John H. TowersPapers 1830-1989 (bulk 1906-1955)

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John H. TowersPapers 1830-1989 (bulk 1906-1955)

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United States Navy officer and early naval aviator. Diaries, naval and personal correspondence, memoranda, orders for duty, aviation logs, speeches and writings, biographical notebooks and sketches, photographs, reports, scrapbooks, blueprints, charts, and newspaper clippings documenting Towers's naval career and his participation in naval aviation from its inception in 1911 to World War II and after.

5000 items; 15 containers plus 4 oversize; 8 linear feet

eng,

Library of Congress. Manuscript Division

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SNAC Resource ID: 6356211

Library of Congress. Manuscript Division

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