-Series 2 File 329
Scope and Contents note Materials contain a detailed memoir concerning Bradley Briscoe Summers's induction, flight training, and combat in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II. Includes newspaper articles and sketches related to a crash landing and the crew's subsequent rescue by a passing convoy. Discusses his bombing missions, as part of a B-17 Liberator Bomber crew. Describes an early mission over Hamburg, Germany, in which his airplane was shot down and the crew was captured by German soldiers. Majority...
Dates: before 2001