Box 28

Memoir of LT Horton, who served in the USS Yorktown (CV-10) in the post-Korean War Navy. Includes volunteering for the Navy's V5 flight program, then enlistment as air intelligence candidate and assignment of VF-152 in 1953 in USS Yorktown.

Memoir of engineering duty officer who specialized in Tactical Computer Systems Engineering for a five-year perios in the Bureau of Ships Naval Tactical Data System Project Office. He discusses the use of digital computers in fleetwide anti-air battle managment systems, 1962-1967.

Copy of a typed letter to Fred Thurber, Providence, R.I., with his reminiscences of ships, tugs, and navy captains in Newport, R.I., in 1917-1918. Thurber was CO, Second Naval District Mine Force and Maguire was yeoman, second class, USNR.

Typed letter signed to Louis A Maguire, Newport, RI., thanking him for his letter regarding the Mine Force, ships and their skippers.

Sepia photograph, head and shoulders, in naval uniform of yeoman second class, USNR, Newport, RI., ca. 1917. 4" x 5 3/4".

Sepia photograph in naval uniform of yeoman, second class, USNR, Newport, R.I., ca. 1917. 4" x 5 3/4".

Holograph letter signed to his brother, J. Hill Martin, Esq. in Philadelphia, Pa., from flagship of the South American Squadron, USS Powhatan, Iquique and Arica, Peru, mentioning his health, the long sea voyage, gold he has sent home, a description of Iquique with women muleteers, silver and nitrate mines, and Arica with plantations and greenery. He does not look forward to a return to Panama with its heat.

Personal Diary kept aboard USS Barry (DD-2) by Machinist 1st Class Rice, 20 December 1903-8 March 1906. Contains crew list, list of ports visited, distances traveled, duties performed on ship, discipline and punishments aboard ship. Includes photograph of 1st Torpedo Flotilla in the Mediterranean en route to China, 1904, and newspaper clippings of poems, Admiral Harry Yarnell's death, and family matters.

"Barker's Cubs. Piper Cub Planes and Their Pilots in the 43rd Division Artillery, 1944-1945." This is a memoir of his Army service in WWII, including flight training at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and Denton, Texas, service in New Guinea and the Philippines as a spotter pilot. Brief mention of Doolittle's liasion with the U.S. Navy in an LSM and the USS Pennsylvania.