The Snapshots in Time Collection
Album Page: AP News Clipping "Rescued from Japs" and USMCAS Cherry Point Aviation Training Card, McAleer Papers
An AP news clipping documents the rescue of a group of servicemen — including football All-American George Franck and baseball star Ted Lyons — after their fighter plane crashed in the Southwest Pacific during WWII. Below it, a Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point training card records 1st Lt. F.P. McAleer's completion of altitude and night vision aviation training in July 1945, part of the physiological training required of all Marine Corps aviators. Project: 218307