The Snapshots in Time Collection
Gallery: McAleer DOCUMENTS
Orders, bulletins, inspection forms, and a squadron commander's Christmas letter make up the documentary heart of the McAleer collection, spanning Corpus Christi flight training, Quantico orientation, and combat service with VMF-441. Official and personal by turns, the papers show how paperwork and sentiment alike recorded a Marine aviator's war.
U.S. Navy Pre-Flight School, St. Mary's College, California -- Printed Program Cover, November 26, 1942
U.S. Navy Thanksgiving Dinner Menu, WWII Era -- McAleer Family Collection
U.S. Navy Personal Identification Fingerprint Card - Edward Potter McAleer
USMC Marine Fighting Squadron 112 Training Document: 'Deflection Shooting' (Santa Barbara, California)
Navy Daily Flight Inspection Form, Pat McAleer Collection
U.S. Navy "Daily Flight Inspection Form" (Form N. Aer. 3119) - Pat McAleer Document Collection
U.S. Navy Aircraft Preflight Inspection Checklist Form (Yellow Carbon Copy)
U.S. Navy Aircraft Pre-Flight Inspection and Flight Log Form (Yellow Carbon Copy), McAleer Collection
"Fighter Director Vocabulary" — Restricted Brevity Code Reference Sheet, WWII/Korean War Era
Newspaper Clipping: 'Pipefuls by Jim Day' Featuring Captain Bill Baldwin, WWII Hometown Column
"Deflection Shooting" Training Memorandum, VMF-112, Marine Base Defense Aircraft Group 42, Santa Barbara CA
AP Wire Photo Newspaper Clipping - 'Rescued from Japs', Five Servicemen Including George Franck, Graham Smith, and Ted Lyons, Southwest Pacific WWII
Western Union Telegram from Bob Meyers (VMF-112) to 1st Lt. E. P. McAleer, March 16, 1945
Newspaper Clipping: 'Two Newsmen Wounded in Korea Ambush,' United Press Wire Story, September 1950
Newspaper Clippings Documenting Edward Potter McAleer's Marine Corps Aviation Career, WWII
Printed Caption Fragment, 'Official U.S. Navy Photographs' — St. Mary's Navy Pre-Flight School Obstacle Course
Civilian Pilot Training Program Scrapbook Page: Physical Training and Fatal Mid-Air Collision, Lone Pine, California, 1942
Newspaper Clipping: Army Service Pilots in Physical Training, Lone Pine, California, WWII Era
Wedding Invitation for Joan Mary Berry and Lt. John Theodore Straub, USMCR
Newspaper Clipping: 'Stars in the Home Town Service Flag' - 1st Lt. Edward P. McAleer, USMC
Newspaper Clipping: 'On Leave — Ensign Pat Curran,' Naval Aviator, Bakersfield Californian
Newspaper Clipping: Promotion of Marine 1st Lt. Edward P. McAleer, Corsair Fighter Squadron Pilot
Letter from Major General V. E. Megee, USMC, to Captain Edward P. McAleer, Marine Corps Air Station El Toro
WWII Soldier's Correspondence Postcard from the Sicily Campaign, Multiply Forwarded — McAleer Documents Collection
Newspaper Clipping: "3 Bay Marine Units Recalled" (Korean War Mobilization)
Typewritten Checklist: 'Uniform and Equipment to be Worn by All Officers Going Aboard Ship' — McAleer Papers
Newspaper Clipping: 'What Do You Do With the Office Boy When He Comes Back a Major?' - Reconversion Poem, HQ China Wing (McAleer Collection)
Cover, "Information Bulletin" (NAVMC-Quantico), Marine Barracks, Quantico, Virginia, 1 September 1944
Bulletin of Information for Officers Reporting for Duty, Marine Barracks Quantico, Virginia, 1 September 1944
General Index Page from Marine Corps Post Orientation Booklet, McAleer Collection
Printed Booklet Page - 'Early History, Acquisition and Development of the Marine Corps Station at Quantico,' Page 1
Printed History of Marine Barracks Quantico, Virginia -- Pages 4-5
Printed History Booklet, Pages 6-7: Development of Marine Corps Base Quantico and Turner Field
Quantico Post Guide Booklet, Pages 10-11: Quarters, Hostess House, and Baggage Handling
Marine Corps Base Quantico Officer Orientation Booklet, Pages 12-13 (Officers' Mess and Automobile Regulations)
Quantico Marine Base Personal/Post Guide Booklet, Pages 14-15
Pages 16-17, Marine Corps Post Welcome Booklet (likely Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia), circa early 1940s
Post Handbook Pages 18-19: Medical Services and Post Commissary Regulations (McAleer Collection)
Printed Booklet Pages 20-21: Post Information Guide, Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia
Marine Corps Schools Quantico Welcome Booklet, Pages 22-23 (1944)
Hand-Drawn Father's Day Greeting Cartoon "From the Marines"
Hand-Drawn 'Season's Greetings' Holiday Card, Mounted Album Page (McAleer Collection), 1946
Typed Christmas Message to Officers and Enlisted Personnel of VMF-441, December 1944 (McAleer Collection)
Forwarded Wartime Envelope Addressed to Lt. E. P. McAleer, USMC Aviator, 1945
Typed Satirical Poem 'Close Support' Lampooning Military Air Support Bureaucracy, Korean War Era (McAleer Collection)
Naval Aviator Designation Letter for 2nd Lt. Edward P. McAleer, USMCR, NAS Corpus Christi, 7 July 1943
Letter from The Leatherneck Magazine to 1st Lt. Edward P. McAleer (McAllen), VMF-441, 27 July 1944
Newspaper Clipping: 'A Cry From Kwajalein — Navy Man Tells Story' by Don Mainhurst
Mutual Telephone Company Charge Receipt, McAleer Papers
Marine Air-Infantry School Training Schedule, Marine Barracks Quantico, Virginia – "School Attended on Return from Pac"
"So You're Coming to Corpus" -- NAS Corpus Christi Orientation Booklet Cover, Pat McAleer Collection
"So You're Coming to Corpus" - Naval Air Training Center Welcome Booklet Title Page, Corpus Christi, Texas
'So You're Coming to Corpus' Orientation Booklet, Page 1 -- Naval Air Training Center, Corpus Christi, Texas
Naval Aviation Cadet Orientation Booklet, Pages 2-3 — Reporting Instructions and Packing List, McAleer Collection
Orientation Booklet, U.S. Naval Air Training Center, Corpus Christi, Texas - Pages 4-5, 'Mail and Packages' (McAleer Collection)
Printed Page Spread, Naval Aviation Cadet Regulations Booklet, N.A.T.C. Corpus Christi
U.S. Navy Cadet Conduct Handbook, Pages 8-9 -- 'Additional Do's and Don'ts' (McAleer Collection)
US Navy Aviation Cadet Handbook, Page 10 and NAS Corpus Christi Area Map (McAleer Collection)
Naval Aviator Certificate of 2nd Lt. Edward P. McAleer, USMCR, 7 July 1943
