General Reference

Documents & Materials

 

 

 

MATERIALS

ARMY – PRIMARY FLIGHT TRAINING – LOG BOOK.

ARMY – BASIC FLIGHT TRAINING – LOG BOOK.                  

RADIO OPERATORS TRAINING MATERIALS                                                                

National Archives & Records Administration – Combat Photographers of New Guinea.

 

METEROLOGY TRAINING MATERIALS                                                               

SMALL BOX – WRC PERSONAL ITEMS                                                               

ARMY HUMAN RESOURCES

ACKNOLEDGEMENT OF FREEDOM OF INFO REQ – 2/5/04

 

ARMY ADMIN PERSONNEL

LETTER SAYING I HAVE ALL THE WRC INFO – 7/21/98

         

ARMY – Regional air navigation chart – San Antonio training                 

ARMY – WINDSOCK

Published by Aviation Cadets Class 42-D (not WRC)   

 

ARMY – Radio Communications Course Books - #1-18 & abbreviations list

         

ARMY – Advanced Radio Communications Training books                                

ARMY – Radio Amateur’s Handbook – 1942      

                                               

HISTORY CHANNEL CLUB

D-DAY 1944 – Omaha and Utah Beaches – 2005

 

NATIONAL ARCHIVES & RECORDS ADMIN

NG COMBAT PHOTOGRAPHERS - 6/27/03      

 

NATIONAL ARCHIVES & RECORDS ADMIN

Reply to request for pics of WRC, 22nd TCS, 374th TCG – none found – other pics sent – 8/24/99

         

NATIONAL PERSONNEL RECORDS CENTER – STL

REQ FOR FORMS – 5/27/97 

 

NATIONAL PERSONNEL RECORDS CENTER – STL

REQ FOR INFO – 5/9/97

                  

NATIONAL PERSONNEL RECORDS CENTER – STL

REQ FOR INFO – 7/15/98              

LETTER TO JIM CRECELIUS (NEXT OF KIN) ABOUT WRC RECORDS

LETTER DATED 12/19/2003

 

NATIONAL PERSONNEL RECORDS CENTER – STL

JIM REQ FOR INFO – 9/6/03

 

Ann Hecht interview of Henry at his home in Princeton in 1987.

 

MISC ITEMS/DOCUMENTS/NEWSPAPERS/MAGAZINES

 

WWII MONUMENT – COURTHOUSE – PRINCETON INDIANA                

 

Post Cards                                                                                        

 

Pay envelops/stubs                                                                           

 

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

WWII info about Aus/NG videos/films 2/10/99        

 

AMERICAN LEGION

“Fall In” Booklet to men who serve – ‘41            

 

Francisco Elementary School

Program notes – 10/31/96                      

Program to honor those killed from Center Township           

Copy of 3 versions of Francisco Fight Song                            

 

WRC Bus Cards – Pilot Card – metal master plate                                                        

IN State Museum - “Faces of Indiana” – WRC display -  7/13/04 

 

Reader’s Digest – 2/43                                                                    

C-47 “Flying Dutchman” story                                             

War Correspondent – Whole Divisions moved by Air

54th TCW info papers                                                                     

 

Certificate of Staff Sergeant Pilot – 6/24/42                                  

 

Certificate of Boy Scouts – Asst Scoutmaster – 11/11/36              

 

Certificate - Completion of Basic Flight School – 42F – 4/29/42   

Curtis Field – Admission to Advanced Training

                            

Certificate - completion of Army Radio Operator-Mechanics School        

56th School Sq, Barksdale – 6/6/41                                               

 

Certificate – completion of pilot training – Receivd Wings              

Ellington Field – 7/3/42                                                        

 

Air Corps Technical School – Trigonometry book                                     

 

Air Corps Pilot Training – Distances from Ellington Field                

 

U.S. Income Tax form – 1942 – taxable amount $9.41                  

 

Air Corps Replacement training center – 12/15/41

 

Transmitter class materials                                                              

 

Memo to pilots…. of 63rd TCG – 10/18/42                                            

 

WRC Orders to 10th TCG in Cudahy (Fond Du Lac),WI – 6/26/42                 

Assigned as pilot on 1 of 9 planes moving personnel from Stuttgart Air Base in Arkansas to Victorville, CA

 

Discharge from Staff Sgt Pilot to accept Flight Officer appt   

 

COLVIN WRC BURIAL RECORD – BURIED 3/11/48                                

Burial cost $242                                                                     

$242 reimbursed by Army by claim made on 3/15/48                                     

 

4H sweater patch                                                                             

 

World travel map of Australia                                                         

 

International Route Map – Aus/NG                                                 

Austin Section Aeronautical Chart – 1/39                                      

Austin Section Aeronautical Chart – 8/40                                      

Oklahoma City Section Aeronautical Chart – 3/26/42                           

Tulsa Section Aeronautical Chart – 7/41                                        

Dallas Section Aeronautical Chart – 8/41                                      

Dallas Section Aeronautical Chart – 2/19/42                                

San Antonio Section Aeronautical Chart – 2/41                             

San Antonio Section Aeronautical Chart – 10/41                                    

Chattanooga Section Aeronautical Chart – 7/40                                     

Wichita Section Aeronautical Chart – 4/42                                             

 

IU info book dated 1936                                                                           

 

Prairie Farmer article about farmer who had just received DFC.

 

Received note from Henry that WRC had been killed.

 

Newspaper on WRC getting Wings at Ellington Field                      

 

Newspaper on WRC getting DFC                                                               

 

Newspaper on WRC death

 

Newspaper on WRC – Getting Wings at Ellington Field                   

 

Princeton Daily Democrat – 1/1/48 – List WRC death                  

 

VINCENNES PAPER – Article announcing Lawrenceville flight school      

 

USA TODAY 11/7/07 – INFO ON NATIONAL ARCHIVES IN STL                     

Rural Youth Article about WRC getting DFC                                            

 

Newspaper on about Lawrenceville Fight school                              

 

Newspaper on “My Victory Garden” poem – Edna Rose Collins

 

“Tract-of-the-month Club” – Gospel – Being Prepared Inside & Out       

 

Newspaper on Mary Christmas getting fan mail from several states

 

Newspaper on “The Message” poem Fannie Heaslip Lea                  

 

Western Union Telegraph – 7/9/42 to WRC                                  

Cancel furlough immediately for flying school – 11/21/41 

 

Congratulations, Happy Landing & Hurry Home – family – 7/9/42

 

Letter to Betty Dyer – neighbor & friend

                                               

Received note from another vet about visiting islands after the war because of the way WRC talked about it.     

                  

WRC 1936 GIBSON COUNTY ANIMAL ENTRYS – HOGS - 1936   

TAG – 1ST PREMIUM – GIBSON CTY FAIR – 1936                                            

TAG – 2ND PREMIUM – GIBSON CTY FAIR – 1936                       

TAG – 2ND PREMIUM – GIBSON CTY FAIR – 1936                                 

Ribbon – 1st PREMIUM – GIBSON CTY FAIR – 1936                                

 

PURDUE LETTER ABOUT HOG SHOW AT Indianapolis STOCK YARDS – 9/17/36

 

SUPPLY RECEIPT S.SGT CRECELIUS – 52ND TCS - DODD FIELD 10/7/42       

 

NOTE DISCONTINE SERV LIFE POLICY – APPT TO F.O. – 12/29/42                

 

“CHAPEL CHIMES” – Hamilton Field - 4/4/43                                        

Church Bulletin – on back “The next time you write home send this bulletin along.  The folks back home would like to have it”.  Evidently WRC did just that.                         

 

AUTHORIZATION - PAY $6.60/MO NAT LIFE POLICY – 7/13/42         

 

AUTHORIZATION - PAY $125/MO TO HENRY CRECELIUS – 4/2/43              

AUTHORIZATION - PURCHASE $18.75 BOND/MO

MAUDE CRECELIUS – MAY, 43                

 

LETTER TO WRC ABOUT 4H CLUB TRIP – 9/14/36                                 

 

Letter to Pilots - Service Life Ins – Victorville – 1/19/43                

 

GIBSON CTY 4H TAG – JIM & RANDY                                                      

 

1936 GIBSON CTY FAIR PREMIUM BOOK         

                                               

LIST OF PILOT DO/DON’T FROM STOUT FIELD

INDIANAPOLIS 9/28/42      

 

Ipswich Manson Park Info sheet – WRC 2nd burial site – 11/29/06      

 

Canal Creek Memorial Ceremony info – Peter Murray - 7/24/04           

 

FHS GRADUATION ANNOUNCEMENT – 1945 – Robert Allen Crecelius

 

LIST OF AREA RURAL YOUTH IN SERVICE – WRC LISTED                          

 

LIST OF 4H MEMBERS ON BOAT TRIP - EVILLE-LVILLE FAIR – 9/15/36 PEOPLE OF INTEREST ON THE LIST – Randall Crecelius (leader), Margaret Mans, Faryl Schlamp, Virginia Ivey, Majorie Lehman, Barbara Lehman, Rosemary Lehman, Catherine Arbuthnot, Dottya McConnell, Earlene Henning, Gail Arbuthnot, Dorothy Townsend, Mary Townsend, Myrtle McEllhiney, Esther Bailey, Warner Clem.  Many others on the list I do not know.

 

POST CARD - VEP MOORE – neighbor/friend – ISU math prof – 7/17/35

 

POST CARD TO WRC – 1/7/42                                                                

 

LIST OF 4H CLUB MEMBERS – WRC LEADER.                                           

 

Frankfort, KY – SesquiCentennial Celebration flyer                         

 

Postcard from “Norman” – Univ Ill card    - 10/31/38                          

 

Chemistry & Physics class notebook                                                 

 

1 candle – emergency light?                                                            

 

Brady Aviation School – Problems of Interceptions                          

Brady Aviation School – Transmitters I                                            

Brady Aviation School – Communications Codes/contacts                       

 

Army Air Forces Radio Facility Charts – 10/1/42                                    

Army – Updated Icing info for pilots – Victorville – 12/2/42        

Army – Pilot training – DC-3 Max Load info – 51st TCW     

Army – Fundamentals of Flying – Gunnery Principles – 1942                 

Army – 63rd TCG – airplane braking orders                                            

Army – Army/Henry Crecelus materials relating to returning WRC to Indiana – 4/24/07

          Army Air Forces – Pilot Training Guide – 8/13/42

          Army Air Forces – WRC Flight Officer appointment – 12/20/42             Army Air Forces – C-47 Cockpit Check List –Procedure – 5/5/42                 Army Air Forces – Advanced Flying School Flight Info – 6/9/42    

          Army Air Forces – Directional Finding info – 7/3/42                    

          Army Air Forces – DC-3 Operations                                                         

Engine – Take Off – Propeller Operation – Fuel System Operation – Pilot Information – Misc Controls – Operating Chart - Landing Performance                              

          Army Air Forces – Supplement to DC-3 Operation Info above                  

          Army Air Forces – 52nd TCS Airplane Symbol – Types                   

          Army Air Forces – Instrument Flying – American Airlines

         

WAR DEPARTMENT - Shipping Ticket – Victorville - 3/29/43               

          WAR DEPARTMENT – Shipping Ticket – Victorville – 3/29/43               

          WAR DEPARTMENT – Shipping Ticket – Victorville – 2/26/43               

“FLYER’S PERSONAL EQUIPMENT RECORD - Victorville, CA – 2/26/43 

         

Operations Orders – WRC/others fly plane # 42-15874 (C-53) 52TCS – Dodd Field, TX                                           

         

Plane loading info – weights of various items

         

Receipt for WRC - $16.41 – 2/3/43                                                        

         

Flyer on use of SUB-STRATO OXYGEN MASK – 3/42                               

          WAR DEPT – RECEIPT FOR MISC COLLECTIONS - $85.00 – 9/1/42                

WAR DEPT – RECEIPT FOR MISC CLOTHING

E6B COMPUTOR & life preserver     

         

          52ND TCS – SELFRIDGE FIELD, MI

                                     

          WAR DEPT – TECH MANUAL

          PHYSIOLOGICAL OF FLYING – 7/25/41

                  

          WRC ORDERS TO 63RD TCG – SELFRIDGE FIELD, MI – 8/1/42                       

          WRC PROMOTION TO S/SGT PILOT

          ELLINGTON FIELD, TX – 7/3/42

 

          Transfer - General Mitchell Field – Cudahy, WI (Fond Du Lac)

 

          Receipt for WRC - $5.00 March of Dimes & Red Cross – 3/1/43            

          Receipt for WRC – Jan Dues – $3.00 - 1/11/43                             

 

          Receipt for WRC – Feb Mess Hall - $18.00 – 3/7/43                     

 

          Receipt for WRC – Feb Dues - $3.00 – 2/3/3                                 

 

          Shipping Ticket – tent, pistol…. Victorville, CA – 3/29/43

 

          Memo - “Safeguarding Military Information” – Victorville – 2/4/43     

 

          ARMY TROOP CARRIER COMMAND – 12/20/42                                             

          Appt from Sgt Pilot to Flight Officers                                     

          OFFICER’S QUARTERS STATEMENT – VICTORVILLE, CA – 3/1/43         

          S/Sgt Pilot Crecelius receipt – Dodd Field – 52nd TCS                    

          1 .45cal pistol – 10/1/42

                                                           

          THE FLYING SERGEANT newsletter of Enlisted Pilots Assn – 10/97

          Contacted several listed in the publication

          Notebook for starting engines – flight info                            

          How to get along with people.                                                

          Recognize the rights of others                             

          Recognize the abilities of others                                    

          Be willing and ready to make adjustments                    

          Be willing and ready to meet disappointment and defeat

          Be able to tell the difference between remote rewards and immediate        rewards.         

                            

          Copy of Crash site Police Report.

 

          THE PILOT PSALM                                                                                     

 

          AIR FACTS – MAGAZINE FOR PILOTS – Cessna Aircraft - 11/42                                  

          THE SHEPHERD PSALM – Record that WRC had learned 23rd Psalm                 

          WAR DEPARTMENT

          EQUIPMENT MAINTENANCE POLICIES – 6/8/42                

          WAR DEPARTMENT – H.C. ALLOTMENT $75/MO – 1/1/43                                     

          WAR DEPARTMENT –

          H.C. ALLOTMENT FROM $75/MO TO $125/MO – 6/15/43       

         

          WAR DEPARTMENT – SOLDIER’S HANDBOOK

          FIELD MANUAL -          10/21/40 

 

          WAR DEPARTMENT – WRC RECEIVED PILOT RATING – 6/23/42                    

          WAR DEPARTMENT – Receipt – Clothing – other supplies                        

          Alamo Field, TX – 52nd TCS – 10/13/42                             

         

          Flyer about All Air Force Musical Review “On the Beam”                

          WRC flew cast from San Anita to Victorville for performance

         

          5TH AIR FORCE DVD – AUSTRALIAN MADE

          WWII NEWSREELS – PETER DUNN  

 

          AUSTRALIA AT WAR

          PURCHASED FROM PETER DUNN – 11/29/08           

          MASSIVE COLLECTION OF PICS FROM WWII.                               

         

          THE FOLLOWING ITEMS REFERENCE WRC (POSSIBLY MORE)       

                   D:\ozatwar\22ndtc.htm  WRC CRASH INFO     

                   D:\ozatwar\374thtc.htm  More info on WRC groups

                   D:\ozcrashes\10worst.htm

                   D:\usaaf\dat.htm  WRC HT INFO                                                   

          AIR FORCE – Lineage & Honors for 22nd TCS and 374th TCG

 

          Air Craft Accident report