Military Papers in the Byrd Personal Papers Series

Location Box Folder Folder Description
054-722.14-2 106 4126 1916-24: Trans-Atlantic flight, permission to use Navy airplane sought; Orders regarding work as Inspector-Instructor in Rhode Island Navy Militia: Inactive list, plan to go on; Aerial navigation; Bureau of Navigation; Promotion efforts; R38 crash
054-722.14-2 106 4127 1916-25: Inspector-Instructor Navy Militia orders detailed to Rhode Island and Florida; Navy work, Europe; Norwalk Tire Company, correspondence, regarding plans to be Washington agent; ZR-2 Trans-Atlantic flight plans; Correspondence; Trans-Atlantic flight
054-722.14-3 107 4128 1918: U.S. Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida; Synopsis, lecture notes, transcript; Prepared lectures, transcripts
054-722.14-3 107 4129 1918: Aeronautical school orders, Pensacola, Florida
054-722.14-3 107 4130 1919-30: Roosevelt, Franklin D., correspondence regarding promotion, Congressional lobbying; Stocks, correspondence; Commendations
054-722.14-3 107 4131 1921-22: R38 crash; Miscellaneous records
054-722.14-3 107 4132 1922-27: North Pole flight; Navy-Congressional relations, memorandum; Motor boats; Promotion
054-722.14-3 107 4132 1925; PN-9 #1 Seaplane, voyage
054-722.14-3 107 4133 1937-41: U.S. Antarctic Service expedition orders
054-722.14-3 107 4134 1942: Bureau of Aeronautics, Navy Defense program
054-722.14-3 107 4135 1942: Bureau of Aeronautics; Naval personnel orders; Bureau of Navigation orders
054-722.14-3 107 4136 1943-44: Air Force, arguments for and against: Civilian decorations, regulations; Allied Powers, postwar relations, transcript; Navy, Office of Public Relations; Mapping
054-722.14-3 107 4137 1943-45: Tactical Air Command memorandum; Postwar political situation, notes and records; Airplane log
054-722.14-3 107 4138 1945-57 and undated: Strategic Air Bombing survey; Okinawa, postwar organization; Keitel, Wilhelm, Field Marshal, interview; World War II activities, Byrd, Richard E.
054-722.14-3 107 4138.01 1945-57 and undated: United States Strategic Bombing Survey; Coil, Emory, death of; McKinley, Ashley, report; Greenland, military usefulness
054-722.14-3 107 4138.02 1945-57 and undated: United States Strategic Bombing Survey
054-722.14-3 107 4138.03 1945-57 and undated: Mobilization discussion; House Appropriations Sub-Committee; Homing pigeons; Air intelligence; World War II activities, Byrd, Richard E.; McKinley, Ashley, effectiveness report; Arctic ship requirements, survey; Operation Nanook II
054-722.14-3 107 4138.04 1945-57 and undated: Greenland, defense of; Joint Strategic Plans Committee, report; Discharge paper
054-722.14-3 107 4139 1951-53: Active duty, relief from; Correspondence register; Fitness reports
054-722.14-3 107 4140 Undated: Navy Department statement regarding Byrd's military status; Transcript, "My Experiences as a Navy Wife" (author not identified); Naval publicity, memorandum; Chaplain's Bureau; Washburn, Bradford, Army Air Corps paper