The Descriptive Finding Guide for Leonard S. Reinhart Personal Papers SDASM.SC.10217

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San Diego Air and Space Museum Library and Archives
2018
2001 Pan American Plaza, Balboa Park
San Diego 92101


Language of Material: English
Contributing Institution: San Diego Air and Space Museum Library and Archives
Title: Leonard S. Reinhart Personal Papers
Identifier/Call Number: SDASM.SC.10217
Physical Description: .33 Cubic Feet Content notes: The collection contains items reflecting Mr. Reinhart's time in the military, and primarily relate to his maintenance work on the B-17 aircraft and other related airplanes. Included are maintenance manuals, airplane specification reports, materials created by Mr. Reinhart during training classes, diagrams and miscellaneous military notes and correspondence. The collection consists of one gray archival box, 12 x 5 x 10-1/2 inches.
Date (bulk): bulk
Abstract: Leonard Sylvester Reinhart was born November 22, 1919 in Bascom, Ohio. Leonard had six siblings and they all grew up and were schooled in Ohio. Leonard enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Forces on December 18, 1942, and was trained to maintain the B-17 aircraft, serving the majority of his military time at Amarillo Field, Amarillo, Texas. The materials in this collection were gathered during his military service. He was a farmer and worked in machine shops in his non- military years. He married Mildred M. Schmitz and they had three children. He passed away at age 55 on December 2, 1974 in Kane, Pennsylvania.
Physical Description: Description: The collection consists of one gray archival box, 12 x 5 x 10-1/2 inches. Content notes: The collection contains items reflecting Mr. Reinhart's time in the military, and primarily relate to his maintenance work on the B-17 aircraft and other related airplanes. Included are maintenance manuals, airplane specification reports, materials created by Mr. Reinhart during training classes, diagrams and miscellaneous military notes and correspondence.

Biographical / Historical

Leonard Sylvester Reinhart was born November 22, 1919 in Bascom, Ohio. Leonard had six siblings and they all grew up and were schooled in Ohio. Leonard enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Forces on December 18, 1942, and was trained to maintain the B-17 aircraft, serving the majority of his military time at Amarillo Field, Amarillo, Texas. The materials in this collection were gathered during his military service. He was a farmer and worked in machine shops in his non- military years. He married Mildred M. Schmitz and they had three children. He passed away at age 55 on December 2, 1974 in Kane, Pennsylvania.

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open to research, some restriction apply.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

The collection was donated to the Museum.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Amarillo Army Air Field
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress Family
Reinhart, Leonard

 

Series I: Documents

 

Folder 1 -- U.S. Army Air Forces Training Material

Physical Description: 1. Visual Inspection Systems for Airplanes, September 20, 1942. 2. Flight Reports. 3. Maintenance Inspection Record, Air Corps Form 41-B, January 1, 1942, Tentative (2 copies). 4. Miscellaneous B-17 Training Material
 

Folder 2 -- B-17 Training Material

Physical Description: 1. Aircraft Propellers, Crew Chief Instructions First Day, March 17, 1943. 2. Precautions for Riggers. 3. Preflight and Daily Inspections Form. 4. Miscellaneous B-17 Training Documents and Plans.
 

Folder 3 -- B-17 Hydraulics

Physical Description: 1. Handwritten training notes. 2. Descriptive Material 3. B-17 blueprints.
 

Folder 4 – Amarillo Field Stationery

 

Folder 5 – Manuals

Physical Description: 1. “Soldier’s Handbook,” Basic Field Manual, War Department, #FM 21-100, July 23, 1941. 2. “Silhouette Handbook of United States Army Air Forces Airplanes,” September 1942. 3. “Exercises on Maintenance and Inspection Forms,” Army Air Forces Technical School, #M-AB-C-2, April 8, 1943.
 

Folder 6 – Airplane Mechanics School

Physical Description: Exercises, study guides, handwritten notes for Amarillo Army Air Field, 1943.