Inventory
0.50 Linear Feet
June 1988
Revised December 2001
Revised July 2002
| Box |
File |
Description |
| 1 |
1-6 |
Correspondence, Gene Girman to Frances Girman, 1943-1945 |
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7 |
Correspondence, Frances Girman to Gene Girman, 1944-1945 |
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8 |
Correspondence, War Department to Frances Girman, 1943-1944 |
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9 |
Correspondence, "Thunderbird" Crew Relatives to Frances Girman, September 1944-May 1945 |
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10 |
Correspondence, "Thunderbird" Crew Relatives to Gene Girman, June-September, 1945 |
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11 |
Correspondence, Friends of Gene Girman to Frances Girman, 1944 |
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12 |
Crew List, "Thunderbird", 1944 |
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13 |
Various, ca. 1944 |
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14 |
Newsarticle, "World War II POW Recounts Air Battles, Days in German Prison Camp," 1981 |
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15 |
Newsarticles, Return of the "Thunderbird", 1987 |
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16 |
Newsarticles, "Thunderbird" Mural, 1977 |
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17 |
Pamphlet, Cowboys and Indians (story of the "Thunderbird" Mural), 1977 |
July 2002 Addition
| Box |
File |
Description |
| 1 |
19 |
Article, "The Last One Home," Warbirds, November/December 1988 |
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20 |
Article, "Fortress Over the Atlantic," Airpower, March 1988 |
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21 |
Article, "Thunder Bird Comes Home," 1988 |
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22 |
Newsarticle, "Last Blast for B17," London Evening Standard, July 10, 1987 |
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23 |
Description, Thunder Bird and Gene Girman, Lone Star Flight Museum, 1988 |
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24 |
Article, "Going Back," Hell’s Angels Newsletter (303rd Bomb Group), May 1998 |
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25 |
Newsarticle, "Artist Brings Plane to Life for Flier He Believed Dead," Indianapolis Star, July 25, 1992 |
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26 |
Newsarticle, "Mural Recalls a Tragic Story," Washington Star, n.d. |
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27 |
Article, "Jeff Ethell Accident Report," Warbirds Journal, October 1998 |
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28 |
Newsarticle, "Command Performance," Houston Chronicle, July 2000 |
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29 |
Letter, Albert Postma to Colonel Frances M. Early, June 14, 1998 |
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Book, Might in Flight: Daily Diary of the Eighth Air Force’s Hell’s Angels, 303rd Bombardment Group (H), by Harry D. Gobrecht, 1993 |
Oversize
| Description |
| "Thunderbird" Mural. n.d. |
Videotape
| Description |
| Videotape, (1), Return of the "Thunderbird", 1987 |
Appendix - Girman's Service Record
- January 20, 1943
- Entered Service - Ft. Ben Harrison, Indiana
- Basic Training - Miami
- Spring 1943
- Radio School - Chicago
- Later, Scott Field - Belleville, IL
- October 1943
- Gunnery School - Las Vegas
- December 1943
- May 1944
- May-June 1944
- Hunterfield, GA
- Bangor, ME
- Newfoundland
- Enroute Overseas
- July 29, 1944
- August 24, 1944
- Shot Down (Girman's 10th Mission)
- POW -- 4 Hospitals
- Leipzig
- Dulaglof (near Frankfort) - Holmark Hospital
- Menningen
- Obermassfield
- Sent to Grosstychow (near Belgande) - (Pomesania - now Poland) Then, took train trip to Nuremburg - then to Mooseburg - Stalag 9C
- April 29, 1945
- Liberated by Patton's 14th Armored
- Flown to LaHarre, France - last convoy to USA on the Santa Rosa
- May 29, 1945
- Back in USA - Hospital in Chicago (Gardner)
- November 15, 1945
- Discharged in San Antonio
Subject Tracings
- Armed Forces
- Veterans
- World War II
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