The Descriptive Finding Guide for the Paul Hebner Personal Papers SDASM.SC.10205
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San Diego Air and Space Museum Library and Archives
2018
2001 Pan American Plaza, Balboa Park
San Diego 92101
Collection material was sorted by subject within the following series designation.
SERIES I: Histories and memoirs
SERIES II: Audio-visual material (including photographs)
SERIES III: Correspondence and articles
Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
San Diego Air and Space Museum Library and Archives
Title: Paul H. Hebner Personal Papers
Identifier/Call Number: SDASM.SC.10205
Physical Description:
1.7 Cubic Feet
Materials include correspondence, histories, memoirs, photographs, audio-visual materials, and news clippings.
The collection consists of 5 boxes, measuring 1.7 cubic feet. The collection has been rehoused in archival containers. The
collection contains material in English.
Date (bulk): bulk
Abstract: Paul H. Hebner, born in Alameda, California in 1956, graduated from New York University in 1988. He has been a professional
writer for 32 years. He is the son of a U.S. Navy aviator/crewmember on a Martin Mariner PBM-5 flying boat who served during
the Korean conflict.
Physical Description: Description: The collection consists of 5 boxes, measuring 1.7 cubic feet. The collection has been rehoused in archival containers.
The collection contains material in English.
Contents: Materials include correspondence
Biographical / Historical
History
Paul H. Hebner, born in Alameda, California in 1956, graduated from New York University in 1988. He has been a professional
writer for 32 years. He is the son of a U.S. Navy aviator/crewmember on a Martin Mariner PBM-5 flying boat who served during
the Korean conflict. The Mariner/Marlin Association Newsletter publishes material and memoirs documenting the history of
the Navy’s two seaplanes, the Mariner (active during WW2 and the Korean conflict) and the Marlin (used in one 1967 engagement
in the Vietnam War).
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open to research.
Separated Materials
Note: Separated Materials
Issues of the Mariner/Marlin Association Newsletter are stored in the Museum Library, Annex.
Tube of historic aircraft prints and an original troubleshooting chart for a Martin Mariner were transferred to the Curatorial
Department.
Related Materials
Magazines – Mariner/Marlin Association Newsletter. Transferred to the Museum Library Magazine Collection.
Year Vol Iss
Winter 2007 24 1
Spring 2007 24 2
Fall 2007 24 4
Winter 2008 25 1
Summer 2008 25 3
Winter 2008 25 4
Spring 2009 26 1
Summer 2009 26 2
Fall 2009 27 3
Summer 2010 29 2
Spring 2011 30 1
Summer 2011 30 2
Fall 2011 30 3
Winter 2011 30 4
Summer 2012 31 2
Fall 2012 31 3
Winter 2012 31 4
Spring 2013 32 1
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Martin PBM Mariner
Martin P5M Marlin
Mariner/Merlin Association
VPB-17
VPB-208
VPB-44/VP-44
Lambert Field NAS, St. Louis
NAS Banana River
Hebner, Paul
Box 1 of 5 Series I: Histories and Memoirs
Folder 1:1 – VPB-204 History, part 1
Folder 1:2 – VPB-204 History, part 2
Folder 1:3 – VPB-204 History, part 3
Folder 1:4 – Histories and articles (1) “Blinded in Texas” VP-661, Sept. 1950 Korean War recall [Gaylord E. “Hap” Hill]; (2) “NAS
Pensacola...Mainside” [fragment]; (3) “The War from Guantanamo,” pp. 325-336; (4) A detailed account of the 1st air-sea rescue
in the heartland of Japan, Kobe Harbor 24 July 1945, Submitted to the honorable Sue Kelly, U.S. Congresswoman, by David C.
Quinn. Includes correspondence re request for award of Silver Star to Quinn and two other surviving members of the crew.
Folder 1:5 – Sunderlands of the South: The Story of 40 Squadron Royal Australian Air Force 1944-1946, by Len Lindorff (1993).
Spiral bound, self-published.
Folder 1:6 – History of Patrol Bombing Squadron 28 from Burt Benson. Includes correspondence.
Folder 1:7 – Historical material for newsletter issue. Includes correspondence re PBM’s on mission to drop surrender terms
on Wake Island, August 28, 1945.
Box 2 of 5 Series I: Histories and Memoirs
Folder 2:1 – Scrapbook of Robert Brandon: VPB-20 Squadron & those Magnificent Flying Boats, the PBM Mariner. Photocopy.
Folder 2:2 – Memoirs: Sea stories
Folder 2:3 – U.S. Navy Patrol Bombing Squadron 26 Memories Book
Folder 2:4 – Memoirs: various
Physical Description: (1) Just Below the Angels, the Granddaddys (Hap Hill memoir, May 1988) (2) Return to GMTO (3) Hap Hill An Evening of Glasnost
(August 1990) (4) Hap Hill Patrol Squadron 210 (5) VP 731 booklet, Ted R. Heineman. Signed by author, 1994. (6) SUBJ: Silver
Stars – Request For (Mariner Newsletter, 1989)
Folder 2:5 - Memories, World War 2 1941-1946 Lt. Commander Robert Scarff (2 copies, spiral binding)
Box 3 of 5 –Series II: Audio-visual material: Photographs (with correspondence)
Folders 3:1 through 3:6 – Photographs. See inventory.
Folder 3:7 – Audio-visual material
Physical Description: (1) PBM-3 Mariner 1st flight 1975 CD (2) The Story of the Kreit: Tigers & Snakes documentary DVD (3) Oceanside 2013-2014 Calendar
Folder 3:8 – Histories of patrol bombings (oversize)
Folder 3.9 – Correspondence
Folder 3.10 – Correspondence
Box 4 of 5 – Series III: Correspondence and articles
Folder 4:1 through 4:5 – Correspondence and articles. Includes memoirs and research articles.
Box 5 of 5 – Series III: Correspondence and articles
Folders 5:1 through 5:3 – Articles. Include memoirs, newspaper clippings, certificate of service.
Folder 5:4 – Newsletters, 1942-1943
Folder 5:5 – Newsletters and news clippings Include in memoria, obituaries; material re NAS Banana River, FL; photocopies.
Folder 5:6 – 2001 Reunion program, Patrol Squadron 44.
Folder 5:6 – 2001 Reunion program, Patrol Squadron 44.
