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Republic of China blood chit from the collection of Gerald Hennesy.
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Aviator's Flight Log book from the collection of Lieutenant Gerald Hennesy. Contains flight log records from May 1942 to October 1944. A selection of pages have been scanned to give an insight into a...
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Aviator's Flight Log book from the collection of Lieutenant Gerald Hennesy. Contains flight log records from November 1944 to June 1950. A selection of pages have been scanned to give an insight into...
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Aviator's Flight Log book from the collection of Lieutenant Gerald Hennesy. Contains flight log records from August 1950 to October 1958, with his last flight taken June 2021. A selection of pages...
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Lieutenant Gerald Hennesy's aviator notebook containing settings for flight equipment, navigation, instrument use and emergency landing procedures. Contains handwritten notes about Light Signals. A...
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Letter from Gerald Hennesy to his mother, Frances Hennesy postmarked April 19, 1945. Letter details his life on the ship and a poem. Three page letter and envelope.
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A letter from Gerald Hennesy to his mother dated May 10. The letter recounts everyday life aboard a late war aircraft carrier and mentions the ongoing bombing campaign against the Japanese home...
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Letter from Lt. Gerald Hennesy to his mother, Frances Hennesy dated May 12, 1945. Letter describes food service on the on the transport ship USS Makassar Strait to the Pacific where Air Group 88 was...
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Letter from Lt. Gerald Hennesy to his mother, Frances Hennesy, dated June 8, 1945. Letter details his flight departures at 3:30am, his making lieutenant rank, and listening to Japanese broadcasts...
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Letter from Lt. Gerald Hennesy to his mother, Frances Hennesy, dated June 22, 1945. Letter details shore leave, and some fellow aviators on board with him.
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Letter from Lt. Gerald Hennesy to his sister, Shirley Hennesy, dated June 29, 1945. Letter details shore leave, exploring a nearby town on the island, and his free time on the USS Yorktown. The...
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Letter from Lt. Gerald Hennesy to his mother, Frances Hennesy, dated July 25, 1945. Letter details receiving a care package from home, waiting in the ready room to fly, and life on the ship.
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In this letter to his mother, Gerald Hennesy discusses the use of the atomic bomb, the end of World War II, and the Navy's attempts to retain sailors now that the Second World War has ended.
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Letter from Lt. Gerald Hennesy to his mother, Frances Hennesy, dated September 6, 1945. Letter details Hennesy's flights over Tokyo, dropping supplies to POW camps in Japan, a pilot's return from a...
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Letter from Lt. Gerald Hennesy to his mother, Frances Hennesy, dated September 23, 1945. Letter details Hennessy's view of Japan just after the end of World War II as part of US occupation. The...
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Black and white studio portrait of then Commander James H. Flatley, Jr in his dress whites uniform.
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Photograph of James H. Flatley Jr. while he attended the US Naval Academy in Maryland. Flatley graduated from the Naval Academy in 1929.
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Group photo, including Vice Admiral Marc Mitscher (middle front row), Arleigh Burke (fourth from left), and Jimmy Flatley (third from left), on the deck of the USS Enterprise (CV-6), May 12, 1945.
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Photograph of Fighting Squadron Five (VF-5) on an unidentified aircraft carrier. Jimmy Flatley can be seen on the second row, 3rd from the left. Leslie Gehres can be seen holding the squadron insignia...
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Photograph of Jimmy Flatley with Fighting Squadron Five (VF-5) in a Grumman FF-1 biplane in 1933.