Physical Description: 0.03 Linear Feet(2 folders)
Language of Material: English.
Arrangement
The photographs have been kept in their original order. Many photographs were kept in an envelope, three photographs loose
from rest of the collection, and one panoramic unit photo was kept with the military records.
Scope and Contents
This series contains photographs of and relating to LtCol. Albert W. Dillon, USAAF during his work at the Big Springs Army
Air Forces Bombardier School during the Second World War.
The photographs were contained inside of a pictorial souvenir envelope for Big Spring Army Air Field, Texas, and includes
a yearbook and large postcard for the Army Air Forces Bombardier School there. The photos include four unit/class photos,
one photo of Dillon showing cadets how to operate a machine, and one of Dillon looking inside a training cockpit with another
officer.
The first unit photo, from July 1943, has names typed across the soldiers and written on the back, and includes:
Donald C. Rhoades, Marvin Johnson, Thomas W. Stallworth, Ira Lauderdale, Ernest Coverdill [Cavendill?], Albert W. Dillon,
Homer Fields, Edward A. Fredrickson, Kindred, Lowell Bowen, Jorgenson, Ernie Johnson, France [?], Roscoe Booth, Max E. Turner,
Kenchital.
The second unit photo, from summer 1944, also has names typed with written words on an afixed piece of white paper, and include:
Hopkins, Kenchital, Dickerson, Fredrickson, Bowen, Booth, Stallworth, Johnson, Scholtzhau, Brody, Johnson, Endicott, Schubert,
Lannery, Krobs, Coverdill, Fields, Snodgrass, Rhoads, Wade, Stadlewort, Williams, Dillon, Bryant.
Also included is one ticket for Dillon granting entry to the Officer's Mess at the training school in Big Spring, signed by
the officer in charge, Charles E. Sparks.