Items
Below are 50 random items from across all online collections.
Mission Report for the 94th Fighter Squadron, 1st Fighter Group, July 13, 1943
Mission Report for the 94th Fighter Squadron, 1st Fighter Group, July 13, 1943.
Hastings Banner Published 1910
Hastings Banner Published 1910. PDFs were created from microfilm and may have readability issues. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing. Note…
Nashville News Published 1883
Nashville News Published 1883. PDFs were created from microfilm and may have readability issues. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing.
Letter from James in King City, CA during primary training to his mother, 1942-06-28
Letter from James in King City, CA during primary training to his mother.
Sun and News Published 1995
Sun and News Published 1995. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing.
Hastings Banner Published 1968
Hastings Banner Published 1968. PDFs were created from microfilm and may have readability issues. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing. Note…
Jim Dibble's thoughts on Stan and Ray Schulze's differing accounts on what happened September 9, 1943
Jim Dibble's thoughts on Stan and Ray Schulze's differing accounts on what happened September 9, 1943.
The Dibble brothers with war widows in white and other Padula citizens
The Dibble brothers with war widows in white and other Padula citizens. War widows of Freedom Fighters wore white T-shirts to the monument dedication…
Hastings Banner Published 1885
Hastings Banner Published 1885. PDFs were created from microfilm and may have readability issues. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing. Note…
Hastings Banner Published 2009
Hastings Banner Published 2009. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing. Note some newspaper files are very large and may take some time to…
Letter from Jim Dibble to Tom Brokaw about his uncle James Dibble
Letter from Jim Dibble to Tom Brokaw about his uncle James Dibble. The letter was later printed in Brokaw's 1999 book The Greatest Generation Speaks:…
Sun and News Published 1999
Sun and News Published 1999. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing.
Sun and News Published 1989
Sun and News Published 1989. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing.
Letter from James at Luke Field, AZ during advanced training to his parents, 1942-11-27
Letter from James at Luke Field, AZ during advanced training to his parents.
Bull Diaries Book 15
Bull Diaries Book 15
Mission Report for the 94th Fighter Squadron, 1st Fighter Group, August 29, 1943
Mission Report for the 94th Fighter Squadron, 1st Fighter Group, August 29, 1943.
Luke Field Flight Training Graduation Booklet for Jim Dibble's Class 42-K
Luke Field Flight Training Graduation Booklet for Jim Dibble's Class 42-K
Nashville News Published 1913
Nashville News Published 1913. PDFs were created from microfilm and may have readability issues. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing.
Letter from James in North Africa to his wife Maxine (Micky), 1943-05-15
Letter from James in North Africa to his wife Maxine (Micky).
Maple Valley News Published 2004
Maple Valley News Published 2004. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing.
Newspaper clipping of the Chico Flying School Review Parade, date unknown
Newspaper clipping showing flying school trainees in review before the base commander. James Dibble is somewhere in the upper picture. He included…
Sun and News Published 1981
Sun and News Published 1981. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing.
Nashville News Published 1958
Nashville News Published 1958. PDFs were created from microfilm and may have readability issues. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing.
Hastings Banner Published 1914
Hastings Banner Published 1914. PDFs were created from microfilm and may have readability issues. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing. Note…
Translated extract from a German book with observations from their perspective of the August 30, 1943 air battle.
Translated extract from a German book with observations from their perspective of the August 30, 1943 air battle. Unknown translator. Citation: Dr.…
Nashville News Published 1894
Nashville News Published 1894. PDFs were created from microfilm and may have readability issues. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing.
Hastings Banner Published 1893
Hastings Banner Published 1893. PDFs were created from microfilm and may have readability issues. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing. Note…
Hastings Banner Published 1904
Hastings Banner Published 1904. PDFs were created from microfilm and may have readability issues. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing. Note…
The plaque is installed on James Dibble's Monument
The plaque is installed on James Dibble's Monument just prior to the dedication ceremony.
Hastings Banner Published 1889
Hastings Banner Published 1889. PDFs were created from microfilm and may have readability issues. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing. Note…
Sun and News Published 2003
Sun and News Published 2003. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing.
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.
Hastings Banner Published 1911
Hastings Banner Published 1911. PDFs were created from microfilm and may have readability issues. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing. Note…
Bill Dibble and classmates outside the Edger one room schoolhouse. He was in 7th Grade.
Bill Dibble (third from right, back row) and classmates outside the Edger one room schoolhouse. He was in 7th Grade.
1st Fighter Group Mission report for August 30, 1943
1st Fighter Group Mission report for August 30, 1943.
Photo of a boot heel found at the crash site
Photo of a boot heel, bottom, found at the crash site. It is USA made and most likely belonged to James Dibble.
Hastings Herald Published 1912
Hastings Herald published 1912. PDFs were created from microfilm and may have readability issues. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing.
Hastings Banner Published 1976
Hastings Banner Published 1976. PDFs were created from microfilm and may have readability issues. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing. Note…
Republican (Hastings) Banner Published 1856
Republican (Hastings) Banner Published 1856. PDFs were created from microfilm and may have readability issues. Specific issues may be incomplete or…
Letter from Maxine in Phoenix, AZ, to James' parents, 1942-12-02
Letter from Maxine in Phoenix, AZ, to James' parents
Notes from George Smith clarifying events of August 30, 1943
Notes from George Smith clarifying events of August 30, 1943.
Letter from James in North Africa to his parents, 1943-05-09
Letter from James in North Africa to his parents.
James Dibble with his 3rd P-38 Lightning
James Dibble with his 3rd P-38 Lightning. Note the two swastikas on the nose indicating confirmed enemy planes shot down, and his wife's name painted…
Mission Report for the 94th Fighter Squadron, 1st Fighter Group, August 10, 1943
Mission Report for the 94th Fighter Squadron, 1st Fighter Group, August 10, 1943.
Bull Diaries Book 5
Bull Diaries Book 5
Hastings Banner Published 2023
Hastings Banner Published 2023. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing.
James Dibble and his brother Bill
James Dibble (right) and his brother Bill, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Postcard from Bill in Arkansas to his mother, 1942-04-08
Postcard from Bill in Arkansas to his mother.
Letter to Maxine Dibble with options for bringing James Dibble back to the U. S. for burial
Letter to Maxine Dibble with options for bringing James Dibble back to the U. S. for burial.
Republican (Hastings) Banner Published 1860
Republican (Hastings Banner) Published 1860. PDFs were created from microfilm and may have readability issues. Specific issues may be incomplete or…