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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Raoul Lufbery Newspapers

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

Scott, James Mcmillian, 1870-1907 (Mss 628), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 628. Letters of James McMillian Scott, a native of Cumberland County, Kentucky, to Sarah Elizabeth “Ellie” Garnett of Adair County, Kentucky, written before and after their marriage. Frequently separated from his wife because of his work on his family’s Texas farm and his editorial positions on newspapers in Texas, Kentucky and Arkansas, Scott writes of his family, his social and religious activities, his Spanish-American War service, and his newspaper work. He is frequently resentful of local attacks on his reputation arising from unspecified indiscretions committed while living in Kentucky. Full-text scans of several Spanish-American War …

Forward Myth: Military Public Relations And The Domestic Base Newspaper 1941-1981, Willie R. Tubbs

Dissertations

This dissertation explores the evolution of domestic military base newspapers from 1941-1981, a timeframe that encapsulates the Second World War, Korean War, and Vietnam War, as well as interwar and postwar years. While called “newspapers,” the United States military designed these publications to be a hybrid of traditional news and public relations. This dissertation focuses on three primary aspects of these newspapers: the evolution of the format, style, and function of these papers; the messages editors and writers crafted for and about the “common” soldier and American; and the messages for and about members of the non-majority group.

Sometimes printed …

Missouri Democrat [St. Louis], January-December 1864, Vicki Betts

By Title

Selected articles from the Missouri Democrat, published in St. Louis, Missouri, taken from the period January through December, 1864.

Mobile Daily Register, January-June 1860, Vicki Betts

By Title

Selected articles from the Mobile Daily Register, published in Mobile, Alabama, covering the months January through December, 1860.

Smith, Elvin, Jr. - Collector (Mss 534), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection MSS 534. Collected research of Elvin Smith, Jr. relating to the Civil War in Kentucky and consisting mostly of typescripted soldiers’ diaries and letters. Also includes compiled data on regiments stationed in Bowling Green, Kentucky and at Lost River Cave near Bowling Green, and lists of soldiers’ deaths at Bowling Green.

Tolle Collection (Mss 524), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 524. Correspondence and papers of the Tolle family of Barren County, Kentucky. Includes data on the Tolle, Snoddy and Bransford families, William Daniel Tolle’s history of Barren County, and materials relating to his work as a veteran’s pension claims agent.

Causey, Alonzo M., 1870-1972 (Sc 622), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 622. Correspondence and clippings of letters written to newspaper editors and various people by Alonzo M. Causey of Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1935-1972 (39) and letter and press conference summary written in French and sent in reply to letter of Causey’s to Charles de Gaulle, 1966 (4). Click on "Additional Files" below to see Spanish-American War related material in this small collection.

Ua64/25/5/3 College Of Education & Behavioral Sciences Military Science Student Organizations 321st Detachment, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Publications created by and about the 321st Detachment of Army Air Force cadets.

Camp Newspaper For The Houlton Pow Camp And The Sub-Camps Seboomok, Spencer Lake And Princeton, Issue 1, December 1944, Camp Houlton

Maine POW Collection

The first issue of the camp newsletter printed at the Houlton POW camp in December, 1944. Text in German.

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.

The Last Photograph Taken Of Maj. Raoul Lufbery, The Late American Ace

Raoul Lufbery Newspapers

A photograph from a newspaper of Major Raoul Lufbery. Text below the photograph "The last photograph taken of Maj. [sic]Taoul Lufbery, the late American Ace."