[Robert O. Harder Collection]. 1948-2010.

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[Robert O. Harder Collection]. 1948-2010.

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The Robert O. Harder Collection consists of a signed copy of Flying from the Black Hole by Robert O. Harder, and materials related to his career as a navigator-bombardier in the Air Force. These include navigation maps, flight crew checklists, flight manuals, navigator wings, a periscopic sextant, the headset he wore by during his 145 missions, a shipping cap from a Mark 82 five-hundred pound bomb, and official documents. The collection also includes personal papers related to his family, newspaper clippings, cartoons, and miscellaneous materials as well as photographs and a collection of leaflets dropped by the Japanese on Allied troops during World War II. The collection primarily focuses on Harder's years in the service from 1966 to 1971, but some materials date to the present.

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Pritzker Military Museum & Library, Pritzker Military Library

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Pritzker Military Museum & Library, Pritzker Military Library

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United States. Air Force

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At Harris Neck, Georgia, in the remote northern reaches of McIntosh County, the United States government, in the fall of 1942, confiscated the lands along the South Newport and Barbour Island Rivers. Paved runways were constructed for aircraft, and Harris Neck became an air reconnaissance base for the United States Army Air Force during World War II. A number of support buildings were constructed at the Harris Neck Air Base, such as barracks for personnel, an officers club, and PX, to serve the ...

Harder, Robert O.

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Robert O. Harder (1945- ) was born in Jackson, Mississippi, and raised in Minnesota. He attended the University of Minnesota where he studied geography and political science. He began his military service at the University of Minnesota in the U.S. Air Force Reserve Officers Training Corps. Upon graduation in 1966, Harder received a commission into the United States Air Force as a second lieutenant. Although he had dreamed of becoming a military pilot, slight nearsightedness directed him toward n...