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Hastings Banner Published 2017. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing. Note some newspaper files are very large and may take some time to download.

Mission Report for the 94th Fighter Squadron, 1st Fighter Group, August 5 to August 6, 1943.

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.

Sun and News Published 2019. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing.

Letter from James in North Africa to his wife Maxine (Micky). He tells her here about being recommended for the Distinguished Flying Cross.

Hastings Banner Published 1966. 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's tentmate Jack Hanton dedication presentation.

General Twining presenting an Air Medal to 94th Fighter Squadron pilot Lt. Robert Vrilakas

Maple Valley News Published 1969. PDFs were created from microfilm and may have readability issues. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing.

Letter from Maxine in Los Angeles, CA, to James' parents.

Nashville News Published 1954. PDFs were created from microfilm and may have readability issues. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing.

Hastings Banner Published 1908. 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.

Maple Valley News Published 1983. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing.

Hastings Banner Published 1894. 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 1869. 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 parents.

Bull Diaries Book 13

Nashville News Published 1958. PDFs were created from microfilm and may have readability issues. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing.

Photograph of head librarian Florence Wilson, 1964-1974.

Hastings Banner Published 1937. 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 Chicago, IL to his mother.

Sun and News Published 2014. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing.

The story of August 30, 1943, titled "The Day of Armageddon" by Jim Dibble; an account of the air battle that earned his uncle James Dibble the Distinguished Flying Cross.

Hastings Banner Published 1985. 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 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.

Nashville News Published 1877. PDFs were created from microfilm and may have readability issues. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing.

Letter from James in Chico, CA during basic training to his mother.

Hastings Banner Published 1975. 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 1954. 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.

Statement from Walter Pitman about Lt. Rigney, shot down on August 30, 1943.

Bull Diaries Index, Listed by Last Name Alphabetically Th-Zu

Hastings Banner Published 2004. 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.

Pilot Jack Pettus

James (front row center, #26) in his high school football team photo.

Statement from Stanton Opdahl about Lt. Woodard, shot down on August 30, 1943.

Nashville News Published 1885. PDFs were created from microfilm and may have readability issues. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing.

Transcription of an interview with Giuseppe Pisano who witnessed James Dibble's crash.

U.S. Air Force Colonel Michael Dredla from Aviano Air base speaking at James Dibble's monument dedication ceremony.

Hastings Banner Published 1885. 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.

Mission Report for the 94th Fighter Squadron, 1st Fighter Group, September 6, 1943.

Letter from Jim Dibble to the State Department seeking assistance to research James Dibble's crash site in Italy.

Republican (Hastings) Banner Published 1858. 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).

Jim Dibble (left) with James' brother Bill (back to camera), eyewitness Enzo Pinto (center right) and relative of a family friend Sal Dimaio (right). Enzo authored the monument erected in James Dibble's honor. Sal was a guide from Salerno/Naples. Pinto saw the crash when he was 12 years old, later became the Padula mayor, and authored the plaque on James Dibble's monument.

Nashville News Published 1911. PDFs were created from microfilm and may have readability issues. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing.

Hastings Banner Published 1947. 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 parents.

Hastings Banner Published 2020. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing. Note some newspaper files are very large and may take some time to download.

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

Statement from Stanton Opdahl about Lt. Woodard, shot down on August 30, 1943.