E. C. Kirkpatrick Collection

Note:  This collection is physically located at the CAT/Air America Archive at UTD.

Box 1

Folder

 Description

  Date

1

  Correspondence

 

 

Maps: Socialist Republic of Union of Burma

 

 

Democratic Peoples Republic of Laos

 

 

Route map of Thailand

 

 

Bangkok Metropolitan

 

 

Tourist brochure of Taiwan

 

 

Clippings; articles; special notations

 

 

Accounting notations

 

 

Air America Logs (including the first published)

 

 

Flight crew lists

 

 

List of AAM personnel

 

 

Memos

 

 

Aircraft status

 

 

Series of letter between Bill Leary and Kirkpatrick

 

 

CAT in French Indochina: A Chronology

1949-54

 

Summary of the History of Air America from the official "secret" history prepared by the CIA

 

 

CAT covert operations

1951-53

 

Article:  "At Dawn of Commercial Aviation: Inglis M. Uppercu and Aeromarine Airway" by Bill Leary

 

 

Personnel roster; operations

 

2

  Miscellaneous Data

 

 

Correspondence between Kirkpatrick and Muroney

 

 

Hump Pilots Association rosters

 

 

Hump Pilots Association correspondence

 

 

Sookerating Scoops and Sketches

 

3

  Flying Tiger Association Brochure Mailer

 

 

Ohai Valley Inn and Country Club Brochure

 

 

Cannonball issues

 

 

China National Aviation Corporation Association Correspondence

 

 

Travel information

 

 

CNAC Association rosters

 

 

China Trip: Ohai reunion data

 

 

Milton Caniff on roster. The same Milton Caniff who created and authored "Terry and the Pirates" and "Steve Canyon" comic strips

 

 

Flying Tigers Annual reunion

 1964

 

Miscellaneous reunion data

 

 

Rosters

 

4

  Air America Club Information

 

5

Reproduced copy of "The Pictorial History of the flying Tigers"

 

 

Typed document: "Everybody Loves These DC-3's"

 

 

Letters from Stephen D. Johnson to Kirkpatrick

 

6

  Application for Check-Training with Pan American Air Ferries; Inc.

 

 

Related correspondence

 

 

Pan American Airways-Africa; Ltd.

 

7

  Correspondence: Kirkpatrick and Barry S. Martin

 

 

Sixteen page document titled: "Around the Jars Over The Hum"

 

 

Correspondence with China Aviation Corporation

 

 

Reunion data

 

8

  "Battle Damage"; Operation Squaw

 

 

Pictures taken by C.E. Stubbs; Mgr. Airline Service; Civil Air Transport

1954

 

Ground Personnel Requirements Evacuation

 

 

Hanoi-Saigon

 

 

French Republic; budget of 3 associate states

1954

 

Agreement with the French as to U.S. support in Indo China

 

9

  League of World War I Aviation Historians

1990

 

Membership Directory

 

10

  Confederate Air Force correspondence and related data

 

11

  Miscellaneous data; rosters; clippings; notes

 

 

Intercom pages 113 - 117 of AirForce Magazine

 1982

 

Notes and clippings

 

 

Reunion data

 

 

CNAC Cannon Ball issues

 

 

Flying Tiger bulletins

 

 

CNAC miscellaneous correspondence

 

 

CNAC Roster

 

 

CAT Bulletin

1976

 

General Chennault recreational park; dedicated in Monroe; LA

  

 

Copy of certification that Kirkpatrick served with China National Aviatiion Corporation and is eligible for the China War Memorial Medal

1942-47

 

Personal interest story

1929-37

 

CNAC active mailing list

1979

 

AVG/CNAC Bulletin

 

 

Lt. General Claire Lee Chennault memorial service and weekend program

1975

 

CNAC active mailing list

1981

 

Personal letters

 

 

Full page article on Flying Tigers in the Birmingham News

1981

 

Reunion bulletins and related data

 

 

Flying Tigers reunion bulletin and pictures of...

 1965

Box 2

Folder

 Description

  Date

 

Pan American Documents; Pittsburgh Institute of Aeronautics

 

 

Correspondence with Pittsburgh Institute of Aeronautics and Pennsylvania State College

1939-40

 

Approval of Kirkpatrick's Cross-Country application by the Civil Aeronautics Administration

1941

 

Pan-Am - Kirkpatrick documents and related data

1942-43

 

Pan Am Africa Newsletters

 

 

Miami Herald Clippings

 

13

CAT information; directories; bulletins; reunions

 

 

CAT Association membership directories

 

 

CAT Bulletins

 

 

Correspondence: Personal and otherwise

 

 

Air America circulars

 

 

CAT Hawaii reunion bulletin

1976

 

Face of General Chennault; sketched by Milton Caniff

 

 

CAT Association membership directories

 

 

Article: "The Orient's Own"; reprinted from "Esso Air World"

1954

 

"A Questionaire concerning the development of CAT Limited

 

 

Travel time: CAT's tenth anniversary

 

 

Kirkpatrick's CAT Flight time records

1952-53

14

Draft of book on CAT

 

 

Chapter 21 draft of book on CAT; including comments; correspondence and notations

 

15

CNAC Bulletins and mailing lists

 

 

CNAC Bulletins

 

 

Reunion data

 

 

Correspondence

 

 

CNAC active mailing list

1971

 

CNAC active mailing list

1969

16

Regulations; China National Aviation Corporation

 

 

General flight rules and regulations; China National Aviation Corporation Flight Division

 

 

Miscellaneous flight data: Charts; maps; forms and instructions; Business cards; personal notes; personal documents

 

 

Miscellaneous collection of bulletins and publications

 

 

Tiger rag issues

 

 

CNAC association reunion

1968

 

AVG-CNAC reunion

1985

 

AVG-CNAC reunion

1974

 

AVG-CNAC reunion

1979

 

Milton Caniff sketches - guest speaker

 

 

"The Bulletin" CAT issues

 

Box 3

Folder

 Description

  Date

1-5

Miscellaneous newspaper clippings

 

Box 4

Folder

 Description

  Date

6-10

Miscellaneous newspaper clippings

 

Box 5

Folder

 Description

  Date

 

Scrap book pages 1 - 84 covering the following: Newspaper articles and pictures; Life Magazine articles and pictures; Flying The Hump; India; Singapore; China; Sinkiang; Merrill's Marauders in Burma; General Stillwell; Terry and the Pirates

 

Box 6

Folder

 Description

  Date

1

CAT Association membership directory

1990

 

Pan American World Airways News release

1945

 

Letter from Republic of China Ambassador to U.S.

 

 

Letter from James C.H. Shen to L.F. Roberts; Jr.

 

 

Chapter I; "The Beginnings of Commercial Aviation

 

 

Letter from Al Mah to Dr. Reg Farr; M.D.

1973

 

Dick Sweetman's account of losing his wife addressed to Reg Farrar

 

 

Copy of "China Letter"

1980

2-3

Miscellaneous CAT Bulletins

 

4

Miscellaneous Cannon Ball Publications

 

5

Tiger Rag Publications

 

6

Clippings covering Guam; Wake; India and all Western Pacific area

 

7

Clippings covering China

 

Box 7

Folder

 Description

  Date

8-9

Clippings covering China

 

10

Kirkpatrick personal data

 

11

Special articles and letters

 

 

The Old Navy: "The Pearl of the Orient" Mount Everest

 

 

Robert L. Scott Letter: Museum of Aviation; Robins AFB

 

 

Robert L. Scott Letter to Kirkpatrick regarding Museum of Aviation

 

 

Personal letter from Jack Hale Hanser to Kirkpatrick

 

12-13

 Miscellaneous clippings

 

14

Certificate of graduation: Pan Am; Air Ferries; Inc.

 

Box 8

Folder

 Description

  Date

1

 Articles:

 

 

"Get Set For Summer" by Robert T. Smith; AOPA 85503

 

 

"It Pays To Be Nosy"

 

 

Flight Map - Japan

 

 

CAT; A report on the Republic of China's designated flag carrier: From United Aircraft Quarterly Bee-Hive

1962

 

The Lockheed "Constitution" general data

 

 

The Northrop C125W Trimotor passenger-cargo aircraft general data

 

 

Specifications; Ransa modified Boeing Stratocruiser Cargoliner

 

 

The Sonic Boom; its effect on lightplanes

 

 

"Turbine Powerplants for STOL Aircraft"; transmitted by appropriate letter from United Aircraft of Canada Ltd.

1964

 

"Preliminary specification No. III"; American Turbine Engine Company; PT6A-6; kit for Twin Beech; with transmittal letter from Edward West; Jr. to George A. Doole; Jr.; managing director; Air America; Inc.

 

 

Icing and Turbulence by Barbara Witchell Tully; APOA 120619

 

2

Booklet: U.S. Aviation Today

1957

 

Booklet: Prestwick Pioneer; Alvis Leonides 503/7 engine

 

 

Booklet: TWA Wings For The World

 

 

Booklet: X-15; Research at the Edge of Space

 

 

Booklet: 50 Years Nearer The Sky

 

 

Booklet: Air-Britain Digest

1965

 

Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan; and status of forces agreement with related documents

 

3

America: Too Young To Die! by Alexander P. de Seversky

 

 

Adventure Into Space by Lt. Col. David G. Simons

 

 

The Fabulous Flying Gas Bag by Douglas Lamsford

 

 

The Calair International Super C-119 Turbo-Prop

 

 

Booklet: Jet Facts and Hong Kong Airport

 

 

Booklet: Good Old Flying Days

 

 

Air France: The World's Largest Airline

 

4

 Miscellaneous items:

 

 

Pictures; Individual letters; articles; notes

 

 

Binders containing articles; clippings; certificates; and cartoons all pertaining to CAT and the Vietnam War

 

Box 9

Folder

 Description

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Black book binder No. 1 containing an itemized list of 35 mm color slides; identified by number and found in slide boxes "A" and "B"

 

 

Black book binder No. 2 containing photographs of helicopters; aircraft; aircraft designs and articles

 

Four photograph albums all photos have been identified

 

Box 10

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Two binders that contain lists of photographs that are found in the 4 binders in Box 9

 

Box 11

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  Date

 

Eight scrapbooks containing news items and news photographs. These clippings and photographs cover early aviation days

 

 

Some news items and photographs cover Kirkpatrick's experience in Asia

 

Box 12

Folder

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Nine scrapbooks containing news items and news photographs. These clippings and photographs cover early aviation days

 

 

Some new items and photographs cover Kirkpatrick's experience in Asia

 

Box 13

Folder

 Description

  Date

 

Nine scrapbooks containing news items and news photographs. These clippings and photographs cover early aviation days

 

 

Some news items and photographs cover Kirkpatrick's experience in Asia

 

Box 14

Folder

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Two photograph albums. Each photograph is numbered; dated and identified on the back

 

Box 15

Folder

 Description

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Two photograph albums. Each photograph is numbered; dated and identified on the back

 

Box 16

Folder

 Description

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Three photograph albums. Each photograph is numbered; dated and identified on the back

 

Box 17

Folder

 Description

  Date

 

Three photograph albums. Each photograph is numbered; dated and identified on the back

 

Box 18

Folder

 Description

  Date

 

Two photograph albums. Each photograph is numbered; dated and identified on the back

 

Box 19

Folder

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Box of slides; categorized by location:  China; Cambodia; Malaya; New Zealand; Thailand; Burma; Himalayan Hump; Korea; etc.

 

Box 20

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  Date

 

Aeronautical navigating charts; Asia; Pacific and European areas plus geographic maps of world areas

 

 

Pan American brochure and large poster

 

 

Two Loran Pacific Airways plotting charts

 

 

Seven Pacific Airways plotting charts

 

 

Link Trainer chart of Chicago hold procedure - TWA

 

 

Twenty long range plotting charts - USAF

 

Box 21

Folder

 Description

  Date

 

Pan American brochures and large posters

 

 

Airline map of the U.S. - Texaco

1960

 

Ten charts and information issued by China

 

 

National Aviation Corporation

 

 

Sixty-one National Geographic miscellaneous maps

 

 

Twenty-three military type charts and maps

 

 

Pan American World Airways Brochure:  "The Whole World" by Clipper

 

Box 22

Folder

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  Date

 

Miscellaneous maps

 

Box 23

Folder

 Description

  Date

 

Miscellaneous maps

 

Box 24

Folder

 Description

  Date

 

One binder containing aeronautical charts covering Asiaa through Africa

 

 

50 miscellaneous aeronautical charts

 

Box 25

Folder

 Description

  Date

 

One binder containing aeronautical charts covering Asia through Africa

 

 

50 miscellaneous aeronautical charts

 

Box 26

Folder

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Two hundred loose aeronautical charts covering China and surrounding areas

 

Box 27

Folder

 Description

 Date

 

Two hundred loose aeronautical charts covering China and surrounding areas

 

Box 28

Folder

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Two hundred loose aeronautical charts covering China and surrounding areas

 

Box 29

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Four photograph albums: Pictures of all categories including photos of clippings and maps.  Each photograph is numbered; dated and identified on the back.

 

Box 30

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Six photograph albums: Pictures of all categories.  Each photograph is numbered; dated and identified on the back.

 

Box 31

Folder

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Five photograph album: Pictures of all categories.  Each photograph is numbered; dated and identified on the back.

 

Box 32

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One photograph album.  Each photograph is numbered; dated and identified on the back.