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Frank Raymond Burgess has a long history with the Consolidated Patrol Bomber PBY-5A and served in the US Navy for several years.

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“The Consolidated News” was a newsletter that was published weekly during World War II. The majority of the newsletters in this collection are from the San Diego Division, and most of the newsletters are bound together in four hard cover albums.

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The entire collection is Consolidator magazine newsletters. It is organized by date, starting from October 1936 and ending in April 1942.

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Frank Courtney started his aviation career in 1913, flying in World War I, World War II, and serving in commercial and military aviation for decades. His collection contains IDs, passports, and journals from 1922-1971.

Abstract The collection contains working files compiled by Gordon M. Jackson, an engineer at the Convair Division of General Dynamics in San Diego. During his engineering career with Convair, Jackson was recognized as the unofficial historian of the company’s historical production records. Researchers seeking information about the company’s products, back to its formative years and predecessor companies, relied on Jackson’s handwritten spread sheets, documenting company model numbers, years and...

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James Leo Kelley worked for Consolidated Aircraft Corporation from 1934 until 1970. This collection contains his personal desk diaries from that time period. Entries include personal and work-related daily incidents.

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Capt. Aram Y. (Dick) Parunak, USN (1910–2007) was a U.S. Navy pilot during World War II, who became the first pilot to land and takeoff on Greenland’s ice cap during the rescue of the crew of a crashed B-17. In just over a month, Parunak was pilot for four such rescues.

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Robert F. Pavey was born in 1928 in Vernal, Utah. He joined the Navy and served in the Navy Photographic Section.

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John Charles Sachs served in the US Navy for 20 years. He served on three ships, the USS Williamson (DD244), the USS Fabius (ARV(A)5), and the USS Philippine Sea (CVA47); in two aircraft squadrons, VP-14 and VC-35; and two tours of shore duty at NAS Jacksonville and NAS North Island.

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This collection of over 90 color slides was accumulated during the career of an unknown U.S. Navy officer. The slides span roughly twenty years, from pilot’s training at NAS Pensacola in 1945 to an assignment to weather squadron VW-3 in the early sixties. While in port in San Diego in 1955 the officer visited the Torrey Pines Glider Port and photographed a number of interesting gliders there.