The Snapshots in Time Collection
Gallery: Part 2
Scrapbook pages, certificates, and flight line snapshots trace the naval aviation training of E. P. McAleer from pre-flight school through squadron service at Santa Barbara and El Toro. Handwritten "KIA" annotations added later by a squadron mate turn routine training photographs into personal memorials.
Civilian Pilot Training (C.P.T.) Encampment, Lone Pine, California, 1942 — Scrapbook Page with Three Photographs
Scrapbook Page: MCAS Goleta Crash Clipping and Santa Barbara Training Photos, 1944 (McAleer Collection)
U.S. Navy Carrier Fighter Aircraft 'S78 / EIGHT' in Flight, WWII
Serviceman Relaxing in Barracks Quarters with Photographs of Sweethearts on Shelf, WWII
VMF-112 Marine Fighter Squadron Album Page with Combat Annotations, WWII
Handwritten Letter Regarding Rufus Lloyd "Bud" Mounce, Korean War-Era Navy Serviceman, 2013
Serviceman Posing at a Tent-Camp Billet, WWII-era Base Camp
Group of Officers in Khaki Uniforms at Forward Base
U.S. Navy Serviceman Beside Single-Engine Aircraft Undergoing Maintenance, Santa Barbara, California — McAleer Collection
Ground Crew Servicing a Vought F4U Corsair's Radial Engine, WWII Flight Line
WWII Aviator's Album Page: F4U Corsair and F4F Wildcat Fighters, Santa Barbara, 1943
U.S. Navy Aviator in Flight Gear, WWII Era, McAleer Collection
U.S. Navy Torpedo Bomber in Flight Over Coastline, WWII Era
Album Page: Civilian Pilot Training Class Group Portrait (Sept. 8, 1942) and Liaison Aircraft Crew Photo, with Annotation Noting a Member Later Killed Flying a P-38
Group Portrait of Aviation Personnel Beside Aircraft Wing, Mid-20th Century
Three Airmen in Pith Helmets with Training Monoplane, Pre-WWII/Early WWII Era
Night Long-Exposure Photograph with Light Trail Along Tent Row (McAleer WWII Collection)
Aviator Group Portrait, Santa Barbara 1943, and Flight Line at El Toro - McAleer Collection, WWII
Four U.S. Navy Aviators Beside SNJ Trainer Aircraft, Pat McAleer Collection
Line of F4U Corsair Fighters on Flight Line, Korean War Era Airfield
E.P. McAleer Scrapbook Page: Driver's Permit, Red Cross Certificate, and Cockpit Photograph, WWII
Pilot in Cockpit of Single-Engine Aircraft No. 459, Snow-Covered Airfield, WWII/Post-War Era
Scrapbook Page: Kern County Civil Defense Driver Card, 'Pipefuls' Newspaper Clipping, and Aviation Photographs, McAleer Family Collection
Company Street Inspection at Tented Training Camp, Pat McAleer Collection
Woman Posing in Cockpit of Light Civilian Aircraft, Desert Airstrip, McAleer Family Collection
Serviceman Posing at Camp Tent Structure - Pat McAleer Collection
US Military Training Aircraft Parked on Airfield Apron, WWII Era, McAleer Collection
U.S. Navy Vought F4U Corsair (Side No. 48, Tail Code 'NA') in Flight with Underwing Rockets, Korean War Era
U.S. Navy Carrier Fighter in Flight and Combat-Damaged Aircraft on Salvage Barge, Kwajalein Atoll, 1944
WWII Album Page: American Fighter Aircraft with Ground Crew and Pilot, Pat McAleer Collection
Three Servicemen Posed on Fighter Aircraft Cockpit, Early WWII Era - McAleer Collection
Fighter Pilot in Cockpit Amid Clouds, Air-to-Air Photograph, WWII/Korean War Era
WWII Pacific Theater Scrapbook Page: Fighter Aircraft Crew, "Ready Alert Line" Revetment, and Camp Group Photo, Pat McAleer Collection
Four Servicemen Posing on the Wing of a Captured German Fighter Aircraft (Possible Focke-Wulf Fw 190), Airfield with Marston Matting
Military Truck Beside Fortified Earthen Revetment, WWII Theater of Operations
Group Portrait of Servicemen at a Pacific Theater Tent Camp, World War II
Naval Aviators with Parachute at Air Station, with Posthumous 'KIA' Annotations, WWII (Pat McAleer Collection)
Naval Aviators Inspecting a Parachute on the Flight Line - Pat McAleer Collection
Air-to-Air Photograph of F4U Corsair Fighter, Side Number 483 — WWII Marine/Naval Aviation
Scrapbook Clipping: 2nd Lts. Miller and McAleer with F4U Corsair Training Squadron
Magazine Clipping: 2nd Lt. J. E. Miller and 2nd Lt. E. P. McAleer Preparing for a Training Flight, U.S. Naval Aviation, WWII
Album Page: Servicemen at Leisure in Pacific Tent Camp and Sailing Excursion
Shirtless Serviceman Holding Bottles in Tent Camp, WWII (McAleer Collection)
Three Off-Duty Servicemen with Beer Bottles at Tent Camp, WWII Pacific Theater, McAleer Collection
Sailors in a Small Sailing Boat at Sea, Mid-20th Century Naval Recreation
Scrapbook Page: WWII Newspaper Clippings on Lt. Edward P. McAleer (Corsair Pilot) and Ens. Pat Curran, Bakersfield Californian
F4U Corsair "A72" on Floating Barge/Pontoon Dock, Pacific Theater, WWII
Navy Aviator's Photo Album Page: TBM Avenger and SB2C Helldiver, Marshall Islands, 1944
