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Airpower Prophets: Giulio Douhet, Billy Mitchell And Hugh Trenchard, Bob Berlin 2012 Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Airpower Prophets: Giulio Douhet, Billy Mitchell And Hugh Trenchard, Bob Berlin

ERAU Prescott Aviation History Program

Three airpower prophets from three nations created the concept of strategic bombing and advocated independent air forces. Their theories shaped military aviation for all time. Hear about their lives, controversies, courts martial and lasting influence.


Session A-1: The Cuban Missile Crisis: Understanding The Impact Of Personality On Leadership, Lee Eysturlid 2012 Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

Session A-1: The Cuban Missile Crisis: Understanding The Impact Of Personality On Leadership, Lee Eysturlid

Professional Learning Day

This session will explore the impact of the various types of personalities that were involved in the Cuban Missile Crisis. These differences had a direct impact on the way each leader reacted to the stresses and demands of the crisis as well as their own political objectives. Attendees will come away with an immediately teachable topic on world leadership and the Cuban Crisis as an event.


164th Infantry News: March 2012, 164th Infantry Association 2012 University of North Dakota

164th Infantry News: March 2012, 164th Infantry Association

164th Infantry Regiment Publications

March 2012 edition of the 164th Infantry News. A total of 56 pages, containing news articles, event notices, photographs, and personal memories from the veterans of the 164th Infantry Regiment.


Bowling Green Civil War Round Table (Bylaws Revised), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2012 Western Kentucky University

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table (Bylaws Revised), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (March 2012), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2012 Western Kentucky University

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (March 2012), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter

No abstract provided.


The Avenger - March-May 2012, Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale Museum 2012 Nova Southeastern University

The Avenger - March-May 2012, Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale Museum

The Avenger

No abstract provided.


“No Man’S Land”: Fairy Tales, Gender, Socialization, Satire, And Trauma During The First And Second World Wars, Dawn Heerspink 2012 Grand Valley State University

“No Man’S Land”: Fairy Tales, Gender, Socialization, Satire, And Trauma During The First And Second World Wars, Dawn Heerspink

Grand Valley Journal of History

No abstract provided.


Fulkerson, Edwin Pierce, 1922-2015 (Sc 2509), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2012 Western Kentucky University

Fulkerson, Edwin Pierce, 1922-2015 (Sc 2509), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2509. Letters from Edwin Pierce Fulkerson, Germany, to his parents, Elmer M. and Nora Fulkerson, and uncle, Jesse Fulkerson, Sonora, Kentucky, in which he details his life in the military during World War II. Includes wartime log and other memorabilia documenting Fulkerson’s imprisonment in a German stalag during World War II, as well as Ben H. Phelper’s published and illustrated reminiscences from the same prison.


Civil War, 1861-1865 - Papers (Sc 371), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2012 Western Kentucky University

Civil War, 1861-1865 - Papers (Sc 371), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid, scans and typescripts (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 371. Correspondence, 1862-1863 (8), and pardon, 1864, of Union soldiers from the Kentucky counties of Hopkins and McLean; official program for Soldiers’ Reunion in Evansville, Indiana, 1887; and words of a Union song.


Trust, But Verify: Reagan, Gorbachev, And The Inf Treaty, William D. Watson 2012 Western Michigan University

Trust, But Verify: Reagan, Gorbachev, And The Inf Treaty, William D. Watson

The Hilltop Review

This paper is a discussion of the relationship between the deployment of two types of intermediate (medium) range missile systems in Europe, how leaders on both sides viewed the situation, and how the potential use of such weapons affected superpower relations during the last decade of the Cold War.


Kelly, Walter Mynatt, 1931-1994 (Sc 2506), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2012 Western Kentucky University

Kelly, Walter Mynatt, 1931-1994 (Sc 2506), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2506. Letters from Walter M. Kelly, serving in the Korean War, to his girlfriend Lois Bushman, Fort Worth, Texas, in which he talks about his family and interactions on the military base in Korea.


Brown, Archie Lee, 1897-1989 (Sc 2504), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2012 Western Kentucky University

Brown, Archie Lee, 1897-1989 (Sc 2504), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2504. Letter, 10 February 1919, from Archie L. Brown, serving in France during World War I, to his father J. L. Brown, Rockport, Kentucky, in which he inquires about home.


Parnell, Willard Shelby, 1918-1984 (Sc 2507), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2012 Western Kentucky University

Parnell, Willard Shelby, 1918-1984 (Sc 2507), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2507. World War II service records for Willard Shelby Parnell, Perry County, Tennessee, and Jean Walker Sr., Wayne County, Tennessee. Includes discharge papers for both and several flight records for Walker.


Davenport, Bowman, Jr., 1927-2003 (Sc 2508), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2012 Western Kentucky University

Davenport, Bowman, Jr., 1927-2003 (Sc 2508), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2508. Letters from Bowman Davenport, Jr., while serving in the U.S. Army at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, to his mother Margaret L. Davenport , Bowling Green, Kentucky, in which he inquires about home and mentions his interactions on the military base.


York, John Thomas, 1926-1961 (Sc 2505), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2012 Western Kentucky University

York, John Thomas, 1926-1961 (Sc 2505), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2505. Letter from John T. York, serving in the Korean War, to his sister Virginia York, Murl, Kentucky, in which he inquires about his family and briefly mentions a shelling at his camp.


Civil War, 1861-1865 - Letters (Sc 364), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2012 Western Kentucky University

Civil War, 1861-1865 - Letters (Sc 364), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 364. Photocopies of Civil War letters (3), 1862, 1864, n.d. The letters were written from camps in Tennessee and Georgia by soldiers from Illinois. Includes letter relative to above letters, 1971.


Boutcher, Robert M., 1912-1975 (Sc 250), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2012 Western Kentucky University

Boutcher, Robert M., 1912-1975 (Sc 250), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 250. V-mail letter to Mr. and Mrs. William Kelly, Maceo, Kentucky, from Robert Boutcher, written during his military service in Italy. Boutcher thanks them for a Christmas gift and comments briefly on his unit’s aerial combat activities.


Mitchell, Eleonore Beck (Fa 70), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2012 Western Kentucky University

Mitchell, Eleonore Beck (Fa 70), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 70. “History of ROTC.” Collection contains interviews, field notes indexes and cassettes of project completed with Frank Allen Minner by Eleonore Beck Mitchell. Collection was completed for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University. Interview covers topics such as the history of ROTC, the ROTC program at Western Kentucky University, recruitment, and differences in training between ROTC and military academies.


Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (Feb. 2012), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2012 Western Kentucky University

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (Feb. 2012), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Hay, Vincent Smiley, 1808-1863 (Sc 352), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2012 Western Kentucky University

Hay, Vincent Smiley, 1808-1863 (Sc 352), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 352. Agreement to teach school, 1829; Civil War letter written from camp near Corinth, Mississippi, 1862; manuscript book which contains record of John F. Hines’ estate of which Hay was administrator, 1859 – noted is commissioner’s fee for selling slave, 1861, and writings of Rebecca Hay Gray on various subjects—spiritualism, religion, friendship, etc., and recipes, 1876-1881.


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