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Air pilots -- United States -- Diaries

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

Margaret Bringhurst family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 9280
Scope and Contents

Includes the diaries of Margaret Bringhurst's parents, Golden Lang and Lillie Williams, including letters. Golden Lang's diaries were kept during his service in the United States Navy during WWII. Also includes Margaret's own diaries, letters, and photographs. Dated 1923 to 2017.

Dates: 1923-2017

Richard Marsh Butler papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 8849
Scope and Contents Consists of Richard Marsh Butler's personal scrapbook (including military papers, foreign cartoons and maps, photographs, letters, notes and other small personal memorabilia, a patriarchal blessing, a lock of hair, cloth swatches, pieces of Nazi stationary, postcards, foreign currency, etc.); POW items (clippings, letters, ID cards, etc.); family history papers (a historical guardianship transfer document, Butler's flight log and war diary; assorted ephemera, including U.S. and foreign...
Dates: approximately 1888-1997; Majority of material found within approximately 1933-1953

Golden Lang diary and letters, 1932-1944

 Series — Carton 2: Series 1; Series 2; Series 3 [Barcode: 31197239125146], Folder: 4-7
Identifier: MSS 9280 Series 2
Scope and Contents

Contains Golden Lang's journal entries from World War II, with reports of deaths of his comrades and the sorrows of war. There are also letters to his family at home and photographs of Golden and from the war. Dated approximately 1932 to 1944, when Lang died in an aircraft crash. Most of the content is set in Europe, but there are mentions of his training in California and elsewhere throughout the United States.

Dates: 1932-1944

Richard Marsh Butler post-WWII papers, 1945-2005

 Series
Identifier: MSS 8849 Series 4
Scope and Contents

Contains military and flight records documenting Richard Marsh Butler's post-WWII military career in the Air Reserves, as well as correspondence with fellow prisoners of war, publications regarding Stalag Luft III, airplanes, and other military ephemera. Materials dated 1945 to 2005.

Dates: 1945-2005

Richard Marsh Butler scrapbooks and journals, 1933-1945

 Series
Identifier: MSS 8849 Series 3
Scope and Contents

Contains diaries and scrapbooks created by Richard Marsh Butler during and about his time serving in WWII, including his time serving in a German prisoner of war camp. Materials dated 1933-1945.

Dates: 1933-1945

Richard Marsh Butler WWII artifacts, 1939-1960

 Series
Identifier: MSS 8849 Series 2
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Consists of Richard Marsh Butler's personal scrapbook (including military papers, foreign cartoons and maps, photographs, letters, notes and other small personal memorabilia, a patriarchal blessing, a lock of hair, cloth swatches, pieces of Nazi stationary, postcards, foreign currency, etc.); POW items (clippings, letters, ID cards, etc.); family history papers (a historical guardianship transfer document, Butler's flight log and war diary; assorted ephemera, including U.S. and foreign...
Dates: 1939-1960

Richard Marsh Butler WWII letters, 1940-1945

 Series
Identifier: MSS 8849
Scope and Contents

Contains a partial accounts of Richard's time as a prisoner of war and German POW identification cards. Materials dated 1936-1945 and 1991.

Dates: 1940-1945

Richard Marsh Butler WWII papers, 1927-1955

 Series
Identifier: MSS 8849 Series 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Consists of Richard Marsh Butler's personal scrapbook (including military papers, foreign cartoons and maps, photographs, letters, notes and other small personal memorabilia, a patriarchal blessing, a lock of hair, cloth swatches, pieces of Nazi stationary, postcards, foreign currency, etc.); POW items (clippings, letters, ID cards, etc.); family history papers (a historical guardianship transfer document, Butler's flight log and war diary; assorted ephemera, including U.S. and foreign...
Dates: 1927-1955

The journal of helping with the Armenian relief effort after the earthquake

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230328426]
Identifier: MSS SC 2858
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a handwritten diary entry for 1989. Smith writes about his flights in the Armenian relief effort.

Dates: 1989