Items
Below are 50 random items from across all online collections.
Sun and News Published 1992
Sun and News Published 1992. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing.
Mission report dated August 26, 1943 listing Lt. Dibble as destroying an Me. 109
Mission report dated August 26, 1943 listing Lt. Dibble as destroying an Me. 109.
P-38 pilot Capt. Charlie McCann
P-38 pilot Capt. Charlie McCann (right), Tech Sgt. Gene Pillar the crew chief (left), and "Lady Beverly"
Mission Report for the 94th Fighter Squadron, 1st Fighter Group, July 4 to July 5, 1943
Mission Report for the 94th Fighter Squadron, 1st Fighter Group, July 4 to July 5, 1943.
Nashville News Published 1922
Nashville News Published 1922. PDFs were created from microfilm and may have readability issues. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing.
Hastings Banner Published 1868
Hastings Banner Published 1868. PDFs were created from microfilm and may have readability issues. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing. Note…
James Dibble's Short Snorter Dollar Bill
James' "Short Snorter" $1 bill signed by, among others, Eddie Rickenbacker, WWI Ace and Carl Spatz, General and Commander of Strategic Air Forces in…
Hastings Banner Published 2014
Hastings Banner Published 2014. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing. Note some newspaper files are very large and may take some time to…
Maple Valley News Published 1992
Maple Valley News Published 1992. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing.
Hastings Banner Published 1996
Hastings Banner Published 1996. PDFs were created from microfilm and may have readability issues. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing. Note…
Hastings Banner Published 1878
Hastings Banner Published 1878. PDFs were created from microfilm and may have readability issues. Specific issues may be incomplete or…
James playing high school football, 1938
James (center, running the ball) playing high school football.
Maxine Dibble
Maxine Dibble
Nashville News Published 1954
Nashville News Published 1954. PDFs were created from microfilm and may have readability issues. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing.
1906 Catalog of the Women's Club Library
Small pamphlet printed in 1906 listing all holdings of the Women's Club of Hastings, MI.
Photo of other pilots, some of whom flew on August 30, 1943.
Photo of other pilots, some of whom flew on August 30, 1943. Left to right are Johnson (debriefing officer), Hurst (flew), Wineburg (flew, KIA),…
Sun and News Published 2020
Sun and News Published 2020. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing.
Letter from James at Muroc Air Force base (now Edwards), CA to his parents, 1942-12-21
Letter from James at Muroc Air Force base (now Edwards), CA to his parents.
Jim Dibble holding uncle James' posthumous Distinguished Flying Cross
Jim Dibble holding uncle James' posthumous Distinguished Flying Cross at the Dayton Airforce Museum.
Maple Valley News Published 1979
Maple Valley News Published 1979. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing.
Bull Diaries Index Th-Zu
Bull Diaries Index, Listed by Last Name Alphabetically Th-Zu
Letter from James in North Africa to his wife Maxine (Micky), 1943-05-22
Letter from James in North Africa to his wife Maxine (Micky).
Hastings Banner Published 1983
Hastings Banner Published 1983. PDFs were created from microfilm and may have readability issues. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing. Note…
Handwritten Note from Mrs. Richard Groos to the Hastings City Mayor and City Council
Handwritten note from Mrs. Richard Groos to the Hastings City Mayor and City Council accompanying a letter received from the Michigan State Librarian.
Weekly encounter report, 1943-07-04 to 1943-07-10
Weekly encounter report, 1943-07-04 to 1943-07-10, listing Lt. Dibble as "probable" for downing an enemy plane.
Nashville News Published 1900
Nashville News Published 1900. PDFs were created from microfilm and may have readability issues. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing.
Hastings Banner Published 1957
Hastings Banner Published 1957. PDFs were created from microfilm and may have readability issues. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing. Note…
James and his brother Bill in Chicago, 1941
1941: James (right) and his brother Bill in Chicago soon after James graduated High School.
Bull Diaries Index Fe-Hu
Bull Diaries Index, Listed by Last Name Alphabetically Fe-Hu
Letter fragment from James in North Africa to his wife Maxine (Micky), 1943-06-20
Letter fragment from James in North Africa to his wife Maxine (Micky).
Nashville News Published 1875
Nashville News Published 1875. PDFs were created from microfilm and may have readability issues. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing.
Sun and News Published 1987
Sun and News Published 1987. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing.
WWI Ace Eddie Rickenbacker addressing the 1st Fighter Group, 1943
WWI Ace Eddie Rickenbacker addressing the 1st Fighter Group. James Dibble is somewhere in this crowd. This picture started James' nephew Jim Dibble on…
James, Bill and their father James at the family farm
James (left), Bill (right) and their father James (center) at the family farm.
Hastings Banner Published 1920
Hastings Banner Published 1920. PDFs were created from microfilm and may have readability issues. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing. Note…
Jim Dibble's account of his uncle James Dibble's life and the search for answers into the details of his death
Jim Dibble's account of his uncle James Dibble's life and the search for answers into the details of his death.
Hastings Banner Published 1926
Hastings Banner Published 1926. PDFs were created from microfilm and may have readability issues. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing. Note…
Letter from James in North Africa to his wife Maxine (Micky), 1943-03-22
Letter from James in North Africa to his wife Maxine (Micky).
James' Senior Photo from Hastings High School
James' Senior Photo from Hastings High School, Hastings, Michigan.
Mission Report for the 94th Fighter Squadron, 1st Fighter Group, June 3 , June 4 and June 5, 1943
Mission Report for the 94th Fighter Squadron, 1st Fighter Group, June 3 , June 4 and June 5, 1943.
Hastings Banner Published 1961
Hastings Banner Published 1961. PDFs were created from microfilm and may have readability issues. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing. Note…
Maple Valley News Published 1993
Maple Valley News Published 1993. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing.
Hastings Herald Published 1903
Hastings Herald published 1903. PDFs were created from microfilm and may have readability issues. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing.
Maple Valley News Published 2019
Maple Valley News Published 2019. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing.
Hastings Banner Published 1989
Hastings Banner Published 1989. PDFs were created from microfilm and may have readability issues. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing. Note…
Transcription of an interview with Giuseppe Pisano who witnessed James Dibble's crash
Transcription of an interview with Giuseppe Pisano who witnessed James Dibble's crash.
Hastings Banner Published 1895
Hastings Banner Published 1895. PDFs were created from microfilm and may have readability issues. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing. Note…
Letter from James in Chico, CA during basic training to his mother, 1942-08-10
Letter from James in Chico, CA during basic training to his mother.
Newspaper clipping of Maxine's parents announcing her marriage to James Dibble on October 31, 1942
Newspaper clipping of Maxine's parents announcing her marriage to James Dibble on October 31, 1942.
Nashville News Published 1961
Nashville News Published 1961. PDFs were created from microfilm and may have readability issues. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing.