Twin Cities Naval Air Station collection

Collection

Identifier: 2003.118

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Box 1:

Green photo album. 159 photos dated March 1967.

Mascot/nose art graphics. A bomb wearing a helmet, holding a missle and machine gun. Duck feet.

Screen printed empty document folder. "Operations, Feb 1960, NAS Minneapolis"

Penguinews newsletter. 1946.

Photo album pages. ca. 1936-76.

Loose photos. 1936-1943.

Cadet class photos.

Misc. photos.

Pilot head shot photos with roster. May 1941.

Naval Air Station photo negatives.

Richard Fleming photo album photocopies. 1940.

Personnel photos. 1964.

Group photo copies with personnel identified.

Dedication to the Officer Personnel. yearbook, Aug 1940.

Group photos with aircraft. 1956-58.

Group photo with bi-plane. June 1937.

SH-34J aircraft water crash. 1964.

Squadron commanding officers.

Commanding officer headshot photos.

Station commanding officers.

Unit orders etc. 1966-1969.

St Mary's Navy Pre Flight School.

Articles.

US Naval and Marine Corps Reserve Aviation, vol 1-2. 1916-1942. by Wayne Heiser.

Naval Air Training and Operating Procedures Standardization Manual, C-45. 1964.

Twin Cities Naval Air Reserve newsletters. The Log. Nars News.

Herbert Houck. Navy Cross.

Aviation Cadet (AVCAD) rosters.

Unknown organization rosters.

V-5 cadet program.

Sea V Ten (USS Yorktown) newsletters.

Potential Wingers, 19 Nov 1939.

Magazines. US Naval Aviation Hall of Honor Enshrinement Ceremony, Pensacola, 1983; Our Early Navy, 1913-1945, All Hands magazine; US Navy at War Final Official Reportby Fleet Admiral Ernest King; The Reserve Officer, Sept 1951; American Fighter Aces and Friends Bulletin, Summer 1994; Over The Years, Dakota Co Historical Society, Navy V-5 Cadets 1942-45.

Navy Recruiting materials.

Box 2:

Photo album, brown paper. black and white. 976 numbered photos. aircraft, carriers, aerials.

Photo album, brown plastic. 8x10 photos. personnel.

7th AAF "Brief" magazine. 29 Feb 1944.

Group photo. Wold-Chamberlain Field. Aug 1932.

US Navy cartoons. 8x11. Approx. 40. Mostly carrier aviation operations.

V-5 reunion and correspondence. 1992-97.

Plans for NRAB/NAS Aircraft.

Aircraft.

Flight instruction.

Rosters.

Yearbook. May 1941.

NAS Twin Cities training schedule. 1967-68.

NAS Twin Cities Tar Paper newsletter.

Naval Aviation Cadet Selection Board. 1941.

Event materials. programs, etc.

Flat file folder in drawer F-2-2:

Two reunion photos, 8x14"

NATTC Reunion, Norman, Oklahoma, Oct 7 1995. with roster. 11x14"

Military group photo at hangar. Presentation of Noel Davis trophy. Aug 17 1933. Squadron VN?RDS Minneapolis Minn. US Naval Reserve Aviation Base hangar A. 10x19"

Scrapbook box:

Photo album 146. Cover with hand-painted aviation insignia. WW1 era biplanes.

Photo album 147. Blue cover. 1959-61. Wold-Chamberlain Field, Oliver Mines Virginia MN, Newspapers. World War II Times; Mpls Star Tribune Sunday Magazine May 26 1985 (USS Minneapolis); St Paul Pioneer Press Sunday Pictorial Magazine, Oct 29 1967 "Minnesota Flers Keep Shape for War"; Navy Flightline, NAS Corpus Christi, March 12 1981, 40th Anniversary; Navy Flightline, NAS Corpus Christi, June 18 1981.

NAS Mpls Instrument Flight Procedures manual, 1 May 1951.

Dates

1936-1969
Event: Donated by Mrs Roland Sorenson in 2003. Accession 2003.118

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