Photographic Prints that have been digitized and placed on the DAMS and Flickr. They have been assigned a 09 Series Number. Eugene "Smokey" Rhoads was the Chief Mechanic on the NC-4 first transatlantic flight in 1919. He later went on to have a successful career in the Navy and was Chief Inspector at Lockheed Aircraft.

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.