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Box 3922.001

 Container

Contains 3 Collections and/or Records:

Air Mission Diary

 File — Box: 3922.001, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The diary was used by Emmett Dendy, a gunner with the Eighth Air Force's 467th Bomb Group flying B-24s, to record his 22 air missions, from 24 February to 25 April 1945. Each entry includes information about the target, bomb load, bomb run, flak, time, gas, and altitude. He also included remarks concerning each mission. The diary also includes names and addresses of other soldiers, presumably other members of his crew. In May 2010, Dendy added an additional mission - an Honor Flight for WWII...
Dates: 1943-2010; Majority of material found in 1945 - 1945

Photograph

 File — Box: 3922.001, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The diary was used by Emmett Dendy, a gunner with the Eighth Air Force's 467th Bomb Group flying B-24s, to record his 22 air missions, from 24 February to 25 April 1945. Each entry includes information about the target, bomb load, bomb run, flak, time, gas, and altitude. He also included remarks concerning each mission. The diary also includes names and addresses of other soldiers, presumably other members of his crew. In May 2010, Dendy added an additional mission - an Honor Flight for WWII...
Dates: 1943-2010; Majority of material found in 1945 - 1945

Miscellaneous Articles (photocopies)

 File — Box: 3922.001, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The diary was used by Emmett Dendy, a gunner with the Eighth Air Force's 467th Bomb Group flying B-24s, to record his 22 air missions, from 24 February to 25 April 1945. Each entry includes information about the target, bomb load, bomb run, flak, time, gas, and altitude. He also included remarks concerning each mission. The diary also includes names and addresses of other soldiers, presumably other members of his crew. In May 2010, Dendy added an additional mission - an Honor Flight for WWII...
Dates: 1943-2010; Majority of material found in 1945 - 1945