Hastings Banner Published 1929. PDFs were created from microfilm and may have readability issues. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing. Note some newspaper files are very large and may take some time to download.
Photo of other pilots, some of whom flew on August 30, 1943. Left to right are Johnson (debriefing officer), Hurst (flew), Wineburg (flew, KIA), George Smith (flew), Smythe (didn't fly) and Newberry (didn't fly)
Hastings Banner Published 1995. PDFs were created from microfilm and may have readability issues. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing. Note some newspaper files are very large and may take some time to download.
Barry County Cemetery Burials, Listed by Last Name Alphabetically T-Z. Notes: This data was compiled in 2006 and will not contain datas later than approximately 2004. Many first names are missing for some cemeteries whose names begin with S-W; we will address this issue if and when possible.
Hastings Banner Published 1930. PDFs were created from microfilm and may have readability issues. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing. Note some newspaper files are very large and may take some time to download.
Newspaper clipping showing flying school trainees in review before the base commander. James Dibble is somewhere in the upper picture. He included this to his parents with his letter from September 17, 1942.
Map of Assyria, 1840. We are not 100% sure this is Assyria, but this township has the highest possibilty of being correct. There are two pages of the same map, however, one page shows more detail on the bottom of the page, and the other page shows more detail on the top of the page.
Hastings Banner Published 2013. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing. Note some newspaper files are very large and may take some time to download.
Hastings Banner Published 1905. PDFs were created from microfilm and may have readability issues. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing. Note some newspaper files are very large and may take some time to download.
James' "Short Snorter" $1 bill signed by, among others, Eddie Rickenbacker, WWI Ace and Carl Spatz, General and Commander of Strategic Air Forces in Europe, 1944.
According to the Air Mobility Command Museum, the Short Snorter was "paper currency signed by people you were flying with or people you met. If someone signed your short snorter and you couldn't produce it upon request, you owed him a dollar or a drink "a short snort." (https://amcmuseum.org/collections/short-snorter/)
Hastings Banner Published 1895. PDFs were created from microfilm and may have readability issues. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing. Note some newspaper files are very large and may take some time to download.
Hastings Banner Published 1958. PDFs were created from microfilm and may have readability issues. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing. Note some newspaper files are very large and may take some time to download.
Hastings Banner Published 1886. PDFs were created from microfilm and may have readability issues. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing. Note some newspaper files are very large and may take some time to download.
