Cold War
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Norman Howard Casson Personal Papers
Collection
Identifier: SDASM-SC-10024
Abstract
Norman Howard Casson has spent his technical career of six decades in aerospace. This collection contains photographs and text materials related to Casson's work, with the bulk related to his work on NASA's manned luanr missions, "Project Apollo".
Dates:
1965 - 2010; Majority of material found within 1965 - 1969
Convairiety Periodical Collection
Collection
Identifier: SDASM-SC-10175
Abstract
This collection contains the full run of Convairiety, the company newsletter of Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation (Convair).
Dates:
1948 - 1961
Capt. Eugene P. Rankin Personal Papers
Collection
Identifier: SDASM-SC-10116
Abstract
Eugene P. Rankin was born in 1916. He graduated from the Naval Academy at Pensacola, Florida, in 1941. In 1943, he served in World War 2 in the Pacific Theater. There he was the commanding officer in a “Black Cat Squadron”, conducting nighttime attack missions consolidated PBY Catalina patrol bombers. Afterwards, Rankin became a Captain of the USS Kearsarge (CV-33). The Kearsarge was tasked with assisting Project Mercury, in that it would have to recover astronauts who splashed down in the...
Dates:
1944 - 1997; Majority of material found within 1945 - 1963