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Last Respects Portrait Mar 2019

Last Respects Portrait

Raoul Lufbery Newspapers

A photograph from a newspaper of soldiers attending Major Raoul Lufbery's grave. Text below the document "LAST RESPECTS. Gen. Clarence Edwards, commanding the 26th division at the foot of the grave of Maj. Raoul Lufbery near Toul."


The Lafayette Escadrille, John Knox Mar 2019

The Lafayette Escadrille, John Knox

Raoul Lufbery Newspapers

A newspaper article about Major Raoul Lufbery's time as a member of the La Fayette Escadrille, which was a U.S. flying unit under French command at the time.


Luftbery, With Engine Stopped Eludes Four Hostile Airplanes Mar 2019

Luftbery, With Engine Stopped Eludes Four Hostile Airplanes

Raoul Lufbery Newspapers

A short newspaper article about Raoul Lufbery escaping enemy planes with his engine stopping from a punctured gas pipe.


Maj. Lufbery American Air King Killed Mar 2019

Maj. Lufbery American Air King Killed

Raoul Lufbery Newspapers

A newspaper article detailing the death of Major Raoul Lufbery. The article also details his record number of enemy kills during his career.


Lufbery Vanquished In A Battle With Huge German Plane Mar 2019

Lufbery Vanquished In A Battle With Huge German Plane

Raoul Lufbery Newspapers

A newspaper article detailing Major Raoul Lufbery's final skirmish with the German Army. The article includes interviews with Lufbery's family.


Hagerstown Man Was With Famous Ace Six Months On French Battle Front Mar 2019

Hagerstown Man Was With Famous Ace Six Months On French Battle Front

Raoul Lufbery Newspapers

A newspaper article profiling the relationship of the "only recruited man who was a pallbearer at the funeral of Raoul Lufbery". Maximilian Bono was a soldier of orderly that was assigned to Major Lufbery as a personal servant.


Exploits Of America's Fist Air Ace, Michael Hull Mar 2019

Exploits Of America's Fist Air Ace, Michael Hull

Raoul Lufbery Newspapers

A newspaper article complete with official U.S. Air Force photos profiling Major Raoul Lufbery as a decorated pilot and flying ace.


The Sky Raiders, Paul Whelton Mar 2019

The Sky Raiders, Paul Whelton

Raoul Lufbery Newspapers

A newspaper article about Major Raoul Lufbery's exploits as a fighter pilot for the United States Army. Of note, this includes the "Roll of Honor" which is a list of pilots killed in action. Major Lufbery is one of the pilots on this list.


Lufbery Off To Front In Air Service, Gervais Raoul Lufbery Mar 2019

Lufbery Off To Front In Air Service, Gervais Raoul Lufbery

Raoul Lufbery Newspapers

A newspaper article that published some of Major Raoul Lufbery's autobiographical writing discussing how he enlisted for war as well as how his career began.


Has Wallingford Forgotten? Major Raoul Lufbery: America's First Flying Ace Of World War I Mar 2019

Has Wallingford Forgotten? Major Raoul Lufbery: America's First Flying Ace Of World War I

Raoul Lufbery Newspapers

A newspaper article detailing the life and career of ace fighter pilot Major Raoul Lufbery. Several photographs are included from across his life.


Lufbery, 'American Ace' Writes Of His Pleasure Flying For Gen. Pershing, Gervais Raoul Lufbery Mar 2019

Lufbery, 'American Ace' Writes Of His Pleasure Flying For Gen. Pershing, Gervais Raoul Lufbery

Raoul Lufbery Newspapers

A newspaper article publishing a letter written by Major Raoul Lufbery to a friend. The article also included information about his life and career as a pilot.


Lufbery Cut Leave To Fly To His Death Mar 2019

Lufbery Cut Leave To Fly To His Death

Raoul Lufbery Newspapers

A multi-part newspaper article about Major Raoul Lufbery final aerial dogfight, his life childhood and early life, and his enlistment in the army.


On The Eve Of His Last Flight Mar 2019

On The Eve Of His Last Flight

Raoul Lufbery Newspapers

A newspaper article originally from The Harvard Bulletin publishing a letter from Lieutenant Kenneth P. Culbert, a pilot who died shortly after Lufbery was shot down. In Culbert's letter to Professor C.T. Copeland he described his final evening as well as what it was like to attend Major Lufbery.


French 'Ace' Like Story Hero Mar 2019

French 'Ace' Like Story Hero

Raoul Lufbery Newspapers

A newspaper story about the life and travels of Major Raoul Lufbery spanning from his birth in France to an American father and French Mother, to becoming an ace pilot.


Brisbane's Editorial On Lufbery Mar 2019

Brisbane's Editorial On Lufbery

Raoul Lufbery Newspapers

A newspaper editorial that was originally published in the Washington Times, detailing the story of Raoul Lufbery from his childhood in Connecticut through the end of his life as an ace pilot.


American Wins Thrilling Duel High In The Air Mar 2019

American Wins Thrilling Duel High In The Air

Raoul Lufbery Newspapers

A newspaper article about Raoul Lufbery winning an aerial duel with a German adversary. Raoul Lufbery is listed here as "George R. Lufbery".


Editorial Of The Day Mar 2019

Editorial Of The Day

Raoul Lufbery Newspapers

A short newspaper article discussing Major Raoul Lufbery's life, exploits, and recent death.


Major Raoul Lufbery Predicts Big Battles Between Air Fleets Mar 2019

Major Raoul Lufbery Predicts Big Battles Between Air Fleets

Raoul Lufbery Newspapers

A two page newspaper article interviewing Raoul Lufbery where he discusses his predictions for the end of the war. He specifically highlights the growing importance of airplanes. "aviation in all [the Armed Forces] branches will undoubtedly play it's big role, and certainly a larger role than ever before..."


American Flyer Brings Down His 12th Enemy Plane Mar 2019

American Flyer Brings Down His 12th Enemy Plane

Raoul Lufbery Newspapers

A newspaper article discussing the twelfth German plane that Raoul Lufbery shot out of the sky.


Extracts From Actual Letters Received Byt The Bureau Of War Risk Insurance Apr 2016

Extracts From Actual Letters Received Byt The Bureau Of War Risk Insurance

Fred F. Marshall Ephemera

A list of unintentionally humorous sentences from letters received by the Bureau of War Risk Insurance in Washington D.C.


Memoranda Of Materials And Tasks Apr 2016

Memoranda Of Materials And Tasks

Fred F. Marshall Ephemera

A memoranda on stationary from the Office of The Military Attache American Legation at the The Hague in the Netherlands. The memoranda contains a list of materials to tasks to be completed.


Fred F. Marshall Address Apr 2016

Fred F. Marshall Address

Fred F. Marshall Ephemera

A piece of paper with Fred Marshall's post office address in Paris, France.


Complimentary Pass To The Top Of The Highest Building In The World Apr 2016

Complimentary Pass To The Top Of The Highest Building In The World

Fred F. Marshall Ephemera

A complimentary pass to the men in United States Army or Navy Uniform permitting admittance to the Observation Gallery of the Woolworth Building for five cents.


Paris Metro Map Apr 2016

Paris Metro Map

Fred F. Marshall Ephemera

A metro map of Paris which includes a list of multiple routes on the back.


Wanted For Murder, William Hohenzollern & Co Apr 2016

Wanted For Murder, William Hohenzollern & Co

Fred F. Marshall Ephemera

Card with a drawing of a man in a picklehelm with the accompanying text "Wanted for Murder William Hohenzollern & Co WholeSale Butchers". There is also some handwriting on both sides of the card in French and English.


Jerzy Lubelfeld Interview For The Survivors Of The Holocaust Oral History Project, Jerzy Lubelfeld, Carole Erich Jun 1981

Jerzy Lubelfeld Interview For The Survivors Of The Holocaust Oral History Project, Jerzy Lubelfeld, Carole Erich

Emmanuel Ringelblum Collection of Oral History Memoirs of the Holocaust (MS-215)

On June 10, 1981 Carole Erich interview Dr. Jerzy Lubelfeld about his life before, during, and after World War II. In his interview Luberfeld discusses growing up in Warsaw, his parent's occupations, and his family history. Luberfeld also speaks at length about the prevailing attitudes about World War I by the Polish and Polish history in general. Later in this interview Luberfeld recounds being taken a prisoner of war by the German Army. Towards the end of his interview, Luberfeld coming to America, meeting his wife, and his life in the states.


Helga Silbermann Interview For The Survivors Of The Holocaust Oral History Project, Helga Silbermann, Rose Mary Lawson Jan 1979

Helga Silbermann Interview For The Survivors Of The Holocaust Oral History Project, Helga Silbermann, Rose Mary Lawson

Emmanuel Ringelblum Collection of Oral History Memoirs of the Holocaust (MS-215)

On January 25th, 1979, Rose Mary Lawson interviewe Helga Silbermann about her life before, during, and after World War II. In her interview Silbermann discusses being her early childhood in Berlin, Germany, her family history, and her religious background. Over the course of the interview she details how she began hiding from the Gestapo in Berlin and staying in a variety of places with different people that she knew or met. Towards the end of the interview Silbermann talks about coming to America, how she felt about the country, and how she eventually arrived in Dayton.


American Commission To Negotiate Peace Card Jul 1919

American Commission To Negotiate Peace Card

Fred F. Marshall Ephemera

A card entitling it's bearer to acess to the roof of the Hotel de Crillon signed by Secretary General, J.C. Grew.


How Lufbery, America's Greatest Ace, Was Killed May 1919

How Lufbery, America's Greatest Ace, Was Killed

Raoul Lufbery Newspapers

A newspaper article detailing the events leading up to the day Major Raoul Lufbery died in combat and the immediate aftermath by his comrades in the Army.


Dayton Boy Military Attache At The Hague Feb 1919

Dayton Boy Military Attache At The Hague

Fred F. Marshall Newspapers

Newspaper article about a letter from Fred Marshall to his sister about being appointed to the American Legation at the Hague. He discusses why he was sought by the American Legation and more.