Abstract Primarily, this collection focuses on Balsley’s service as a member of the Lafayette Escadrille. A significant item is a reprint of Balsley’s war-time diary. This collection contains many newspaper clippings concerning injuries sustained when his airplane was shot down in service. Balsley gained some fame and therefore generated much publicity when making appearances or speeches during his subsequent service during war bond drives. Several letters seem to detail Balsley’s efforts to claim...

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The collection contains photographs and some ephemera from Walter B. Havekorst and is mostly of Rockwell Field dating back to 1918. Havekorst was assigned to Rockwell Field for his primary flight training and these photographs highlight the typical day-to-day activities of a young aviator in flight training.

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Jack Herd served in the Army Air Corps in the 1920s.

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J. Thad Johnson was a WWI navy pilot in training for most of WWI. After the war he participated in the first transcontinental flight from New York to San Francisco and other aviation feats.

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Hubert Latham was a French Aviation Pioneer.

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Theodore Maculay was a student at the Curtiss Aviation School and was an employee and member of the U.S. Army Signal Corps. As flight instructor, Macaulay regularly submitted names and validations for students to receive certification from the Aero Club of America.

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Col. Frank Walter Seifert, (September 29, 1896 – December 1, 1977) was an aviation pioneer and a veteran of World War II. He was on the team which preformed the first aerial refueling.

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Emmet Tanner enlisted in the Army at the start of World War I. In 1919, Tanner won the first transcontinental air race from San Francisco to New York City in a de Havilland plane (the first of the Western flyers to make the trip).

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This collection contains photos of the 11th Bomb Squadron at Rockwell Field, San Diego.