Robert Vance Garrett collection, 1929-1962.

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Robert Vance Garrett collection, 1929-1962.

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The collection consists of a wide variety of records including correspondence (1933-1967), pilot logs (1928-1942), scrapbooks (ca. 1943-1950), and other items related to Garrett's career as a commercial pilot and a pilot for Wyoming Air Service (which became Inland Air Lines and later Inland Division of Western Air Lines), with the U.S. Army Air Forces (1942-1945) as a pilot instructor and finally chief of Flight Operations Division at the Pentagon, service on the Civil Aeronautics Board, and help directing the Berlin Airlift; together with material after 1955 when he left the aviation field to pursue other commercial endeavors.

1 cubic ft.

Wyoming, State Archives and Historical Department

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SNAC Resource ID: 8044405

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United States. Army Air Forces

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The Army Air Forces War Adjustment Course was established in 1944 at several locations in the U.S., one of which was Harvard Business School. The HBS program involved eight weeks of training in the business of contract terminations, cutbacks, and property disposal necessitated by changes in Army Air Forces tactical requirements. Approximately 4,200 officers received instruction throughout the country, about one sixth of them at HBS. The goal of the program was to train men for participation in t...

Garrett, Robert Vance, 1903-1965.

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Aviator. From the description of Robert Vance Garrett collection, 1929-1962. (Wyoming State Archives). WorldCat record id: 70922402 ...

United States. Army Air Forces. Flight Operations Division

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United States. Civil Aeronautics Board

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Wyoming Air Service

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