The Snapshots in Time Collection
Gallery: Part 1
Newspaper clippings, gunnery memoranda, flight report forms, and base handbooks from the Pat McAleer collection follow a Marine Corsair pilot from wartime training through the Korean War recall of Bay Area reserve units. Together they balance the hazards of aerial combat and training accidents against the quieter administrative texture of life on a Marine air station.
U.S. Navy Daily Flight Inspection Form (Form N. Aer. 3119), McAleer Collection
U.S. Navy Daily Flight Inspection Form (Form N. Aer. 3119), Blank Maintenance Checklist
U.S. Navy Aircraft Pre-Flight Inspection Checklist, Page 15 (Yellow Carbon Copy)
U.S. Navy Aircraft Flight Report ('Yellow Sheet') Form, Pat McAleer Collection
WWII U.S. Navy 'Fighter Director Vocabulary' Brevity Code Reference Sheet (Restricted)
Newspaper Clipping: 'Marine Lieutenant Killed in Crash' – 2nd Lt. Charles Lowry McCallister, MCAS Goleta
Temporary Drivers Permit, VMF-441, Issued to 2nd Lt. E.P. McAleer, 16 May 1944
American Red Cross First Aid Certificate, Aviation Cadet E. P. McAleer, USNR, December 1, 1942
Kern County Civilian Defense Council Driver ID Card, Edward P. McAleer, WWII Home Front
Newspaper Clipping: 'Pipefuls' Column Featuring Captain Bill Baldwin, WWII Hometown News Feature
United States Marine Corps Training Memorandum: 'Deflection Shooting,' Marine Fighting Squadron 112 (Forming), Santa Barbara, California
Newspaper Clipping: WWII Fighter Plane Crash Survivors, Southwest Pacific (McAleer Collection)
USMCAS Cherry Point Medical Department Aviation Training Card, 1st Lt. F.P. McAleer, 1945
Commissioned Officer's Mess Membership Card, MCAS Cherry Point, North Carolina, 1945
Western Union Telegram to 1st Lt. E. P. McAleer, 16 March 1945
Newspaper Clipping: 'Two Newsmen Wounded in Korea Ambush' (United Press Dispatch, September 4)
Newspaper Clippings Chronicling the Marine Corps Career of Lt. Edward Potter McAleer
Vintage 'Seashore Route' Bus Ticket, Morehead City, North Carolina — Pat McAleer Collection
Wedding Invitation of Joan Mary Berry to Lt. John Theodore Straub, USMCR
Newspaper Clipping: 'Stars in the Home Town Service Flag' – Marine 1st Lt. Edward P. McAleer, Corsair Pilot, Marshall Islands
Newspaper Clipping: 'ON LEAVE -- Ensign Pat Curran,' Bakersfield Californian, WWII Era
Newspaper Clipping: 'PROMOTED — Marine First Lieutenant Edward P. McAleer,' WWII Corsair Pilot
Letter of Commendation from Major General V. E. Megee, USMC, to Captain Edward P. McAleer, Marine Corps Air Station El Toro
WWII Multi-Forwarded Correspondence Postcard, 'Portale del Gaggini,' Agrigento, Sicily - Pat McAleer Collection
Newspaper Clipping: '3 Bay Marine Units Recalled' -- Korean War Mobilization Article, Pat McAleer Collection
Typed Officer Embarkation Equipment List, "Uniform and Equipment to Be Worn by All Officers Going Aboard Ship"
Newspaper Clipping: 'Reconversion' Poem, HQ China Wing ATC, WWII CBI Theater (McAleer Collection)
USMC Information Bulletin Cover, Marine Barracks Quantico, Virginia, 1 September 1944
Title Page: 'Bulletin of Information for Officers Reporting for Duty at Marine Barracks, Quantico, Virginia,' 1 September 1944
General Index Page, Marine Corps Post Orientation Booklet
Booklet Page 1: 'Early History, Acquisition and Development of the Marine Corps Station at Quantico'
Printed Command History Booklet, Pages 4-5: Early Aeronautical History of Marine Barracks, Quantico, Virginia
Quantico Marine Corps Base History Booklet, Pages 6-7
Printed Officer's Guide, Pages 10–11, Marine Corps Base Quantico Quarters & Housing Regulations (Pat McAleer Collection)
Marine Corps Post Officer Orientation Booklet, Pages 12-13 — Officers' Mess and Automobile Regulations
Marine Corps Base Quantico Orientation Booklet, Pages 14-15 — Pat McAleer Document Collection
Printed Base Information Booklet, Pages 16-17 (Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia), Pat McAleer Collection
Pages 18-19, U.S. Navy Post 'Welcome Aboard' Guide: Medical Services and Commissary Regulations
Marine Corps Base Quantico Orientation Booklet, Pages 20-21 (Accessibility, Post Library, Post Chaplain Services)
Marine Corps Schools, Quantico, VA — Post Information Booklet, Pages 22-23 (1944)
Hand-Drawn Father's Day Greeting Cartoon from a U.S. Marine, WWII Pacific Theater
Hand-Drawn 'Season's Greetings' Card, Pat McAleer Collection, 1946
VMF-441 Commanding Officer's Christmas Message to Squadron Personnel, 1944-1945 (McAleer Collection)
Forwarded Wartime Envelope Addressed to Lt. E. P. McAleer, VMF-441/MAG-31, 1945
"Close Support" - Typewritten Satirical Military Poem, McAleer Collection
Naval Aviator Designation Letter for 2nd Lt. Edward P. McAleer, USMCR, Naval Air Training Center Corpus Christi, 7 July 1943
Letter from Leatherneck Magazine to 1st Lt. Edward P. McAllen, VMF-441, 27 July 1944
WWII-Era 'Domain of Neptunus Rex' Equator-Crossing Certificate Issued to 2nd Lt. C.P. McAleer, 24 March 1944
Newspaper Clipping: "A Cry From Kwajalein" — Navy Man Tells Story
