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THE HISTORY OF AVIATION COLLECTION The Admiral Rosendahl Collection The James H. Doolittle Library The CAT/Air America Archive Summer 2008 The George H. Williams Library CNN analyst, former pilot & Air National Guard director to present ’08 Jalonick Memorial Lecture on June 21st

Major General Donald W. Shepperd For information please call (USAF Ret.) is this year’s George W. 972-883-2570 Jalonick III and Dorothy Cockrell Jalonick Memorial Distinguished Lecture Gen. Shepperd was the director of the Series speaker. Air National Guard at the The Pentagon. The free lecture will be held June 21, As director, he was responsible for formu- 2008 at 4 p.m. in McDermott Library Au- lating, developing, and coordinating all ditorium on the campus of The University programs, policies, and plans affecting the of Texas at Dallas. The title of Gen. Shep- almost 117,000 Air Guard members in perd’s presentation is “Double, Double, more than 1,300 units throughout the Toil and Trouble - Implications of the , the District of Columbia, Modern World (Especially the Mid-East) Puerto Rico, Guam and the Virgin Islands. for Aviation.” “It is an audio-visual He graduated from the fourth class of tongue-in-cheek look at history in my life- the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1962. time and how it got us to where we are After receiving his wings, he was assigned going. It promises to be a humorous, fun- to duty in West Germany and South Viet- filled afternoon,” says Gen. Shepperd. nam. He joined the Arizona Air National A reception will follow the lecture in Guard in August 1974 where he held posi- Maj. Gen. Donald W. Shepperd (USAF Ret.) the Special Collections Department where tions including squadron commander, there will be an opportunity to meet Gen- group deputy commander for operations, having flown more than 5,000 hours, and eral Shepperd who will participate in a and group vice commander. flew 247 fighter combat missions in booksigning. His latest book with co-au- In January 1987, he transferred to the Southeast Asia. Gen. Shepperd retired thor Rick Newman is Bury Us Upside Massachusetts ANG as the air commander from the military Sept. 14, 2000, and is Down: The Misty Pilots and the Secret of the 102d Fighter Interceptor Wing. In currently a military analyst for CNN. He Battle for the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Books July 1989, he was appointed as deputy di- is heard regularly over ABC radio with will be available at the lecture from the rector, Air National Guard, National commentary on Mid-East politics and the UTD Bookstore. Guard Bureau. He is a command pilot, war on terror.

Doolittle Raiders Visit UTD

At left, Raiders Dick Cole, David Thatcher, Edwin Horton, Bill Bower and Thomas Griffin are in the James H. “Jimmy” Doolittle area of Special Collections.

At right, Griffin, Cole and Bower look at the Medal of Honor presented to Doolittle by President Franklin Roosevelt. Capacity audience enjoys Doolittle Raiders UTD visit as guests of McDermott Library’s Special Collections panel discussion about their remem- brances of the raid. The audience had the opportunity to ask questions. The Raiders and several authors then adjourned to an autograph room in the Conference Center to provide free auto- graphs. The UTD Bookstore sold various books about the Raid, including several by Col. Glines. The Collectors Club of Dallas organized a special envelope featuring the Raiders patch along with a U.S. Postal Service pictorial cancellation that com- memorated the day at UTD. Other key functions during the four- In one of the most highly successful Mitchell read a city proclamation declar- day event, including a banquet and busi- events organized by the History of Avia- ing April 19 as “Doolittle Raiders Day” in ness meeting, were held at The Frontiers tion Collection at McDermott Library in Richardson. of Flight Museum at Love Field and a recent years, the Special Collections De- He was followed by Rep. Fred Hill, luncheon at the Cavanaugh Flight Mu- partment welcomed the Doolittle Tokyo Texas House of Representatives, who pre- seum in Addison, Texas. The Frontiers of Raiders Association members and guests sented Texas state flags that were flown Flight served as the primary host of the re- during their 2008 annual gathering in Dal- over the Capitol in Austin on April 18, union. The 2008 Raiders reunion was las on Saturday, April 19, 2008. 2008 - the actual anniversary of the raid. sponsored in honor of Major John W. Her- As a part of their 66th anniversary of Larry Sall, Ph.D., Dean of Libraries at bert, U.S. Army Air Forces, World War II. the famous on in UTD, then described the events leading up UTD thanked Jan Collmer and Brinker In- April 1942, five surviving Raiders, wid- to the Doolittle raid with a presentation ti- ternational for support of the April 19th ows of other Raiders and family members tled “Prelude to the Raid.” festivities. visited the Archive in Author C.V. Glines, historian for the The Doolittle collection at UTD fea- Special Collections on the third floor of Doolittle Raiders and a regular member of tures artifacts, papers, books, photographs McDermott Library. the Special Collections aviation volun- and personal effects of the general. They also attended an invitation only teers, spoke about the Raiders Association This was the second consecutive meet- luncheon in their honor that featured and its history. He included a video pres- ing of the Raiders in Texas. In 2007 the keynote speaker Sam Johnson, U.S. House entation of the late Jimmy Doolittle who Raiders gathered in San Antonio as guests of Representatives. gave his personal perspective of the raid. of the Commemorative Air Force and the In a free public forum, a capacity audi- Raiders Richard E. Cole, William M. U.S. Air Force. ence of 500 people jammed the UTD Con- Bower, Thomas C. Griffin, Edward W. Seventy-three raiders survived the raid. ference Center. Richardson Mayor Steve Horton, and David J. Thatcher began a Eleven Raiders are still living.

C.V. Glines, historian for the Raiders and cura- Raider Richard Cole studies documents in the Col. John P. Doolittle, son of Gen. James H. tor of the Doolittle Archives at UTD, signs a Doolittle Archives as his daughter, Cindy, Doolittle, enjoys the festivities. copy of his book about the Doolittle Raid. shows an item to a U.S. Air Force attendant. New Blog eases the task This Braniff flight attendant is of viewing HAC photos shown quickly changing her In an effort to expand service to pa- older uniform into trons who cannot come into Special Col- a bright new outfit lections to do research, the department has in one of the company’s public- created a Blog to display images requested ity collages from by remote researchers. the 1960s. Spe- Previously, researchers had to rely on cial Collections is the staff to describe photos they might be home to Braniff Public Relations interested in using. Since we charge $8 archives. per scan plus shipping and handling, charges often mount up. Special Collec- tions staff worked on a solution for this hostesses in their futuristic, stylish Pucchi reputation of the HAC and provide expo- long-time problem. uniforms. These uniforms represent an ar- sure to an international audience. Paul Oelkrug, Coordinator for Special tifact of their time period, combining the Collections, approached Joan Aquatero, pop sensibility of the swinging 1960s with McDermott Library Information Technol- Doolittle Raiders envelopes the romance and glamour of air travel. ogy Supervisor, about the issue. Paul be- Both museums have chosen to feature im- raise $475 for archive lieved a secure webpage could be set up ages of Braniff hostess uniforms in their that would be password accessible and collections, but in different types of ex- Despite an oversight by the U.S. Postal where staff could load low resolution im- hibits. Service, the Collectors Club of Dallas ages for patrons to review before placing The National Air and Space Museum’s raised $475 from the Doolittle Tokyo an order. Joan suggested setting up a blog. exhibit is called “America by Air.” It Raiders cachet sales on April 19 that was It is fast and easy to set up, and is pass- traces the development of commercial avi- donated to the Jimmy Doolittle Archives word protected. ation, and the role it has played in Ameri- in Special Collections. The Blog is now in place and has been can History, from the pioneer days of The Collectors Club has long been af- used successfully on several occasions. early air mail routes to the high tech filiated with the Wineburgh Philatelic Re- Staff scan high resolution images and jumbo jets of today. Located in the mu- search Library in Special Collections. makes a low resolution copy to load on seum’s Mall building, the ex- The donation could have been more. the blog. The patron is emailed the user hibit is currently open. There is a UTD had requested the USPS to be set up and password information needed to ac- companion website to the exhibit that fea- by 1 p.m. and to expect business through 4 cess the Blog. The images are kept on the tures a host of information and interactive p.m. The USPS clerk arrived an hour late Blog for 24 hours. After that time, access activities available at at 2 p.m. The clerk had a few stamps and given to the patron is rescinded. http://www.nasm.si.edu/americabyair/. none of the required special cancellation One advantage is that Special Collec- The Victoria and Albert Museum, an devices to commemorate the Raiders visit! tions has a high resolution scan that can be important collection of artifacts from all So Collectors Club members Bob Ben- used for display on web pages, or used for periods of British history, is focusing on ner and Jim Doolin took subscriptions for displays in the department. The image is what the Braniff hostess uniforms meant people who wanted the cachet and cancel- also available for other patrons. in a slightly different context. Their forth- lations – even those who went through the So, thanks to Joan Aquatero, the Spe- coming exhibit is called “The Fashion of long line for autographs put up their cial Collections Department offers a new Fear: Clothing and the Cold War.” It will money and autographed covers with Bob and valuable service to our patrons. examine fashion as another weapon in the and Jim for cancelling later. war of ideologies between the West and The line stretched all the way from the HAC images on display the Soviet Union, which dominated much signing room on the south of the building in two notable museums of the second half of the 20th Century. across the wide lobby to the back of the The History of Aviation Collection is northeast corner Conference Center near By Thomas Allen, Curator proud to have had the opportunity to dis- the dock. The cachets were made by pre- play reproductions of our images in both mier Texas cachet printer Norman Cohen. This year the History of Aviation Col- of these exhibits. They will enhance the lection has had the opportunity to partici- pate in exhibits at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. and the Victoria and Albert Museum in Lon- don, England. One of the commonly requested sets of images from our collections are photo- graphs and color slides of Braniff Airways

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Editor ...... C.V. Glines Design & Contributor . . .Tom Koch Coordinator ...... Paul A. Oelkrug, C.A.