Williams (James) Personal Papers

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Williams (James) Personal Papers

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Box 01

Folder 01 – Orders: Special, General, Personnel 1944

Scope and Contents

55 pages, 44 documents including duplicates. Orders regard various topics including duty details, shipments, assignment orders, discharge and commission notices.

Folder 02 – Orders: Special, General 1945-1953

Scope and Contents

52 pages, 18 documents, including some duplicates. Orders regard various topics including medal recipients and relocation orders.

Folder 03 – Correspondence and Messages to J.S. Williams

Scope and Contents

10 pages, 10 documents, including envelops, reappointment letters, and mostly military correspondence.

Folder 04 – Various Military Documents and Records

Separated Materials

41 pages, 29 documents, including activity reports, purchase items, outline of officer classification system, qualification data, Air Force Reserve Inventory Questionnaire, and photocopies of fragile documents.

Folder 05 – Radio Compass Lecture and Notes

Scope and Contents

58 pages of notes, mostly handwritten, pages seem to be drawn from two different notebooks but have been left in the original order.

Folder 06 – Sheets with Lecture and Notes

Scope and Contents

18 pages, 13 documents of sheets, charts, notes and drawings that were originally placed in Radio Compass Lecture and Notes documents with no discernible order.

Folder 07 – Packets and Records

Scope and Contents

53 pages, 2 documents, Allied Records and form records for James S. Williams.

Folder 08 – Maps and Illustrations

Scope and Contents

15 pages, 7 documents, Constellations and Pointer System of Navigation Stars, Army Air Forces Pre-Flight School Weather Map Symbols, Explanation of Weather Code Figures and Symbols and Cloud Chart, map of the United States with drawn routes, map New York Radio Range Courses, “AAF Navigation School Selman Field Monroe, LA, Star Chart,” USAAF Special Air Navigation Chart Caroline Islands to Japan with drawn charted routes from 1944-1945.

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