| Collection Name: |
Aviation Project |
| Repository Name: |
Columbia University. Oral History Research Office [Repository Details] |
| Repository Location: |
New York, New York, United States |
| URL: |
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/oral/guides/avi.html |
| Dates Spanned: |
1961-1961 |
| Description: |
Those interviewed included designers, engineers, pilots and executives, stunt flyers, and barnstormers; their recitations are informal and seasoned with anecdote. Veterans of World War I describe the development of aerial warfare in that conflict. Scores of recollections trace the rapid progress of aviation between the two World Wars: commercial aviation, air mail development, record flights, technological improvements, air races and polar flights, gliders, and lighter-than-air crafts. General William Mitchell's campaign for strengthening military aviation and Charles Lindbergh's solo flight to Paris provide focal points for many accounts of this period. |
| Estimated Total of Interviews: |
38 |
| Interviews: |
[114 interview(s) listed in this collection] |
| Broad Subjects: |
Military; Wars and Conflicts |
| ASP Subjects: |
Air pilots, Military; Air warfare; Airplanes, Military; Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima, August 6, 1945; Battle of Britain, July-October 1940; Battles; Great Britain. Royal Air Force; History; Luftwaffe, Germany; U.S. Air Force; United Kingdom; United States; War; World War II, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American |
| Collection Code: |
OHC0000801 |
