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Guide to the Joseph Gervais Papers, 2Nd Gervais, Joseph This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on February 06, 2020. English (eng) Describing Archives: A Content Standard First revision by Patrizia Nava, CA. 2015-11-13. Second revision by Thomas Allen, PhD, CA. 2018-05-24. Special Collections and Archives Division, History of Aviation Archives. 3020 Waterview Pkwy SP2 Suite 11.206 Richardson, Texas 75080 [email protected]. URL: https://www.utdallas.edu/library/special-collections-and-archives/ Gervais, Joseph Table of Contents Summary Information .................................................................................................................................... 3 Biographical Sketch ....................................................................................................................................... 3 Scope and Content ......................................................................................................................................... 5 Series Description .......................................................................................................................................... 6 Administrative Information ............................................................................................................................ 7 Related Materials ........................................................................................................................................... 8 Controlled Access Headings .......................................................................................................................... 9 Image ID ......................................................................................................................................................... 9 Collection Inventory ..................................................................................................................................... 11 Series I. Research Documents ................................................................................................................... 11 Series II. Correspondence ......................................................................................................................... 23 Series III. Newsletters ............................................................................................................................... 23 Series IV. Book Manuscripts and Screenplays ......................................................................................... 24 Series V. Lawsuits ..................................................................................................................................... 25 Series VI. Philatelic and Personal Material .............................................................................................. 26 Series VII. Video Tapes (VHS) ................................................................................................................ 27 Series VIII. Images .................................................................................................................................... 28 Series IX. Audio Tapes ............................................................................................................................. 31 Series X. Oversize Material ...................................................................................................................... 32 Series XI. Memorabilia ............................................................................................................................. 32 - Page 2 - Gervais, Joseph Summary Information Repository: Special Collections and Archives Division, History of Aviation Archives. Title: Joseph Gervais Papers ID: H118-05 Date [inclusive]: 1937-2004 Date [bulk]: 1970-2002 Physical Description: 20.0 Linear Feet (Thirty-one manuscript boxes, four non-standard boxes (25.5x9.5x2.5), two slide boxes (5.0x5.0x33.5), two video storage boxes (8.5x17.5x5.0), and one audio cassette storage box (12.5x9.0x3.0).) Language of the Collection is in English. Material: Abstract: After having pursued a career as a pilot and completing a tour in World War II, Joseph Gervais became interested in the Amelia Earhart story while stationed in Okinawa, Japan. Gervais, along with fellow Air Force officers Major Bob Dinger and Colonel Paul Briand, Jr. helped to start the group Operation Earhart. They began investigating Amelia Earhart's disappearance but were ordered to stop by their Air Force superiors. Briand obeyed these orders but Gervais refused, retiring from the Air Force. Gervais continued his research into the Earhart disappearance, gaining the help of Joe Klass, a former military pilot. Citation Joseph Gervais Papers, Document name or type, Folder number, Box number, Series number, History of Aviation Archives, Special Collections and Archives Division, Eugene McDermott Library, The University of Texas at Dallas. ^ Return to Table of Contents Biographical Sketch Joseph Gervais was born 19 May 1924 in Tyningsboro, Massachusetts. He joined the United States Army Air Corps at Fort Davis, Massachusetts on 10 November 1942 and took basic training in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Gervais went to Truax Field Wisconsin, after basic training where he took the Airborne - Page 3- Gervais, Joseph Radio Operator course, and upon completion of this course, Gervais was selected for pilot training. He was sent to Douglas, Arizona where he graduated 10 April 1944. He then received combat crew training in a Consolidated B-24 Liberator bombers as an aircraft commander. Having successfully finished all of his training, Gervais was assigned to the 484th Bomb Group, 15th Air Force, based in Italy. While serving with the 484th Bomb Group, Gervais completed twenty-six combat missions that took him over Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, and Northern Italy. After completing his combat tour, he was assigned to the Air Depot Group as a test pilot until VE Day. From 1951 to 1959 Gervais served at Griffiss Air Force Base as a Boeing B-29 aircraft commander. Some of his missions included flying radar evaluation and electronic countermeasures flights. In 1959, Gervais received an overseas assignment as a Lockheed C-130 Aircraft Commander where he flew airlift missions for SEATO in Laos, Vietnam, and Thailand. In 1962 Gervais was assigned to Nellis Air Force Base as Assistant Director of Administration, Base Postal Officer, and Top Secret Control Officer until his retirement in 1963. It was while stationed in Okinawa that Major Gervais first became interested in the Amelia Earhart mystery. He received orders to fly four Lockheed C-130s to Australia in order to transport members of the Rockefeller family to New Guinea to investigate the disappearance of their son. While in New Guinea, Gervais visited Lae Island, the place where Amelia Earhart was last seen alive. He talked to several people who were present when she and navigator Fred Noonan took off for Howland Island in 1937. In 1960, Major Gervais started Operation Earhart along with fellow Air Force officers Major Bob Dinger and Colonel Paul Briand, Jr. Dinger and Gervais were squadron mates and Briand was an Air Force Academy professor whose thesis and eventual book, Daughter of the Sky, helped get the group started. Eventually, Air Force superiors ordered the group to stop all investigations into the Earhart disappearance. Briand obeyed but Gervais refused, resulting in his retirement from the Air Force. Gervais continued his research into the Earhart disappearance, gaining the help of Joe Klass, a former military pilot. Their quest for answers began with a search for the remains of Earhart's Lockheed Electra, believed to have crashed in the Pacific Ocean near Howland Island. No aircraft wreckage was found, but their research led them to Saipan where native residents claimed to have seen Earhart and Noonan alive as Japanese prisoners. Eventually their search led them to a woman living in the United States who resembled Earhart, not just in appearance, but in her speech and other mannerisms as well. Gervais believed this woman, Irene Bolam, was indeed Amelia Earhart. They believe that Earhart and Noonan, while "spying" for the United States, were forced down and captured by the Japanese. After the war, they believed she returned home under the assumed name Irene Craigmile and later married Guy Bolam. Joe Klass, using Gervais' research, wrote a book titled Amelia Earhart Lives. Bolam sued Klass, Gervais, and the publisher, McGraw-Hill, with the result that McGraw-Hill agreed to withdraw the book. Gervais' theory as to what happened to Amelia Earhart is a well-researched one. Gervais and his colleagues were seasoned Air Force pilots, and thus, understood the problems in flying long distances - Page 4- Gervais, Joseph over water as well as the technical aspects of flying aircraft. Their experience and some of the documents and leads uncovered in their research led them to believe that Amelia Earhart did indeed survive. Sources Source Klass, Joe. "Amelia Earhart Lives: A Trip Through Intrigue to Find America's First Lady of Mystery." New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1970. Source "Joseph Gervais Papers," "Joe Gervais Memorial Dinner" June 25, 2005, Folder 6, Box 1, Series VI, History of Aviation Archives, Special Collections and Archives Division, Eugene McDermott Library, The University of Texas at Dallas. ^ Return to Table of Contents Scope and Content The majority of the materials contained in this collection are documents obtained by Joseph Gervais
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