This scrapbook page preserves newspaper clippings documenting the wartime service of Edward Potter McAleer of Tupman, California, who trained as a Naval Reserve aviation cadet before earning a commission as a Marine Corps aviator serving on a Pacific island base. A 1944 press photograph shows Navy pre-flight cadets tackling the notorious fourteen-foot obstacle-course hurdle at St. Mary's Navy Pre-Flight School, part of the physically demanding training regimen developed to prepare aviation cadets for combat flying. A separate clipping reports war correspondent Philip Potter of the Baltimore Sun -- identified in the family's handwriting as 'Uncle Phil' -- wounded while covering the Korean War in 1950. Together these clippings reflect how one family tracked and commemorated the military and journalistic service of its members across two wars. Project: 218300