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Newspaper clipping announcing a tribute to war dead at Hastings High School.

Hastings Banner Published 1913. 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 a boot heel, top side with ruler, found at the crash site. It is USA made and most likely belonged to James Dibble.

Hastings Banner Published 1990. 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 Dibble (center) at the Fleischmann Lab where he was sent from Chicago for training in yeast .

James Dibble in Chicago, IL, daytime.

Hastings Banner Published 1996. 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 1961. 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.

Report of investigation of James Dibble's death and reburial, with map.

Sun and News Published 1981. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing.

An article in the From Time to Time series about A. E. Bull. This is part II, but part I is unaccounted for. Note this document is not searchable and was scanned into pdf some time ago. The bottom of the page is cut off slightly.

Hastings Banner Published 2022. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing.

Hastings Banner Published 1883. PDFs were created from microfilm and may have readability issues. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing.

Only three December issues are available. Note some newspaper files are very large and may take some time to download.

Sun and News Published 2017. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing.

Weekly encounter report, 1943-07-04 to 1943-07-10, listing Lt. Dibble as "probable" for downing an enemy plane.

Postcard from Bill in Arkansas to his mother.

Hastings Banner Published 1901. 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' Senior Photo from Hastings High School, Hastings, Michigan.

Missing in action telegram for James Dibble received by his wife Maxine.

Hastings Banner Published 2018. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing. Note some newspaper files are very large and may take some time to download.

Hastings Banner Published 2025. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing.

Nashville News Published 1912. PDFs were created from microfilm and may have readability issues. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing.

Mission Report for the 94th Fighter Squadron, 1st Fighter Group, July 12, 1943.

Hastings Banner Published 1939. 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.

Letter from James in North Africa to his wife Maxine (Micky). He tells her here what it's like to be a pilot in a tough spot. It's about the mission he flew on August 9, 1943.

Hastings Banner Published 2012. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing. Note some newspaper files are very large and may take some time to download.

Nashville News Published 1902. PDFs were created from microfilm and may have readability issues. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing.

Sun and News Published 2003. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing.

Jim Dibble's thoughts on Stan and Ray Schulze's differing accounts on what happened September 9, 1943.

Bull Diaries Book 6

Maple Valley News Published 1968. PDFs were created from microfilm and may have readability issues. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing.

Letter from before primary training to his parents.

Hastings Banner Published 1900. 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.

Signed Transition Flight Certificate where James Dibble certified he was trained to pilot the P-38, 1943-06-19.

Hastings Herald published 1913. PDFs were created from microfilm and may have readability issues. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing.

Nashville News Published 1886. PDFs were created from microfilm and may have readability issues. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing.

Six crew chiefs in front of Capt. Charlie McCann's P-38. His chief Pillard is 4th from the left.

Email from Stefania Melito in Italy recounting an interview with Giuseppe Pisano who witnessed James Dibble's crash.

Photo of a boot heel, top side, found at the crash site. It is USA made and most likely belonged to James Dibble.

Nashville News Published 1945. PDFs were created from microfilm and may have readability issues. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing.

People playing in the foam on the hill at Thornapple Plaza celebrating the 125th anniversary of the Library.

The front facade of the current Hastings Public Library at 227 East State Street, Hastings, MI.

Maple Valley News Published 1984. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing.

Hastings Banner Published 1946. 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.

Letter from the Department of the Army to James' nephew Jim summarizing what they knew of James' death.

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 1941. 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.

Excerpt from The Reminder listing names of former Hastings High School students who died in World War II.

Nashville News Published 1905. PDFs were created from microfilm and may have readability issues. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing.

Sun and News Published 2015. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing.