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Upon his release from prison, Haley again served as president and director for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus of Sarasota from 1946 to 1948. He engaged in newspaper publishing and\nlater in general printing business. He served as chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee of Sarasota County 1935–1952. He was elected and served as member of the Florida House of Representatives from 1949 to 1952. He was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1952, 1956, and 1960.\nHaley was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-third and to the eleven succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1953 – January 3, 1977). He was a member of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, the Hospital Subcommittee of the Veterans Affair Committee, and the Indian Affairs Subcommittee. He served as chairman of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs (Ninety-third\nand Ninety-fourth Congresses). Haley was not a candidate for reelection to the Ninety-fifth Congress in 1976.","Haley died in Sarasota on August 6, 1981 and was interred in Boca Raton Cemetery in Boca Raton,FL. The James A. Haley Veterans Hospital located in Tampa is named for him. ","Sources: U.S. House of Representatives Official Biography and Haley Papers biographical data, 2018","The James A. Haley Papers consist of his personal and political papers. Correspondence, clippings, newsletters, photographs, congressional reports, and awards from various civic and political organizations give insight into Haley's public interests. Photographs of his wife, the Circus and political\naffiliates uncover the many facets of Haley's life. A limited amount of biographical information, including news articles about his death, reflect on how this public figure kept his private life private. Of note is the\nseries about the Hartford Circus fire. ","The Papers are arranged in five collections: Personal, Hartford Circus Fire, Political, Florida House of Representatives, and U.S. Congressional.","The Personal papers, arranged alphabetically by format, consists of calendars, correspondence, newsletters, photographs, awards and other ephemera giving a broad look into Haley's life in and out of office. A limited amount of biographical information, including news articles about his death, is included.","Haley Papers\nCorrespondence, newsletters, and awards from various civic and political organizations show the range of Haley's public interests while the invitations he accepted give a sense of the social life of a congressman in the 1950s-1970s. Congratulatory messages may give insight into who he counted\namong his political allies. The correspondence in this series, 1940-1981, the bulk of which are letters from Haley's time in the U.S. House of Representative (1953-1976) is of a general nature and may not be of a specific topic, but often must still be viewed as official. Since Haley was a public figure, the materials in this series should be viewed in the context that public figures kept their private life private.","The ephemera is mostly three-dimensional objects from Haley's office. The photographs within this series are also generally of an official nature. They are arranged by subject. Of particular note are the\nphotographs of Haley with several U.S. Presidents. Please see a digital exhibit at\nhttp://www.flsouthern.edu/library/mckay-archives/digital-exhibits/haley-presidents.aspx.","The Hartford Circus Fire collection encompasses documentation of the burning of a tent at the Ringling Bros. and Barnum \u0026 Baily Circus in Hartford, Connecticut on July 6, 1944, the loss of 150 lives, and the resulting trial. As first vice president of the Company, James A. Haley took responsibility, was found\nguilty of manslaughter, and served time in a federal prison. The documentation is comprised of, but not limited to, correspondence, news clippings, financial documents and court records. Correspondence takes the form of letters and telegrams with topics between Haley and staff and Haley and lawyers about what happened in the fire and with the trial. There are also letters to Haley while he is in jail, mostly regarding his personal health and welfare. There are extensive newspaper clippings about the fire and the trial. Corporate information includes circus routes, minutes and by-laws. The financial documents are extensive and record the financial standing of the circus, while Court Records consist of trial scripts, pleas, and scripts from the parole hearing. Anyone searching for general understanding of the events of the fire should look at the newspapers, and then the letters and telegrams.","The Political Papers collection concerns Haley's campaigns and party work. As a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Haley was up for reelection every two years. The Campaign Files sub-series contains correspondence, government records, news articles, and other documents related to the subject's political campaigns between 1952 and 1974. Of special interest are the endorsements which how where and from whom he received his political support from.","The Democratic Party sub-collection reflects the subject's involvement with his political party. He served as a delegate to several Democratic National Conventions over the course of his career. He also took an interest in other political races throughout Florida and the nation. This series contains correspondence and newspaper articles concerning elections not specific to the subject, as well as general party information for candidates and booklets produced for the conventions.","The Florida House of Representatives collection encompass Haley's career as the State Representative for Sarasota County in the Florida House of Representatives. Haley held this office from 1948-1952. The materials are arranged in as logical order as possible. There was no discernable order prior to processing as the materials had been housed and rehoused several times since they were donated to the college. Of special note are the materials related to the Haley Committee Investigating Crime, which investigated political corruption and organized crime in the state. The collection also includes materials concerning state issues of the day, as well as issues specific to Sarasota County. Additionally, there are reference materials used by the subject in the performance of his duties. The Haley Committee on Investigating Crime sub-series contains transcripts of hearings, proceedings,\ncorrespondence, and news articles related to this committee, while the Issues sub-series is arranged Haley Papers\nalphabetically and contains correspondence, legislation, news articles, and reference material related to the respective issue. The Reference sub-series contain Florida House and Senate Bill Summaries, Legislative calendars, House and Senate Journals, and roll call votes. And, the Sarasota District subseries contain correspondence, reference materials, and news articles related specifically to that district.","The U.S. Congressional Papers, the largest collection, comprise the political aspects of Haley's US congressional career. The materials are arranged in alphabetical order created by his office. Haley held a seat representing the southwest coast and heartland of Florida from 1953-1977. The materials in this\nseries contain correspondence, articles, government documents, and photographs; they cover nearly every major issue to confront the United States during the 1950s through the 1970s. Of special note is the constituent correspondence, which are letters from citizens to Haley asking for information or help on a variety of topics. Letters and telegrams sent to Haley by citizens in his district give a sense of the\nviews of the general public concerning the issues of the era. Haley's views are expressed in his replies. The materials are arranged alphabetically by issue and date. This arrangement closely corresponds to how they were filed in the subject's office. Please note that even though the files are arranged by issue, some correspondence might also be located in \"catch-all\" categories such as \"Haley Bills: Master File: 83rd Congress: 1953-1954,\"\n\"Correspondence: 19XX,\" to use but two examples. ","The Congressman James A. Haley Papers are owned by Florida Southern College. This collection is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by\nthe copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). Please inquire if you have questions -\narchives@flsouthern.edu. ","Constituent Correspondence files are restricted from publication until 2052","The Sarah D. and L. 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Researchers must contact McKay Archives in advance for access to unprocessed born digital materials in this collection. Collection restrictions, copyright limitations, or technical complications may hinder the SPCUA's ability to provide access to\nunprocessed born digital materials."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe materials in this collection were maintained by the subject's staff by issue and date. With some modifications allowing for clarity, they have been arranged in a similar fashion. However, you will find that individual issues may appear under multiple subject headings. For example, \"Watergate\" may\nappear under its own heading as well as under \"Richard Nixon\" or \"Nixon Administration.\" Please note that even though the files are arranged by issue, some correspondence might also be located in \"catch-all\" categories such as \"Haley Bills: Master File: 83rd Congress: 1953-1954,\"\n\"Correspondence: 19XX,\" to use but two examples.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eJames A. Haley, as chairman of the House Interior Committee during the 1970s, was instrumental in the creation of Big Cypress National Preserve. Franklin Adams lobbied for the establishment of the Big Cypress National Preserve along with many other environmental issues. The Franklin Adams Papers are housed at Florida International University. The Franklin Adams Collection, SPC9000, at Florida International University, Miami. \u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["The materials in this collection were maintained by the subject's staff by issue and date. With some modifications allowing for clarity, they have been arranged in a similar fashion. However, you will find that individual issues may appear under multiple subject headings. For example, \"Watergate\" may\nappear under its own heading as well as under \"Richard Nixon\" or \"Nixon Administration.\" Please note that even though the files are arranged by issue, some correspondence might also be located in \"catch-all\" categories such as \"Haley Bills: Master File: 83rd Congress: 1953-1954,\"\n\"Correspondence: 19XX,\" to use but two examples.","James A. Haley, as chairman of the House Interior Committee during the 1970s, was instrumental in the creation of Big Cypress National Preserve. Franklin Adams lobbied for the establishment of the Big Cypress National Preserve along with many other environmental issues. The Franklin Adams Papers are housed at Florida International University. The Franklin Adams Collection, SPC9000, at Florida International University, Miami. "],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eJames Andrew Haley (January 4, 1899 \u0026#x2013; August 6, 1981) was a U.S. Representative from Florida. Born in Jacksonville, Alabama, Haley attended the public schools and the University of Alabama. He served in the U.S. Army during World War I, and saw combat in France. He was an accountant in Sarasota, Florida, from 1920 to 1933 and served as general manager of the John Ringling estate from 1933 to 1943.\nOn December 4, 1942, Haley married Aubrey Ringling (n\u0026#xE9;e Aubrey Barlow Black), the widow of Richard T. Ringling who had died in 1931. Richard Ringling was the son of one of the original Ringling brothers. From 1943 to 1945, he was the first vice president of Ringling Circus and president and\ndirector of Ringling Brothers, Barnum \u0026amp; Bailey. In 1944, a fire broke out at a Ringling Circus show in Hartford, Connecticut that killed 169 persons. As a result of the fire he and five other circus officials pleaded no contest to charges of involuntary manslaughter and were sentenced to prison. He served\neight months and in 1945 was returned to Florida, where he received a pardon from Governor Millard F. Caldwell. Upon his release from prison, Haley again served as president and director for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus of Sarasota from 1946 to 1948. He engaged in newspaper publishing and\nlater in general printing business. He served as chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee of Sarasota County 1935\u0026#x2013;1952. He was elected and served as member of the Florida House of Representatives from 1949 to 1952. He was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1952, 1956, and 1960.\nHaley was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-third and to the eleven succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1953 \u0026#x2013; January 3, 1977). He was a member of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, the Hospital Subcommittee of the Veterans Affair Committee, and the Indian Affairs Subcommittee. He served as chairman of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs (Ninety-third\nand Ninety-fourth Congresses). Haley was not a candidate for reelection to the Ninety-fifth Congress in 1976.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eHaley died in Sarasota on August 6, 1981 and was interred in Boca Raton Cemetery in Boca Raton,FL. The James A. Haley Veterans Hospital located in Tampa is named for him. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSources: U.S. House of Representatives Official Biography and Haley Papers biographical data, 2018\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["James Andrew Haley (January 4, 1899 – August 6, 1981) was a U.S. Representative from Florida. Born in Jacksonville, Alabama, Haley attended the public schools and the University of Alabama. He served in the U.S. Army during World War I, and saw combat in France. He was an accountant in Sarasota, Florida, from 1920 to 1933 and served as general manager of the John Ringling estate from 1933 to 1943.\nOn December 4, 1942, Haley married Aubrey Ringling (née Aubrey Barlow Black), the widow of Richard T. Ringling who had died in 1931. Richard Ringling was the son of one of the original Ringling brothers. From 1943 to 1945, he was the first vice president of Ringling Circus and president and\ndirector of Ringling Brothers, Barnum \u0026 Bailey. In 1944, a fire broke out at a Ringling Circus show in Hartford, Connecticut that killed 169 persons. As a result of the fire he and five other circus officials pleaded no contest to charges of involuntary manslaughter and were sentenced to prison. He served\neight months and in 1945 was returned to Florida, where he received a pardon from Governor Millard F. Caldwell. Upon his release from prison, Haley again served as president and director for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus of Sarasota from 1946 to 1948. He engaged in newspaper publishing and\nlater in general printing business. He served as chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee of Sarasota County 1935–1952. He was elected and served as member of the Florida House of Representatives from 1949 to 1952. He was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1952, 1956, and 1960.\nHaley was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-third and to the eleven succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1953 – January 3, 1977). He was a member of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, the Hospital Subcommittee of the Veterans Affair Committee, and the Indian Affairs Subcommittee. He served as chairman of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs (Ninety-third\nand Ninety-fourth Congresses). Haley was not a candidate for reelection to the Ninety-fifth Congress in 1976.","Haley died in Sarasota on August 6, 1981 and was interred in Boca Raton Cemetery in Boca Raton,FL. The James A. Haley Veterans Hospital located in Tampa is named for him. ","Sources: U.S. House of Representatives Official Biography and Haley Papers biographical data, 2018"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe James A. Haley Papers consist of his personal and political papers. Correspondence, clippings, newsletters, photographs, congressional reports, and awards from various civic and political organizations give insight into Haley's public interests. Photographs of his wife, the Circus and political\naffiliates uncover the many facets of Haley's life. A limited amount of biographical information, including news articles about his death, reflect on how this public figure kept his private life private. Of note is the\nseries about the Hartford Circus fire. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe Papers are arranged in five collections: Personal, Hartford Circus Fire, Political, Florida House of Representatives, and U.S. Congressional.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe Personal papers, arranged alphabetically by format, consists of calendars, correspondence, newsletters, photographs, awards and other ephemera giving a broad look into Haley's life in and out of office. A limited amount of biographical information, including news articles about his death, is included.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eHaley Papers\nCorrespondence, newsletters, and awards from various civic and political organizations show the range of Haley's public interests while the invitations he accepted give a sense of the social life of a congressman in the 1950s-1970s. Congratulatory messages may give insight into who he counted\namong his political allies. The correspondence in this series, 1940-1981, the bulk of which are letters from Haley's time in the U.S. House of Representative (1953-1976) is of a general nature and may not be of a specific topic, but often must still be viewed as official. Since Haley was a public figure, the materials in this series should be viewed in the context that public figures kept their private life private.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe ephemera is mostly three-dimensional objects from Haley's office. The photographs within this series are also generally of an official nature. They are arranged by subject. Of particular note are the\nphotographs of Haley with several U.S. Presidents. Please see a digital exhibit at\nhttp://www.flsouthern.edu/library/mckay-archives/digital-exhibits/haley-presidents.aspx.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe Hartford Circus Fire collection encompasses documentation of the burning of a tent at the Ringling Bros. and Barnum \u0026amp; Baily Circus in Hartford, Connecticut on July 6, 1944, the loss of 150 lives, and the resulting trial. As first vice president of the Company, James A. Haley took responsibility, was found\nguilty of manslaughter, and served time in a federal prison. The documentation is comprised of, but not limited to, correspondence, news clippings, financial documents and court records. Correspondence takes the form of letters and telegrams with topics between Haley and staff and Haley and lawyers about what happened in the fire and with the trial. There are also letters to Haley while he is in jail, mostly regarding his personal health and welfare. There are extensive newspaper clippings about the fire and the trial. Corporate information includes circus routes, minutes and by-laws. The financial documents are extensive and record the financial standing of the circus, while Court Records consist of trial scripts, pleas, and scripts from the parole hearing. Anyone searching for general understanding of the events of the fire should look at the newspapers, and then the letters and telegrams.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe Political Papers collection concerns Haley's campaigns and party work. As a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Haley was up for reelection every two years. The Campaign Files sub-series contains correspondence, government records, news articles, and other documents related to the subject's political campaigns between 1952 and 1974. Of special interest are the endorsements which how where and from whom he received his political support from.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe Democratic Party sub-collection reflects the subject's involvement with his political party. He served as a delegate to several Democratic National Conventions over the course of his career. He also took an interest in other political races throughout Florida and the nation. This series contains correspondence and newspaper articles concerning elections not specific to the subject, as well as general party information for candidates and booklets produced for the conventions.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe Florida House of Representatives collection encompass Haley's career as the State Representative for Sarasota County in the Florida House of Representatives. Haley held this office from 1948-1952. The materials are arranged in as logical order as possible. There was no discernable order prior to processing as the materials had been housed and rehoused several times since they were donated to the college. Of special note are the materials related to the Haley Committee Investigating Crime, which investigated political corruption and organized crime in the state. The collection also includes materials concerning state issues of the day, as well as issues specific to Sarasota County. Additionally, there are reference materials used by the subject in the performance of his duties. The Haley Committee on Investigating Crime sub-series contains transcripts of hearings, proceedings,\ncorrespondence, and news articles related to this committee, while the Issues sub-series is arranged Haley Papers\nalphabetically and contains correspondence, legislation, news articles, and reference material related to the respective issue. The Reference sub-series contain Florida House and Senate Bill Summaries, Legislative calendars, House and Senate Journals, and roll call votes. And, the Sarasota District subseries contain correspondence, reference materials, and news articles related specifically to that district.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe U.S. Congressional Papers, the largest collection, comprise the political aspects of Haley's US congressional career. The materials are arranged in alphabetical order created by his office. Haley held a seat representing the southwest coast and heartland of Florida from 1953-1977. The materials in this\nseries contain correspondence, articles, government documents, and photographs; they cover nearly every major issue to confront the United States during the 1950s through the 1970s. Of special note is the constituent correspondence, which are letters from citizens to Haley asking for information or help on a variety of topics. Letters and telegrams sent to Haley by citizens in his district give a sense of the\nviews of the general public concerning the issues of the era. Haley's views are expressed in his replies. The materials are arranged alphabetically by issue and date. This arrangement closely corresponds to how they were filed in the subject's office. Please note that even though the files are arranged by issue, some correspondence might also be located in \"catch-all\" categories such as \"Haley Bills: Master File: 83rd Congress: 1953-1954,\"\n\"Correspondence: 19XX,\" to use but two examples. \u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The James A. Haley Papers consist of his personal and political papers. Correspondence, clippings, newsletters, photographs, congressional reports, and awards from various civic and political organizations give insight into Haley's public interests. Photographs of his wife, the Circus and political\naffiliates uncover the many facets of Haley's life. A limited amount of biographical information, including news articles about his death, reflect on how this public figure kept his private life private. Of note is the\nseries about the Hartford Circus fire. ","The Papers are arranged in five collections: Personal, Hartford Circus Fire, Political, Florida House of Representatives, and U.S. Congressional.","The Personal papers, arranged alphabetically by format, consists of calendars, correspondence, newsletters, photographs, awards and other ephemera giving a broad look into Haley's life in and out of office. A limited amount of biographical information, including news articles about his death, is included.","Haley Papers\nCorrespondence, newsletters, and awards from various civic and political organizations show the range of Haley's public interests while the invitations he accepted give a sense of the social life of a congressman in the 1950s-1970s. Congratulatory messages may give insight into who he counted\namong his political allies. The correspondence in this series, 1940-1981, the bulk of which are letters from Haley's time in the U.S. House of Representative (1953-1976) is of a general nature and may not be of a specific topic, but often must still be viewed as official. Since Haley was a public figure, the materials in this series should be viewed in the context that public figures kept their private life private.","The ephemera is mostly three-dimensional objects from Haley's office. The photographs within this series are also generally of an official nature. They are arranged by subject. Of particular note are the\nphotographs of Haley with several U.S. Presidents. Please see a digital exhibit at\nhttp://www.flsouthern.edu/library/mckay-archives/digital-exhibits/haley-presidents.aspx.","The Hartford Circus Fire collection encompasses documentation of the burning of a tent at the Ringling Bros. and Barnum \u0026 Baily Circus in Hartford, Connecticut on July 6, 1944, the loss of 150 lives, and the resulting trial. As first vice president of the Company, James A. Haley took responsibility, was found\nguilty of manslaughter, and served time in a federal prison. The documentation is comprised of, but not limited to, correspondence, news clippings, financial documents and court records. Correspondence takes the form of letters and telegrams with topics between Haley and staff and Haley and lawyers about what happened in the fire and with the trial. There are also letters to Haley while he is in jail, mostly regarding his personal health and welfare. There are extensive newspaper clippings about the fire and the trial. Corporate information includes circus routes, minutes and by-laws. The financial documents are extensive and record the financial standing of the circus, while Court Records consist of trial scripts, pleas, and scripts from the parole hearing. Anyone searching for general understanding of the events of the fire should look at the newspapers, and then the letters and telegrams.","The Political Papers collection concerns Haley's campaigns and party work. As a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Haley was up for reelection every two years. The Campaign Files sub-series contains correspondence, government records, news articles, and other documents related to the subject's political campaigns between 1952 and 1974. Of special interest are the endorsements which how where and from whom he received his political support from.","The Democratic Party sub-collection reflects the subject's involvement with his political party. He served as a delegate to several Democratic National Conventions over the course of his career. He also took an interest in other political races throughout Florida and the nation. This series contains correspondence and newspaper articles concerning elections not specific to the subject, as well as general party information for candidates and booklets produced for the conventions.","The Florida House of Representatives collection encompass Haley's career as the State Representative for Sarasota County in the Florida House of Representatives. Haley held this office from 1948-1952. The materials are arranged in as logical order as possible. There was no discernable order prior to processing as the materials had been housed and rehoused several times since they were donated to the college. Of special note are the materials related to the Haley Committee Investigating Crime, which investigated political corruption and organized crime in the state. The collection also includes materials concerning state issues of the day, as well as issues specific to Sarasota County. Additionally, there are reference materials used by the subject in the performance of his duties. The Haley Committee on Investigating Crime sub-series contains transcripts of hearings, proceedings,\ncorrespondence, and news articles related to this committee, while the Issues sub-series is arranged Haley Papers\nalphabetically and contains correspondence, legislation, news articles, and reference material related to the respective issue. The Reference sub-series contain Florida House and Senate Bill Summaries, Legislative calendars, House and Senate Journals, and roll call votes. And, the Sarasota District subseries contain correspondence, reference materials, and news articles related specifically to that district.","The U.S. Congressional Papers, the largest collection, comprise the political aspects of Haley's US congressional career. The materials are arranged in alphabetical order created by his office. Haley held a seat representing the southwest coast and heartland of Florida from 1953-1977. The materials in this\nseries contain correspondence, articles, government documents, and photographs; they cover nearly every major issue to confront the United States during the 1950s through the 1970s. Of special note is the constituent correspondence, which are letters from citizens to Haley asking for information or help on a variety of topics. Letters and telegrams sent to Haley by citizens in his district give a sense of the\nviews of the general public concerning the issues of the era. Haley's views are expressed in his replies. The materials are arranged alphabetically by issue and date. This arrangement closely corresponds to how they were filed in the subject's office. Please note that even though the files are arranged by issue, some correspondence might also be located in \"catch-all\" categories such as \"Haley Bills: Master File: 83rd Congress: 1953-1954,\"\n\"Correspondence: 19XX,\" to use but two examples. "],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Congressman James A. Haley Papers are owned by Florida Southern College. This collection is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by\nthe copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). Please inquire if you have questions -\narchives@flsouthern.edu. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eConstituent Correspondence files are restricted from publication until 2052\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["The Congressman James A. Haley Papers are owned by Florida Southern College. This collection is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by\nthe copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). Please inquire if you have questions -\narchives@flsouthern.edu. ","Constituent Correspondence files are restricted from publication until 2052"],"names_ssim":["The Sarah D. and L. Kirk McKay, Jr. Archives Center Manuscript Collections","Haley, James A., Congressman "],"corpname_ssim":["The Sarah D. and L. 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His family lived in Tombstone, AZ until 1922 when they moved to Tucson, AZ. While in Tombstone, Sparks' father worked as a conductor on the El Paso Southwestern railroad. Tombstone had about 4000 people at that time. \nSparks started piano lessons in 1923 at age eight. He had lessons until age fifteen. For a short time, he went to school in Phoenix near where his aunt lived. However, he returned to Tucson.  He was invited two summers to a cattle ranch in Northern New Mexico where he had his own horse to ride and helped with the chores. At some point he changed schools and skipped a grade and had a hard time adjusting, missed his friends and did poorly in school. After two years, he graduated and entered Tucson High School in 1929.  \nWhile in high school, Sparks played the piano and participated in Boy Scouts. He worked in grocery stores and drug stores. He tried his own business selling Eskimo Pies to service stations and hospitals. He developed an interest in religion and read the Bible. He thought of becoming a minister.  \nSparks graduated from Tucson High School on May 26, 1933 at the age of eighteen. He wanted to join the army, but his sister persuaded him to do at least one year of college at University of Arizona, and he was admitted in 1933. He attended off and on for about six years.  \nFrom 1933 to 1939, while intermittently going to college, he had various jobs. He tutored the Arizona Boys Chorus from April 1-June 15th, 1933 to make up their school work while they were away on tour. He worked in the Santa Rita Mountains for a government soil erosion center typing reports, was secretary to a lawyer, taught typing at the Deaf and Blind School, worked for the Phantom Ranch in Colorado and the Circle Z Ranch near Patagonia, AZ.  \nIn May of 1938, he was appointed a Park Ranger at the North Rim of the Grand Canyon on the recommendation of Senator Carl Hayden who was a friend of his father's. This was a summer job. He hiked the Grand Canyon from rim to rim and took flights over the canyon with a friend. Those flights over the Canyon inspired Sparks' desire to become a pilot.  \nSparks joined the Army in September 1939. He received a letter of recommendation from the dean at University of Arizona to the Army Air Corp. The letter indicated that he had somewhat more than 2 years of college work at the University of Arizona with a scholarship record above average that included four semesters of military training. He was initially rejected from the Army Air Corp because he was underweight. In February of 1940, he joined the army as enlisted in Ft. Bliss, Texas.  At the time he entered the US Army in Ft. Bliss Texas as an enlisted man, he was employed as an assistant freight agent by the Southern Pacific Railroad which he found to be a dead-end job.  \nAfter a month at Ft. Bliss, Sparks was sent to Fort Ord, CA with the 3rd Infantry division (near Monterey) Another month later, he went to Moffat Field near Mountain View and Sunnyvale. He took leave to visit an Army Air Corp senior officer who recommended him for flying school as he had some college education.  \nSparks spent a total of six months as an enlisted man, then nine months as a flying cadet, one year as a 2nd Lieutenant, two years as a First Lieutenant, two years as a Captain and one year as a Major. Sparks had his primary flight training at Cal Aero in Glendale, California for three months, basic flight training at Randolph Field in Texas for 3 months, and then advanced flight training at Brooks Field in Texas for 3 months. He received his wings as a 2nd Lieutenant in February 8, of 1941. He was in the Army Air Corp Reserves at Kelly Field in San Antonio for a while.  \nIn February of 1941, Sparks was transferred to McChord Field in Washington and was there until May 1941. He was assigned to the 17th Bombardment Group and then the 12th Bombardment Group under Colonel Goodrich, and the 81st Squadron. When he first came to Tacoma in 1941, he met Patricia Fitz (to become his second wife). Sparks also spent some time in Spokane and Redding California (in December 1941) where he met Melba (who became his first wife). Pearl Harbor was bombed in early December and America entered WWII.  \nIn early 1942, Sparks transferred to Esler Field in the middle of Louisiana with the 81st Squadron until May of 1942.  He flew for a month at Wright Paterson in Ohio. In Louisiana, Sparks overshot the runway in a blinding rainstorm while landing. His CO was annoyed and thus made him commanding officer of part of the 11th Bomber Squadron that was sent to Karachi India by boat.  \nSparks left Columbia, South Carolina on a boat, the Santa Paula, in May 1942 travelling around the horn of Africa to India. He was the Commanding Officer of the 11th Bomb Squadron ground echelon. He arrived in Karachi India in July 1942. He helped build a camp in an old Indian armored division while they waited for replacement airplanes to arrive for a couple of months. Finally, seven B-25 bombers arrived, and he flew one to China in October 1942 with co-pilot Jimmy Routt where he joined the China Air Task Force. This was the 11th Bomber Squadron air echelon, stationed in Kunming, China. He participated in a series of bombing raids in eastern China, Hong Kong, Kweilin docks, and Haiphong under General Chenault and Colonel Bayse. He flew 30 combat bombing missions in China until January 1943 when he was transferred to Karachi to serve as a test pilot, formation training officer, and engineering officer for crews arriving in India under Captain Bramwell. He was there until April 1943 when he was sent to Kurmitola, India by train across India to set up an advance refueling station close to Burma.  \nIn July of 1943, Sparks was sent to Raniket for 2 weeks to rest camp in the Himalayas. Upon his return, he joined the 13th Squadron of the Air Transport Command at Chabua, India to fly C-47s over the Hump from India to China for a month. He was then sent to Agra where he ferried B-25 bombers into China. In October of 1943, he flew transports from Chabua to Kunming. He also flew C-47s around India from Bangalore, Andal to Chabua via Calcutta, India. In February 1944, Sparks was promoted to Captain and ordered to come home. He came home via Khartoum on a C47, Accra Africa on a C87, to Natal Brazil on a C-46 and then to Miami. ","\nArriving back in the US, he went home to see his family, then out to California to see Melba to propose marriage, but then had to quickly return Berry field in Nashville, Tennessee.  In Nashville, TN, he had the job of interviewing incoming pilots from overseas and reporting their qualifications to Cincinnati headquarters of the ferrying division of the Air Transport Command. He quite enjoyed this and did his best to get them stationed in jobs that they wanted.  \nHe married Melba Joyce Gloeckler on May 27, 1944 in Porterville, Calif. No members of his family were present. He had to return immediately to Nashville while she stayed in Los Angeles, and he found a place for them to live. They survived the summer in Nashville by sleeping in the basement of their rental house until he was assigned to Long Beach California in the fall. They drove there by car. They rented an apartment near the ocean and enjoyed swimming and dancing during time off.  \nSparks went on a long trip ferrying a B-24 heavy bomber to Australia a short time after he had been in Long Beach. He was gone almost a month and felt very lonesome. He flew to Hawaii, Canton, New Caledonia, Suara, Indonesia, and Ipswich and Brisbane, Australia. He liked Brisbane but only had three days there. He then flew back in a C-54.  \nSparks was transferred to Stockton, CA in July 1945 (while his wife stayed on Long Beach). He flew C-47s in the Military Transport Division for four months, transporting war wounded to hospitals around the country. He obtained a commercial pilot's license in October 1945. In early 1946, his instrument rating indicated that he had logged over 1000 flying hours. However, in his journal, he indicated that he had over 2000 flying hours.  \nIn late February 1946, Sparks drove out to the airfield in Stockton, California and shot himself through the left nipple with his 45-caliber service pistol. This was around the 5th anniversary of his becoming a pilot. He slumped forward onto the car horn and a passing farmer heard it and put him in the back of a hay wagon and drove him to the hospital. He was transferred to Letterman General Hospital in San Francisco where he remained until June 1946. Sparks received a promotion to Major.  His wife, Melba, then took him to a hospital in Long Beach where he received several electroshock treatments for depression and was finally discharged from the hospital in December 1946.  \nIn September 1946 he had a leave from the hospital and Sparks and Melba travelled about 3000 miles by car to Yellowstone, Yosemite, Grants Park, and Sequoia National Parks over a period of three weeks. He said in his diary that: \"We had decided before I left the hospital, we could not in all fairness hold our marriage together.\" \"We remained the best of friends and I used to send Melba gifts and money whenever she needed it.\"  \nIn December of 1946, Sparks spent Christmas with the Sparks family in Tucson, and Miami. Melba was not with him. He returned to his old room in his parent's home in Tucson. Melba filed for and was granted a divorce on January 23, 1947 in Los Angeles. Sparks received an honorable discharge from the Army Air Corp with the rank of Major in February 1947. ","Sparks moved to Tucson and spent most of 1947 and 1948 taking several college courses. On February 4, 1949, he married Patricia H. Fitz. He originally met her in Tacoma in 1941 and then became reacquainted with her in 1948 when they both were living in Tucson Arizona.  Sparks returned to college full time on the GI Bill and obtained a BA in business administration.  \nThe Sparks had two daughters, Patricia Jo Sparks in 1950 and Terri Lee Sparks in 1955. The Sparks were married for 45 years. Patricia cared for Joe throughout his many years of illness and was the primary wage earner of the family. His two daughters attended college, helped in part by the GI bill. His oldest daughter, Patricia obtained an MD degree in 1975 and practiced medicine as a specialist for 30 years. Their youngest daughter, Terri, obtained a master's degree in education and worked as a primary school teacher until her retirement.  \nSparks continued to suffer from bipolar disorder, primarily major depression. After 1960, he could not maintain employment and his disability assessment by the Veterans Administration was increase to 100% service-connected disability. Sparks passed away in 1994 at the age of 78 of kidney failure due to lithium toxicity.","Transferred from the Institute on World War II and the Human Experience to FSU Libraries Special Collections \u0026 Archives in July 2022.","This collection relates to Captain Joe Gray Sparks who served as a pilot with the 11 Bomb Squadron in the Pacific Theater during World War II.  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This was a summer job. He hiked the Grand Canyon from rim to rim and took flights over the canyon with a friend. Those flights over the Canyon inspired Sparks' desire to become a pilot.  \nSparks joined the Army in September 1939. He received a letter of recommendation from the dean at University of Arizona to the Army Air Corp. The letter indicated that he had somewhat more than 2 years of college work at the University of Arizona with a scholarship record above average that included four semesters of military training. He was initially rejected from the Army Air Corp because he was underweight. In February of 1940, he joined the army as enlisted in Ft. Bliss, Texas.  At the time he entered the US Army in Ft. Bliss Texas as an enlisted man, he was employed as an assistant freight agent by the Southern Pacific Railroad which he found to be a dead-end job.  \nAfter a month at Ft. 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He was assigned to the 17th Bombardment Group and then the 12th Bombardment Group under Colonel Goodrich, and the 81st Squadron. When he first came to Tacoma in 1941, he met Patricia Fitz (to become his second wife). Sparks also spent some time in Spokane and Redding California (in December 1941) where he met Melba (who became his first wife). Pearl Harbor was bombed in early December and America entered WWII.  \nIn early 1942, Sparks transferred to Esler Field in the middle of Louisiana with the 81st Squadron until May of 1942.  He flew for a month at Wright Paterson in Ohio. In Louisiana, Sparks overshot the runway in a blinding rainstorm while landing. His CO was annoyed and thus made him commanding officer of part of the 11th Bomber Squadron that was sent to Karachi India by boat.  \nSparks left Columbia, South Carolina on a boat, the Santa Paula, in May 1942 travelling around the horn of Africa to India. He was the Commanding Officer of the 11th Bomb Squadron ground echelon. He arrived in Karachi India in July 1942. He helped build a camp in an old Indian armored division while they waited for replacement airplanes to arrive for a couple of months. Finally, seven B-25 bombers arrived, and he flew one to China in October 1942 with co-pilot Jimmy Routt where he joined the China Air Task Force. This was the 11th Bomber Squadron air echelon, stationed in Kunming, China. He participated in a series of bombing raids in eastern China, Hong Kong, Kweilin docks, and Haiphong under General Chenault and Colonel Bayse. He flew 30 combat bombing missions in China until January 1943 when he was transferred to Karachi to serve as a test pilot, formation training officer, and engineering officer for crews arriving in India under Captain Bramwell. He was there until April 1943 when he was sent to Kurmitola, India by train across India to set up an advance refueling station close to Burma.  \nIn July of 1943, Sparks was sent to Raniket for 2 weeks to rest camp in the Himalayas. Upon his return, he joined the 13th Squadron of the Air Transport Command at Chabua, India to fly C-47s over the Hump from India to China for a month. He was then sent to Agra where he ferried B-25 bombers into China. In October of 1943, he flew transports from Chabua to Kunming. He also flew C-47s around India from Bangalore, Andal to Chabua via Calcutta, India. In February 1944, Sparks was promoted to Captain and ordered to come home. He came home via Khartoum on a C47, Accra Africa on a C87, to Natal Brazil on a C-46 and then to Miami. ","\nArriving back in the US, he went home to see his family, then out to California to see Melba to propose marriage, but then had to quickly return Berry field in Nashville, Tennessee.  In Nashville, TN, he had the job of interviewing incoming pilots from overseas and reporting their qualifications to Cincinnati headquarters of the ferrying division of the Air Transport Command. He quite enjoyed this and did his best to get them stationed in jobs that they wanted.  \nHe married Melba Joyce Gloeckler on May 27, 1944 in Porterville, Calif. No members of his family were present. He had to return immediately to Nashville while she stayed in Los Angeles, and he found a place for them to live. They survived the summer in Nashville by sleeping in the basement of their rental house until he was assigned to Long Beach California in the fall. They drove there by car. They rented an apartment near the ocean and enjoyed swimming and dancing during time off.  \nSparks went on a long trip ferrying a B-24 heavy bomber to Australia a short time after he had been in Long Beach. He was gone almost a month and felt very lonesome. He flew to Hawaii, Canton, New Caledonia, Suara, Indonesia, and Ipswich and Brisbane, Australia. He liked Brisbane but only had three days there. He then flew back in a C-54.  \nSparks was transferred to Stockton, CA in July 1945 (while his wife stayed on Long Beach). He flew C-47s in the Military Transport Division for four months, transporting war wounded to hospitals around the country. He obtained a commercial pilot's license in October 1945. In early 1946, his instrument rating indicated that he had logged over 1000 flying hours. However, in his journal, he indicated that he had over 2000 flying hours.  \nIn late February 1946, Sparks drove out to the airfield in Stockton, California and shot himself through the left nipple with his 45-caliber service pistol. This was around the 5th anniversary of his becoming a pilot. He slumped forward onto the car horn and a passing farmer heard it and put him in the back of a hay wagon and drove him to the hospital. He was transferred to Letterman General Hospital in San Francisco where he remained until June 1946. Sparks received a promotion to Major.  His wife, Melba, then took him to a hospital in Long Beach where he received several electroshock treatments for depression and was finally discharged from the hospital in December 1946.  \nIn September 1946 he had a leave from the hospital and Sparks and Melba travelled about 3000 miles by car to Yellowstone, Yosemite, Grants Park, and Sequoia National Parks over a period of three weeks. He said in his diary that: \"We had decided before I left the hospital, we could not in all fairness hold our marriage together.\" \"We remained the best of friends and I used to send Melba gifts and money whenever she needed it.\"  \nIn December of 1946, Sparks spent Christmas with the Sparks family in Tucson, and Miami. Melba was not with him. He returned to his old room in his parent's home in Tucson. Melba filed for and was granted a divorce on January 23, 1947 in Los Angeles. Sparks received an honorable discharge from the Army Air Corp with the rank of Major in February 1947. ","Sparks moved to Tucson and spent most of 1947 and 1948 taking several college courses. On February 4, 1949, he married Patricia H. Fitz. He originally met her in Tacoma in 1941 and then became reacquainted with her in 1948 when they both were living in Tucson Arizona.  Sparks returned to college full time on the GI Bill and obtained a BA in business administration.  \nThe Sparks had two daughters, Patricia Jo Sparks in 1950 and Terri Lee Sparks in 1955. The Sparks were married for 45 years. Patricia cared for Joe throughout his many years of illness and was the primary wage earner of the family. His two daughters attended college, helped in part by the GI bill. His oldest daughter, Patricia obtained an MD degree in 1975 and practiced medicine as a specialist for 30 years. Their youngest daughter, Terri, obtained a master's degree in education and worked as a primary school teacher until her retirement.  \nSparks continued to suffer from bipolar disorder, primarily major depression. After 1960, he could not maintain employment and his disability assessment by the Veterans Administration was increase to 100% service-connected disability. 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While in Tombstone, Sparks' father worked as a conductor on the El Paso Southwestern railroad. Tombstone had about 4000 people at that time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nSparks started piano lessons in 1923 at age eight. He had lessons until age fifteen. For a short time, he went to school in Phoenix near where his aunt lived. However, he returned to Tucson.  He was invited two summers to a cattle ranch in Northern New Mexico where he had his own horse to ride and helped with the chores. At some point he changed schools and skipped a grade and had a hard time adjusting, missed his friends and did poorly in school. After two years, he graduated and entered Tucson High School in 1929. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nWhile in high school, Sparks played the piano and participated in Boy Scouts. He worked in grocery stores and drug stores. He tried his own business selling Eskimo Pies to service stations and hospitals. He developed an interest in religion and read the Bible. He thought of becoming a minister. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nSparks graduated from Tucson High School on May 26, 1933 at the age of eighteen. He wanted to join the army, but his sister persuaded him to do at least one year of college at University of Arizona, and he was admitted in 1933. He attended off and on for about six years. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nFrom 1933 to 1939, while intermittently going to college, he had various jobs. He tutored the Arizona Boys Chorus from April 1-June 15th, 1933 to make up their school work while they were away on tour. He worked in the Santa Rita Mountains for a government soil erosion center typing reports, was secretary to a lawyer, taught typing at the Deaf and Blind School, worked for the Phantom Ranch in Colorado and the Circle Z Ranch near Patagonia, AZ. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nIn May of 1938, he was appointed a Park Ranger at the North Rim of the Grand Canyon on the recommendation of Senator Carl Hayden who was a friend of his father's. This was a summer job. He hiked the Grand Canyon from rim to rim and took flights over the canyon with a friend. Those flights over the Canyon inspired Sparks' desire to become a pilot. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nSparks joined the Army in September 1939. He received a letter of recommendation from the dean at University of Arizona to the Army Air Corp. The letter indicated that he had somewhat more than 2 years of college work at the University of Arizona with a scholarship record above average that included four semesters of military training. He was initially rejected from the Army Air Corp because he was underweight. In February of 1940, he joined the army as enlisted in Ft. Bliss, Texas.  At the time he entered the US Army in Ft. Bliss Texas as an enlisted man, he was employed as an assistant freight agent by the Southern Pacific Railroad which he found to be a dead-end job. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nAfter a month at Ft. Bliss, Sparks was sent to Fort Ord, CA with the 3rd Infantry division (near Monterey) Another month later, he went to Moffat Field near Mountain View and Sunnyvale. He took leave to visit an Army Air Corp senior officer who recommended him for flying school as he had some college education. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nSparks spent a total of six months as an enlisted man, then nine months as a flying cadet, one year as a 2nd Lieutenant, two years as a First Lieutenant, two years as a Captain and one year as a Major. Sparks had his primary flight training at Cal Aero in Glendale, California for three months, basic flight training at Randolph Field in Texas for 3 months, and then advanced flight training at Brooks Field in Texas for 3 months. He received his wings as a 2nd Lieutenant in February 8, of 1941. He was in the Army Air Corp Reserves at Kelly Field in San Antonio for a while. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nIn February of 1941, Sparks was transferred to McChord Field in Washington and was there until May 1941. He was assigned to the 17th Bombardment Group and then the 12th Bombardment Group under Colonel Goodrich, and the 81st Squadron. When he first came to Tacoma in 1941, he met Patricia Fitz (to become his second wife). Sparks also spent some time in Spokane and Redding California (in December 1941) where he met Melba (who became his first wife). Pearl Harbor was bombed in early December and America entered WWII. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nIn early 1942, Sparks transferred to Esler Field in the middle of Louisiana with the 81st Squadron until May of 1942.  He flew for a month at Wright Paterson in Ohio. In Louisiana, Sparks overshot the runway in a blinding rainstorm while landing. His CO was annoyed and thus made him commanding officer of part of the 11th Bomber Squadron that was sent to Karachi India by boat. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nSparks left Columbia, South Carolina on a boat, the Santa Paula, in May 1942 travelling around the horn of Africa to India. He was the Commanding Officer of the 11th Bomb Squadron ground echelon. He arrived in Karachi India in July 1942. He helped build a camp in an old Indian armored division while they waited for replacement airplanes to arrive for a couple of months. Finally, seven B-25 bombers arrived, and he flew one to China in October 1942 with co-pilot Jimmy Routt where he joined the China Air Task Force. This was the 11th Bomber Squadron air echelon, stationed in Kunming, China. He participated in a series of bombing raids in eastern China, Hong Kong, Kweilin docks, and Haiphong under General Chenault and Colonel Bayse. He flew 30 combat bombing missions in China until January 1943 when he was transferred to Karachi to serve as a test pilot, formation training officer, and engineering officer for crews arriving in India under Captain Bramwell. He was there until April 1943 when he was sent to Kurmitola, India by train across India to set up an advance refueling station close to Burma. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nIn July of 1943, Sparks was sent to Raniket for 2 weeks to rest camp in the Himalayas. Upon his return, he joined the 13th Squadron of the Air Transport Command at Chabua, India to fly C-47s over the Hump from India to China for a month. He was then sent to Agra where he ferried B-25 bombers into China. In October of 1943, he flew transports from Chabua to Kunming. He also flew C-47s around India from Bangalore, Andal to Chabua via Calcutta, India. In February 1944, Sparks was promoted to Captain and ordered to come home. He came home via Khartoum on a C47, Accra Africa on a C87, to Natal Brazil on a C-46 and then to Miami. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nArriving back in the US, he went home to see his family, then out to California to see Melba to propose marriage, but then had to quickly return Berry field in Nashville, Tennessee.  In Nashville, TN, he had the job of interviewing incoming pilots from overseas and reporting their qualifications to Cincinnati headquarters of the ferrying division of the Air Transport Command. He quite enjoyed this and did his best to get them stationed in jobs that they wanted. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nHe married Melba Joyce Gloeckler on May 27, 1944 in Porterville, Calif. No members of his family were present. He had to return immediately to Nashville while she stayed in Los Angeles, and he found a place for them to live. They survived the summer in Nashville by sleeping in the basement of their rental house until he was assigned to Long Beach California in the fall. They drove there by car. They rented an apartment near the ocean and enjoyed swimming and dancing during time off. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nSparks went on a long trip ferrying a B-24 heavy bomber to Australia a short time after he had been in Long Beach. He was gone almost a month and felt very lonesome. He flew to Hawaii, Canton, New Caledonia, Suara, Indonesia, and Ipswich and Brisbane, Australia. He liked Brisbane but only had three days there. He then flew back in a C-54. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nSparks was transferred to Stockton, CA in July 1945 (while his wife stayed on Long Beach). He flew C-47s in the Military Transport Division for four months, transporting war wounded to hospitals around the country. He obtained a commercial pilot's license in October 1945. In early 1946, his instrument rating indicated that he had logged over 1000 flying hours. However, in his journal, he indicated that he had over 2000 flying hours. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nIn late February 1946, Sparks drove out to the airfield in Stockton, California and shot himself through the left nipple with his 45-caliber service pistol. This was around the 5th anniversary of his becoming a pilot. He slumped forward onto the car horn and a passing farmer heard it and put him in the back of a hay wagon and drove him to the hospital. He was transferred to Letterman General Hospital in San Francisco where he remained until June 1946. Sparks received a promotion to Major.  His wife, Melba, then took him to a hospital in Long Beach where he received several electroshock treatments for depression and was finally discharged from the hospital in December 1946. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nIn September 1946 he had a leave from the hospital and Sparks and Melba travelled about 3000 miles by car to Yellowstone, Yosemite, Grants Park, and Sequoia National Parks over a period of three weeks. He said in his diary that: \"We had decided before I left the hospital, we could not in all fairness hold our marriage together.\" \"We remained the best of friends and I used to send Melba gifts and money whenever she needed it.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nIn December of 1946, Sparks spent Christmas with the Sparks family in Tucson, and Miami. Melba was not with him. He returned to his old room in his parent's home in Tucson. Melba filed for and was granted a divorce on January 23, 1947 in Los Angeles. Sparks received an honorable discharge from the Army Air Corp with the rank of Major in February 1947. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSparks moved to Tucson and spent most of 1947 and 1948 taking several college courses. On February 4, 1949, he married Patricia H. Fitz. He originally met her in Tacoma in 1941 and then became reacquainted with her in 1948 when they both were living in Tucson Arizona.  Sparks returned to college full time on the GI Bill and obtained a BA in business administration. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Sparks had two daughters, Patricia Jo Sparks in 1950 and Terri Lee Sparks in 1955. The Sparks were married for 45 years. Patricia cared for Joe throughout his many years of illness and was the primary wage earner of the family. His two daughters attended college, helped in part by the GI bill. His oldest daughter, Patricia obtained an MD degree in 1975 and practiced medicine as a specialist for 30 years. Their youngest daughter, Terri, obtained a master's degree in education and worked as a primary school teacher until her retirement. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nSparks continued to suffer from bipolar disorder, primarily major depression. After 1960, he could not maintain employment and his disability assessment by the Veterans Administration was increase to 100% service-connected disability. 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His family lived in Tombstone, AZ until 1922 when they moved to Tucson, AZ. While in Tombstone, Sparks' father worked as a conductor on the El Paso Southwestern railroad. Tombstone had about 4000 people at that time. \nSparks started piano lessons in 1923 at age eight. He had lessons until age fifteen. For a short time, he went to school in Phoenix near where his aunt lived. However, he returned to Tucson.  He was invited two summers to a cattle ranch in Northern New Mexico where he had his own horse to ride and helped with the chores. At some point he changed schools and skipped a grade and had a hard time adjusting, missed his friends and did poorly in school. After two years, he graduated and entered Tucson High School in 1929.  \nWhile in high school, Sparks played the piano and participated in Boy Scouts. He worked in grocery stores and drug stores. He tried his own business selling Eskimo Pies to service stations and hospitals. He developed an interest in religion and read the Bible. He thought of becoming a minister.  \nSparks graduated from Tucson High School on May 26, 1933 at the age of eighteen. He wanted to join the army, but his sister persuaded him to do at least one year of college at University of Arizona, and he was admitted in 1933. He attended off and on for about six years.  \nFrom 1933 to 1939, while intermittently going to college, he had various jobs. He tutored the Arizona Boys Chorus from April 1-June 15th, 1933 to make up their school work while they were away on tour. He worked in the Santa Rita Mountains for a government soil erosion center typing reports, was secretary to a lawyer, taught typing at the Deaf and Blind School, worked for the Phantom Ranch in Colorado and the Circle Z Ranch near Patagonia, AZ.  \nIn May of 1938, he was appointed a Park Ranger at the North Rim of the Grand Canyon on the recommendation of Senator Carl Hayden who was a friend of his father's. This was a summer job. He hiked the Grand Canyon from rim to rim and took flights over the canyon with a friend. Those flights over the Canyon inspired Sparks' desire to become a pilot.  \nSparks joined the Army in September 1939. He received a letter of recommendation from the dean at University of Arizona to the Army Air Corp. The letter indicated that he had somewhat more than 2 years of college work at the University of Arizona with a scholarship record above average that included four semesters of military training. He was initially rejected from the Army Air Corp because he was underweight. In February of 1940, he joined the army as enlisted in Ft. Bliss, Texas.  At the time he entered the US Army in Ft. Bliss Texas as an enlisted man, he was employed as an assistant freight agent by the Southern Pacific Railroad which he found to be a dead-end job.  \nAfter a month at Ft. Bliss, Sparks was sent to Fort Ord, CA with the 3rd Infantry division (near Monterey) Another month later, he went to Moffat Field near Mountain View and Sunnyvale. He took leave to visit an Army Air Corp senior officer who recommended him for flying school as he had some college education.  \nSparks spent a total of six months as an enlisted man, then nine months as a flying cadet, one year as a 2nd Lieutenant, two years as a First Lieutenant, two years as a Captain and one year as a Major. Sparks had his primary flight training at Cal Aero in Glendale, California for three months, basic flight training at Randolph Field in Texas for 3 months, and then advanced flight training at Brooks Field in Texas for 3 months. He received his wings as a 2nd Lieutenant in February 8, of 1941. He was in the Army Air Corp Reserves at Kelly Field in San Antonio for a while.  \nIn February of 1941, Sparks was transferred to McChord Field in Washington and was there until May 1941. He was assigned to the 17th Bombardment Group and then the 12th Bombardment Group under Colonel Goodrich, and the 81st Squadron. When he first came to Tacoma in 1941, he met Patricia Fitz (to become his second wife). Sparks also spent some time in Spokane and Redding California (in December 1941) where he met Melba (who became his first wife). Pearl Harbor was bombed in early December and America entered WWII.  \nIn early 1942, Sparks transferred to Esler Field in the middle of Louisiana with the 81st Squadron until May of 1942.  He flew for a month at Wright Paterson in Ohio. In Louisiana, Sparks overshot the runway in a blinding rainstorm while landing. His CO was annoyed and thus made him commanding officer of part of the 11th Bomber Squadron that was sent to Karachi India by boat.  \nSparks left Columbia, South Carolina on a boat, the Santa Paula, in May 1942 travelling around the horn of Africa to India. He was the Commanding Officer of the 11th Bomb Squadron ground echelon. He arrived in Karachi India in July 1942. He helped build a camp in an old Indian armored division while they waited for replacement airplanes to arrive for a couple of months. Finally, seven B-25 bombers arrived, and he flew one to China in October 1942 with co-pilot Jimmy Routt where he joined the China Air Task Force. This was the 11th Bomber Squadron air echelon, stationed in Kunming, China. He participated in a series of bombing raids in eastern China, Hong Kong, Kweilin docks, and Haiphong under General Chenault and Colonel Bayse. He flew 30 combat bombing missions in China until January 1943 when he was transferred to Karachi to serve as a test pilot, formation training officer, and engineering officer for crews arriving in India under Captain Bramwell. He was there until April 1943 when he was sent to Kurmitola, India by train across India to set up an advance refueling station close to Burma.  \nIn July of 1943, Sparks was sent to Raniket for 2 weeks to rest camp in the Himalayas. Upon his return, he joined the 13th Squadron of the Air Transport Command at Chabua, India to fly C-47s over the Hump from India to China for a month. He was then sent to Agra where he ferried B-25 bombers into China. In October of 1943, he flew transports from Chabua to Kunming. He also flew C-47s around India from Bangalore, Andal to Chabua via Calcutta, India. In February 1944, Sparks was promoted to Captain and ordered to come home. He came home via Khartoum on a C47, Accra Africa on a C87, to Natal Brazil on a C-46 and then to Miami. ","\nArriving back in the US, he went home to see his family, then out to California to see Melba to propose marriage, but then had to quickly return Berry field in Nashville, Tennessee.  In Nashville, TN, he had the job of interviewing incoming pilots from overseas and reporting their qualifications to Cincinnati headquarters of the ferrying division of the Air Transport Command. He quite enjoyed this and did his best to get them stationed in jobs that they wanted.  \nHe married Melba Joyce Gloeckler on May 27, 1944 in Porterville, Calif. No members of his family were present. He had to return immediately to Nashville while she stayed in Los Angeles, and he found a place for them to live. They survived the summer in Nashville by sleeping in the basement of their rental house until he was assigned to Long Beach California in the fall. They drove there by car. They rented an apartment near the ocean and enjoyed swimming and dancing during time off.  \nSparks went on a long trip ferrying a B-24 heavy bomber to Australia a short time after he had been in Long Beach. He was gone almost a month and felt very lonesome. He flew to Hawaii, Canton, New Caledonia, Suara, Indonesia, and Ipswich and Brisbane, Australia. He liked Brisbane but only had three days there. He then flew back in a C-54.  \nSparks was transferred to Stockton, CA in July 1945 (while his wife stayed on Long Beach). He flew C-47s in the Military Transport Division for four months, transporting war wounded to hospitals around the country. He obtained a commercial pilot's license in October 1945. In early 1946, his instrument rating indicated that he had logged over 1000 flying hours. However, in his journal, he indicated that he had over 2000 flying hours.  \nIn late February 1946, Sparks drove out to the airfield in Stockton, California and shot himself through the left nipple with his 45-caliber service pistol. This was around the 5th anniversary of his becoming a pilot. He slumped forward onto the car horn and a passing farmer heard it and put him in the back of a hay wagon and drove him to the hospital. He was transferred to Letterman General Hospital in San Francisco where he remained until June 1946. Sparks received a promotion to Major.  His wife, Melba, then took him to a hospital in Long Beach where he received several electroshock treatments for depression and was finally discharged from the hospital in December 1946.  \nIn September 1946 he had a leave from the hospital and Sparks and Melba travelled about 3000 miles by car to Yellowstone, Yosemite, Grants Park, and Sequoia National Parks over a period of three weeks. He said in his diary that: \"We had decided before I left the hospital, we could not in all fairness hold our marriage together.\" \"We remained the best of friends and I used to send Melba gifts and money whenever she needed it.\"  \nIn December of 1946, Sparks spent Christmas with the Sparks family in Tucson, and Miami. Melba was not with him. He returned to his old room in his parent's home in Tucson. Melba filed for and was granted a divorce on January 23, 1947 in Los Angeles. Sparks received an honorable discharge from the Army Air Corp with the rank of Major in February 1947. ","Sparks moved to Tucson and spent most of 1947 and 1948 taking several college courses. On February 4, 1949, he married Patricia H. Fitz. He originally met her in Tacoma in 1941 and then became reacquainted with her in 1948 when they both were living in Tucson Arizona.  Sparks returned to college full time on the GI Bill and obtained a BA in business administration.  \nThe Sparks had two daughters, Patricia Jo Sparks in 1950 and Terri Lee Sparks in 1955. The Sparks were married for 45 years. Patricia cared for Joe throughout his many years of illness and was the primary wage earner of the family. His two daughters attended college, helped in part by the GI bill. His oldest daughter, Patricia obtained an MD degree in 1975 and practiced medicine as a specialist for 30 years. Their youngest daughter, Terri, obtained a master's degree in education and worked as a primary school teacher until her retirement.  \nSparks continued to suffer from bipolar disorder, primarily major depression. After 1960, he could not maintain employment and his disability assessment by the Veterans Administration was increase to 100% service-connected disability. Sparks passed away in 1994 at the age of 78 of kidney failure due to lithium toxicity.","Transferred from the Institute on World War II and the Human Experience to FSU Libraries Special Collections \u0026 Archives in July 2022.","This collection relates to Captain Joe Gray Sparks who served as a pilot with the 11 Bomb Squadron in the Pacific Theater during World War II.  This collection includes a flash memory drive containing scanned copies of letters, documents, photographs, manuscript biography, newspaper articles, and artifacts that belonged to Sparks.","All requests for permission to quote, publish, broadcast or otherwise reproduce from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Associate Dean for Special Collections \u0026 Archives. 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His family lived in Tombstone, AZ until 1922 when they moved to Tucson, AZ. While in Tombstone, Sparks' father worked as a conductor on the El Paso Southwestern railroad. Tombstone had about 4000 people at that time. \nSparks started piano lessons in 1923 at age eight. He had lessons until age fifteen. For a short time, he went to school in Phoenix near where his aunt lived. However, he returned to Tucson.  He was invited two summers to a cattle ranch in Northern New Mexico where he had his own horse to ride and helped with the chores. At some point he changed schools and skipped a grade and had a hard time adjusting, missed his friends and did poorly in school. After two years, he graduated and entered Tucson High School in 1929.  \nWhile in high school, Sparks played the piano and participated in Boy Scouts. He worked in grocery stores and drug stores. He tried his own business selling Eskimo Pies to service stations and hospitals. He developed an interest in religion and read the Bible. He thought of becoming a minister.  \nSparks graduated from Tucson High School on May 26, 1933 at the age of eighteen. He wanted to join the army, but his sister persuaded him to do at least one year of college at University of Arizona, and he was admitted in 1933. He attended off and on for about six years.  \nFrom 1933 to 1939, while intermittently going to college, he had various jobs. He tutored the Arizona Boys Chorus from April 1-June 15th, 1933 to make up their school work while they were away on tour. He worked in the Santa Rita Mountains for a government soil erosion center typing reports, was secretary to a lawyer, taught typing at the Deaf and Blind School, worked for the Phantom Ranch in Colorado and the Circle Z Ranch near Patagonia, AZ.  \nIn May of 1938, he was appointed a Park Ranger at the North Rim of the Grand Canyon on the recommendation of Senator Carl Hayden who was a friend of his father's. This was a summer job. He hiked the Grand Canyon from rim to rim and took flights over the canyon with a friend. Those flights over the Canyon inspired Sparks' desire to become a pilot.  \nSparks joined the Army in September 1939. He received a letter of recommendation from the dean at University of Arizona to the Army Air Corp. The letter indicated that he had somewhat more than 2 years of college work at the University of Arizona with a scholarship record above average that included four semesters of military training. He was initially rejected from the Army Air Corp because he was underweight. In February of 1940, he joined the army as enlisted in Ft. Bliss, Texas.  At the time he entered the US Army in Ft. Bliss Texas as an enlisted man, he was employed as an assistant freight agent by the Southern Pacific Railroad which he found to be a dead-end job.  \nAfter a month at Ft. Bliss, Sparks was sent to Fort Ord, CA with the 3rd Infantry division (near Monterey) Another month later, he went to Moffat Field near Mountain View and Sunnyvale. He took leave to visit an Army Air Corp senior officer who recommended him for flying school as he had some college education.  \nSparks spent a total of six months as an enlisted man, then nine months as a flying cadet, one year as a 2nd Lieutenant, two years as a First Lieutenant, two years as a Captain and one year as a Major. Sparks had his primary flight training at Cal Aero in Glendale, California for three months, basic flight training at Randolph Field in Texas for 3 months, and then advanced flight training at Brooks Field in Texas for 3 months. He received his wings as a 2nd Lieutenant in February 8, of 1941. He was in the Army Air Corp Reserves at Kelly Field in San Antonio for a while.  \nIn February of 1941, Sparks was transferred to McChord Field in Washington and was there until May 1941. He was assigned to the 17th Bombardment Group and then the 12th Bombardment Group under Colonel Goodrich, and the 81st Squadron. When he first came to Tacoma in 1941, he met Patricia Fitz (to become his second wife). Sparks also spent some time in Spokane and Redding California (in December 1941) where he met Melba (who became his first wife). Pearl Harbor was bombed in early December and America entered WWII.  \nIn early 1942, Sparks transferred to Esler Field in the middle of Louisiana with the 81st Squadron until May of 1942.  He flew for a month at Wright Paterson in Ohio. In Louisiana, Sparks overshot the runway in a blinding rainstorm while landing. His CO was annoyed and thus made him commanding officer of part of the 11th Bomber Squadron that was sent to Karachi India by boat.  \nSparks left Columbia, South Carolina on a boat, the Santa Paula, in May 1942 travelling around the horn of Africa to India. He was the Commanding Officer of the 11th Bomb Squadron ground echelon. He arrived in Karachi India in July 1942. He helped build a camp in an old Indian armored division while they waited for replacement airplanes to arrive for a couple of months. Finally, seven B-25 bombers arrived, and he flew one to China in October 1942 with co-pilot Jimmy Routt where he joined the China Air Task Force. This was the 11th Bomber Squadron air echelon, stationed in Kunming, China. He participated in a series of bombing raids in eastern China, Hong Kong, Kweilin docks, and Haiphong under General Chenault and Colonel Bayse. He flew 30 combat bombing missions in China until January 1943 when he was transferred to Karachi to serve as a test pilot, formation training officer, and engineering officer for crews arriving in India under Captain Bramwell. He was there until April 1943 when he was sent to Kurmitola, India by train across India to set up an advance refueling station close to Burma.  \nIn July of 1943, Sparks was sent to Raniket for 2 weeks to rest camp in the Himalayas. Upon his return, he joined the 13th Squadron of the Air Transport Command at Chabua, India to fly C-47s over the Hump from India to China for a month. He was then sent to Agra where he ferried B-25 bombers into China. In October of 1943, he flew transports from Chabua to Kunming. He also flew C-47s around India from Bangalore, Andal to Chabua via Calcutta, India. In February 1944, Sparks was promoted to Captain and ordered to come home. He came home via Khartoum on a C47, Accra Africa on a C87, to Natal Brazil on a C-46 and then to Miami. ","\nArriving back in the US, he went home to see his family, then out to California to see Melba to propose marriage, but then had to quickly return Berry field in Nashville, Tennessee.  In Nashville, TN, he had the job of interviewing incoming pilots from overseas and reporting their qualifications to Cincinnati headquarters of the ferrying division of the Air Transport Command. He quite enjoyed this and did his best to get them stationed in jobs that they wanted.  \nHe married Melba Joyce Gloeckler on May 27, 1944 in Porterville, Calif. No members of his family were present. He had to return immediately to Nashville while she stayed in Los Angeles, and he found a place for them to live. They survived the summer in Nashville by sleeping in the basement of their rental house until he was assigned to Long Beach California in the fall. They drove there by car. They rented an apartment near the ocean and enjoyed swimming and dancing during time off.  \nSparks went on a long trip ferrying a B-24 heavy bomber to Australia a short time after he had been in Long Beach. He was gone almost a month and felt very lonesome. He flew to Hawaii, Canton, New Caledonia, Suara, Indonesia, and Ipswich and Brisbane, Australia. He liked Brisbane but only had three days there. He then flew back in a C-54.  \nSparks was transferred to Stockton, CA in July 1945 (while his wife stayed on Long Beach). He flew C-47s in the Military Transport Division for four months, transporting war wounded to hospitals around the country. He obtained a commercial pilot's license in October 1945. In early 1946, his instrument rating indicated that he had logged over 1000 flying hours. However, in his journal, he indicated that he had over 2000 flying hours.  \nIn late February 1946, Sparks drove out to the airfield in Stockton, California and shot himself through the left nipple with his 45-caliber service pistol. This was around the 5th anniversary of his becoming a pilot. He slumped forward onto the car horn and a passing farmer heard it and put him in the back of a hay wagon and drove him to the hospital. He was transferred to Letterman General Hospital in San Francisco where he remained until June 1946. Sparks received a promotion to Major.  His wife, Melba, then took him to a hospital in Long Beach where he received several electroshock treatments for depression and was finally discharged from the hospital in December 1946.  \nIn September 1946 he had a leave from the hospital and Sparks and Melba travelled about 3000 miles by car to Yellowstone, Yosemite, Grants Park, and Sequoia National Parks over a period of three weeks. He said in his diary that: \"We had decided before I left the hospital, we could not in all fairness hold our marriage together.\" \"We remained the best of friends and I used to send Melba gifts and money whenever she needed it.\"  \nIn December of 1946, Sparks spent Christmas with the Sparks family in Tucson, and Miami. Melba was not with him. He returned to his old room in his parent's home in Tucson. Melba filed for and was granted a divorce on January 23, 1947 in Los Angeles. Sparks received an honorable discharge from the Army Air Corp with the rank of Major in February 1947. ","Sparks moved to Tucson and spent most of 1947 and 1948 taking several college courses. On February 4, 1949, he married Patricia H. Fitz. He originally met her in Tacoma in 1941 and then became reacquainted with her in 1948 when they both were living in Tucson Arizona.  Sparks returned to college full time on the GI Bill and obtained a BA in business administration.  \nThe Sparks had two daughters, Patricia Jo Sparks in 1950 and Terri Lee Sparks in 1955. The Sparks were married for 45 years. Patricia cared for Joe throughout his many years of illness and was the primary wage earner of the family. His two daughters attended college, helped in part by the GI bill. His oldest daughter, Patricia obtained an MD degree in 1975 and practiced medicine as a specialist for 30 years. 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While in Tombstone, Sparks' father worked as a conductor on the El Paso Southwestern railroad. Tombstone had about 4000 people at that time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nSparks started piano lessons in 1923 at age eight. He had lessons until age fifteen. For a short time, he went to school in Phoenix near where his aunt lived. However, he returned to Tucson.  He was invited two summers to a cattle ranch in Northern New Mexico where he had his own horse to ride and helped with the chores. At some point he changed schools and skipped a grade and had a hard time adjusting, missed his friends and did poorly in school. After two years, he graduated and entered Tucson High School in 1929. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nWhile in high school, Sparks played the piano and participated in Boy Scouts. He worked in grocery stores and drug stores. He tried his own business selling Eskimo Pies to service stations and hospitals. He developed an interest in religion and read the Bible. He thought of becoming a minister. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nSparks graduated from Tucson High School on May 26, 1933 at the age of eighteen. He wanted to join the army, but his sister persuaded him to do at least one year of college at University of Arizona, and he was admitted in 1933. He attended off and on for about six years. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nFrom 1933 to 1939, while intermittently going to college, he had various jobs. He tutored the Arizona Boys Chorus from April 1-June 15th, 1933 to make up their school work while they were away on tour. He worked in the Santa Rita Mountains for a government soil erosion center typing reports, was secretary to a lawyer, taught typing at the Deaf and Blind School, worked for the Phantom Ranch in Colorado and the Circle Z Ranch near Patagonia, AZ. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nIn May of 1938, he was appointed a Park Ranger at the North Rim of the Grand Canyon on the recommendation of Senator Carl Hayden who was a friend of his father's. This was a summer job. He hiked the Grand Canyon from rim to rim and took flights over the canyon with a friend. Those flights over the Canyon inspired Sparks' desire to become a pilot. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nSparks joined the Army in September 1939. He received a letter of recommendation from the dean at University of Arizona to the Army Air Corp. The letter indicated that he had somewhat more than 2 years of college work at the University of Arizona with a scholarship record above average that included four semesters of military training. He was initially rejected from the Army Air Corp because he was underweight. In February of 1940, he joined the army as enlisted in Ft. Bliss, Texas.  At the time he entered the US Army in Ft. Bliss Texas as an enlisted man, he was employed as an assistant freight agent by the Southern Pacific Railroad which he found to be a dead-end job. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nAfter a month at Ft. Bliss, Sparks was sent to Fort Ord, CA with the 3rd Infantry division (near Monterey) Another month later, he went to Moffat Field near Mountain View and Sunnyvale. He took leave to visit an Army Air Corp senior officer who recommended him for flying school as he had some college education. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nSparks spent a total of six months as an enlisted man, then nine months as a flying cadet, one year as a 2nd Lieutenant, two years as a First Lieutenant, two years as a Captain and one year as a Major. Sparks had his primary flight training at Cal Aero in Glendale, California for three months, basic flight training at Randolph Field in Texas for 3 months, and then advanced flight training at Brooks Field in Texas for 3 months. He received his wings as a 2nd Lieutenant in February 8, of 1941. He was in the Army Air Corp Reserves at Kelly Field in San Antonio for a while. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nIn February of 1941, Sparks was transferred to McChord Field in Washington and was there until May 1941. He was assigned to the 17th Bombardment Group and then the 12th Bombardment Group under Colonel Goodrich, and the 81st Squadron. When he first came to Tacoma in 1941, he met Patricia Fitz (to become his second wife). Sparks also spent some time in Spokane and Redding California (in December 1941) where he met Melba (who became his first wife). Pearl Harbor was bombed in early December and America entered WWII. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nIn early 1942, Sparks transferred to Esler Field in the middle of Louisiana with the 81st Squadron until May of 1942.  He flew for a month at Wright Paterson in Ohio. In Louisiana, Sparks overshot the runway in a blinding rainstorm while landing. His CO was annoyed and thus made him commanding officer of part of the 11th Bomber Squadron that was sent to Karachi India by boat. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nSparks left Columbia, South Carolina on a boat, the Santa Paula, in May 1942 travelling around the horn of Africa to India. He was the Commanding Officer of the 11th Bomb Squadron ground echelon. He arrived in Karachi India in July 1942. He helped build a camp in an old Indian armored division while they waited for replacement airplanes to arrive for a couple of months. Finally, seven B-25 bombers arrived, and he flew one to China in October 1942 with co-pilot Jimmy Routt where he joined the China Air Task Force. This was the 11th Bomber Squadron air echelon, stationed in Kunming, China. He participated in a series of bombing raids in eastern China, Hong Kong, Kweilin docks, and Haiphong under General Chenault and Colonel Bayse. He flew 30 combat bombing missions in China until January 1943 when he was transferred to Karachi to serve as a test pilot, formation training officer, and engineering officer for crews arriving in India under Captain Bramwell. He was there until April 1943 when he was sent to Kurmitola, India by train across India to set up an advance refueling station close to Burma. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nIn July of 1943, Sparks was sent to Raniket for 2 weeks to rest camp in the Himalayas. Upon his return, he joined the 13th Squadron of the Air Transport Command at Chabua, India to fly C-47s over the Hump from India to China for a month. He was then sent to Agra where he ferried B-25 bombers into China. In October of 1943, he flew transports from Chabua to Kunming. He also flew C-47s around India from Bangalore, Andal to Chabua via Calcutta, India. In February 1944, Sparks was promoted to Captain and ordered to come home. He came home via Khartoum on a C47, Accra Africa on a C87, to Natal Brazil on a C-46 and then to Miami. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nArriving back in the US, he went home to see his family, then out to California to see Melba to propose marriage, but then had to quickly return Berry field in Nashville, Tennessee.  In Nashville, TN, he had the job of interviewing incoming pilots from overseas and reporting their qualifications to Cincinnati headquarters of the ferrying division of the Air Transport Command. He quite enjoyed this and did his best to get them stationed in jobs that they wanted. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nHe married Melba Joyce Gloeckler on May 27, 1944 in Porterville, Calif. No members of his family were present. He had to return immediately to Nashville while she stayed in Los Angeles, and he found a place for them to live. They survived the summer in Nashville by sleeping in the basement of their rental house until he was assigned to Long Beach California in the fall. They drove there by car. They rented an apartment near the ocean and enjoyed swimming and dancing during time off. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nSparks went on a long trip ferrying a B-24 heavy bomber to Australia a short time after he had been in Long Beach. He was gone almost a month and felt very lonesome. He flew to Hawaii, Canton, New Caledonia, Suara, Indonesia, and Ipswich and Brisbane, Australia. He liked Brisbane but only had three days there. 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His family lived in Tombstone, AZ until 1922 when they moved to Tucson, AZ. While in Tombstone, Sparks' father worked as a conductor on the El Paso Southwestern railroad. Tombstone had about 4000 people at that time. \nSparks started piano lessons in 1923 at age eight. He had lessons until age fifteen. For a short time, he went to school in Phoenix near where his aunt lived. However, he returned to Tucson.  He was invited two summers to a cattle ranch in Northern New Mexico where he had his own horse to ride and helped with the chores. At some point he changed schools and skipped a grade and had a hard time adjusting, missed his friends and did poorly in school. After two years, he graduated and entered Tucson High School in 1929.  \nWhile in high school, Sparks played the piano and participated in Boy Scouts. He worked in grocery stores and drug stores. He tried his own business selling Eskimo Pies to service stations and hospitals. He developed an interest in religion and read the Bible. He thought of becoming a minister.  \nSparks graduated from Tucson High School on May 26, 1933 at the age of eighteen. He wanted to join the army, but his sister persuaded him to do at least one year of college at University of Arizona, and he was admitted in 1933. He attended off and on for about six years.  \nFrom 1933 to 1939, while intermittently going to college, he had various jobs. He tutored the Arizona Boys Chorus from April 1-June 15th, 1933 to make up their school work while they were away on tour. He worked in the Santa Rita Mountains for a government soil erosion center typing reports, was secretary to a lawyer, taught typing at the Deaf and Blind School, worked for the Phantom Ranch in Colorado and the Circle Z Ranch near Patagonia, AZ.  \nIn May of 1938, he was appointed a Park Ranger at the North Rim of the Grand Canyon on the recommendation of Senator Carl Hayden who was a friend of his father's. This was a summer job. He hiked the Grand Canyon from rim to rim and took flights over the canyon with a friend. Those flights over the Canyon inspired Sparks' desire to become a pilot.  \nSparks joined the Army in September 1939. He received a letter of recommendation from the dean at University of Arizona to the Army Air Corp. The letter indicated that he had somewhat more than 2 years of college work at the University of Arizona with a scholarship record above average that included four semesters of military training. He was initially rejected from the Army Air Corp because he was underweight. In February of 1940, he joined the army as enlisted in Ft. Bliss, Texas.  At the time he entered the US Army in Ft. Bliss Texas as an enlisted man, he was employed as an assistant freight agent by the Southern Pacific Railroad which he found to be a dead-end job.  \nAfter a month at Ft. Bliss, Sparks was sent to Fort Ord, CA with the 3rd Infantry division (near Monterey) Another month later, he went to Moffat Field near Mountain View and Sunnyvale. He took leave to visit an Army Air Corp senior officer who recommended him for flying school as he had some college education.  \nSparks spent a total of six months as an enlisted man, then nine months as a flying cadet, one year as a 2nd Lieutenant, two years as a First Lieutenant, two years as a Captain and one year as a Major. Sparks had his primary flight training at Cal Aero in Glendale, California for three months, basic flight training at Randolph Field in Texas for 3 months, and then advanced flight training at Brooks Field in Texas for 3 months. He received his wings as a 2nd Lieutenant in February 8, of 1941. He was in the Army Air Corp Reserves at Kelly Field in San Antonio for a while.  \nIn February of 1941, Sparks was transferred to McChord Field in Washington and was there until May 1941. He was assigned to the 17th Bombardment Group and then the 12th Bombardment Group under Colonel Goodrich, and the 81st Squadron. When he first came to Tacoma in 1941, he met Patricia Fitz (to become his second wife). Sparks also spent some time in Spokane and Redding California (in December 1941) where he met Melba (who became his first wife). Pearl Harbor was bombed in early December and America entered WWII.  \nIn early 1942, Sparks transferred to Esler Field in the middle of Louisiana with the 81st Squadron until May of 1942.  He flew for a month at Wright Paterson in Ohio. In Louisiana, Sparks overshot the runway in a blinding rainstorm while landing. His CO was annoyed and thus made him commanding officer of part of the 11th Bomber Squadron that was sent to Karachi India by boat.  \nSparks left Columbia, South Carolina on a boat, the Santa Paula, in May 1942 travelling around the horn of Africa to India. He was the Commanding Officer of the 11th Bomb Squadron ground echelon. He arrived in Karachi India in July 1942. He helped build a camp in an old Indian armored division while they waited for replacement airplanes to arrive for a couple of months. Finally, seven B-25 bombers arrived, and he flew one to China in October 1942 with co-pilot Jimmy Routt where he joined the China Air Task Force. This was the 11th Bomber Squadron air echelon, stationed in Kunming, China. He participated in a series of bombing raids in eastern China, Hong Kong, Kweilin docks, and Haiphong under General Chenault and Colonel Bayse. He flew 30 combat bombing missions in China until January 1943 when he was transferred to Karachi to serve as a test pilot, formation training officer, and engineering officer for crews arriving in India under Captain Bramwell. He was there until April 1943 when he was sent to Kurmitola, India by train across India to set up an advance refueling station close to Burma.  \nIn July of 1943, Sparks was sent to Raniket for 2 weeks to rest camp in the Himalayas. Upon his return, he joined the 13th Squadron of the Air Transport Command at Chabua, India to fly C-47s over the Hump from India to China for a month. He was then sent to Agra where he ferried B-25 bombers into China. In October of 1943, he flew transports from Chabua to Kunming. He also flew C-47s around India from Bangalore, Andal to Chabua via Calcutta, India. In February 1944, Sparks was promoted to Captain and ordered to come home. He came home via Khartoum on a C47, Accra Africa on a C87, to Natal Brazil on a C-46 and then to Miami. ","\nArriving back in the US, he went home to see his family, then out to California to see Melba to propose marriage, but then had to quickly return Berry field in Nashville, Tennessee.  In Nashville, TN, he had the job of interviewing incoming pilots from overseas and reporting their qualifications to Cincinnati headquarters of the ferrying division of the Air Transport Command. He quite enjoyed this and did his best to get them stationed in jobs that they wanted.  \nHe married Melba Joyce Gloeckler on May 27, 1944 in Porterville, Calif. No members of his family were present. He had to return immediately to Nashville while she stayed in Los Angeles, and he found a place for them to live. They survived the summer in Nashville by sleeping in the basement of their rental house until he was assigned to Long Beach California in the fall. They drove there by car. They rented an apartment near the ocean and enjoyed swimming and dancing during time off.  \nSparks went on a long trip ferrying a B-24 heavy bomber to Australia a short time after he had been in Long Beach. He was gone almost a month and felt very lonesome. He flew to Hawaii, Canton, New Caledonia, Suara, Indonesia, and Ipswich and Brisbane, Australia. He liked Brisbane but only had three days there. He then flew back in a C-54.  \nSparks was transferred to Stockton, CA in July 1945 (while his wife stayed on Long Beach). He flew C-47s in the Military Transport Division for four months, transporting war wounded to hospitals around the country. He obtained a commercial pilot's license in October 1945. In early 1946, his instrument rating indicated that he had logged over 1000 flying hours. However, in his journal, he indicated that he had over 2000 flying hours.  \nIn late February 1946, Sparks drove out to the airfield in Stockton, California and shot himself through the left nipple with his 45-caliber service pistol. This was around the 5th anniversary of his becoming a pilot. He slumped forward onto the car horn and a passing farmer heard it and put him in the back of a hay wagon and drove him to the hospital. He was transferred to Letterman General Hospital in San Francisco where he remained until June 1946. Sparks received a promotion to Major.  His wife, Melba, then took him to a hospital in Long Beach where he received several electroshock treatments for depression and was finally discharged from the hospital in December 1946.  \nIn September 1946 he had a leave from the hospital and Sparks and Melba travelled about 3000 miles by car to Yellowstone, Yosemite, Grants Park, and Sequoia National Parks over a period of three weeks. He said in his diary that: \"We had decided before I left the hospital, we could not in all fairness hold our marriage together.\" \"We remained the best of friends and I used to send Melba gifts and money whenever she needed it.\"  \nIn December of 1946, Sparks spent Christmas with the Sparks family in Tucson, and Miami. Melba was not with him. He returned to his old room in his parent's home in Tucson. Melba filed for and was granted a divorce on January 23, 1947 in Los Angeles. Sparks received an honorable discharge from the Army Air Corp with the rank of Major in February 1947. ","Sparks moved to Tucson and spent most of 1947 and 1948 taking several college courses. On February 4, 1949, he married Patricia H. Fitz. He originally met her in Tacoma in 1941 and then became reacquainted with her in 1948 when they both were living in Tucson Arizona.  Sparks returned to college full time on the GI Bill and obtained a BA in business administration.  \nThe Sparks had two daughters, Patricia Jo Sparks in 1950 and Terri Lee Sparks in 1955. The Sparks were married for 45 years. Patricia cared for Joe throughout his many years of illness and was the primary wage earner of the family. His two daughters attended college, helped in part by the GI bill. His oldest daughter, Patricia obtained an MD degree in 1975 and practiced medicine as a specialist for 30 years. Their youngest daughter, Terri, obtained a master's degree in education and worked as a primary school teacher until her retirement.  \nSparks continued to suffer from bipolar disorder, primarily major depression. After 1960, he could not maintain employment and his disability assessment by the Veterans Administration was increase to 100% service-connected disability. Sparks passed away in 1994 at the age of 78 of kidney failure due to lithium toxicity.","Transferred from the Institute on World War II and the Human Experience to FSU Libraries Special Collections \u0026 Archives in July 2022.","This collection relates to Captain Joe Gray Sparks who served as a pilot with the 11 Bomb Squadron in the Pacific Theater during World War II.  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His family lived in Tombstone, AZ until 1922 when they moved to Tucson, AZ. While in Tombstone, Sparks' father worked as a conductor on the El Paso Southwestern railroad. Tombstone had about 4000 people at that time. \nSparks started piano lessons in 1923 at age eight. He had lessons until age fifteen. For a short time, he went to school in Phoenix near where his aunt lived. However, he returned to Tucson.  He was invited two summers to a cattle ranch in Northern New Mexico where he had his own horse to ride and helped with the chores. At some point he changed schools and skipped a grade and had a hard time adjusting, missed his friends and did poorly in school. After two years, he graduated and entered Tucson High School in 1929.  \nWhile in high school, Sparks played the piano and participated in Boy Scouts. He worked in grocery stores and drug stores. He tried his own business selling Eskimo Pies to service stations and hospitals. He developed an interest in religion and read the Bible. He thought of becoming a minister.  \nSparks graduated from Tucson High School on May 26, 1933 at the age of eighteen. He wanted to join the army, but his sister persuaded him to do at least one year of college at University of Arizona, and he was admitted in 1933. He attended off and on for about six years.  \nFrom 1933 to 1939, while intermittently going to college, he had various jobs. He tutored the Arizona Boys Chorus from April 1-June 15th, 1933 to make up their school work while they were away on tour. He worked in the Santa Rita Mountains for a government soil erosion center typing reports, was secretary to a lawyer, taught typing at the Deaf and Blind School, worked for the Phantom Ranch in Colorado and the Circle Z Ranch near Patagonia, AZ.  \nIn May of 1938, he was appointed a Park Ranger at the North Rim of the Grand Canyon on the recommendation of Senator Carl Hayden who was a friend of his father's. This was a summer job. He hiked the Grand Canyon from rim to rim and took flights over the canyon with a friend. Those flights over the Canyon inspired Sparks' desire to become a pilot.  \nSparks joined the Army in September 1939. He received a letter of recommendation from the dean at University of Arizona to the Army Air Corp. The letter indicated that he had somewhat more than 2 years of college work at the University of Arizona with a scholarship record above average that included four semesters of military training. He was initially rejected from the Army Air Corp because he was underweight. In February of 1940, he joined the army as enlisted in Ft. Bliss, Texas.  At the time he entered the US Army in Ft. Bliss Texas as an enlisted man, he was employed as an assistant freight agent by the Southern Pacific Railroad which he found to be a dead-end job.  \nAfter a month at Ft. Bliss, Sparks was sent to Fort Ord, CA with the 3rd Infantry division (near Monterey) Another month later, he went to Moffat Field near Mountain View and Sunnyvale. He took leave to visit an Army Air Corp senior officer who recommended him for flying school as he had some college education.  \nSparks spent a total of six months as an enlisted man, then nine months as a flying cadet, one year as a 2nd Lieutenant, two years as a First Lieutenant, two years as a Captain and one year as a Major. Sparks had his primary flight training at Cal Aero in Glendale, California for three months, basic flight training at Randolph Field in Texas for 3 months, and then advanced flight training at Brooks Field in Texas for 3 months. He received his wings as a 2nd Lieutenant in February 8, of 1941. He was in the Army Air Corp Reserves at Kelly Field in San Antonio for a while.  \nIn February of 1941, Sparks was transferred to McChord Field in Washington and was there until May 1941. He was assigned to the 17th Bombardment Group and then the 12th Bombardment Group under Colonel Goodrich, and the 81st Squadron. When he first came to Tacoma in 1941, he met Patricia Fitz (to become his second wife). Sparks also spent some time in Spokane and Redding California (in December 1941) where he met Melba (who became his first wife). Pearl Harbor was bombed in early December and America entered WWII.  \nIn early 1942, Sparks transferred to Esler Field in the middle of Louisiana with the 81st Squadron until May of 1942.  He flew for a month at Wright Paterson in Ohio. In Louisiana, Sparks overshot the runway in a blinding rainstorm while landing. His CO was annoyed and thus made him commanding officer of part of the 11th Bomber Squadron that was sent to Karachi India by boat.  \nSparks left Columbia, South Carolina on a boat, the Santa Paula, in May 1942 travelling around the horn of Africa to India. He was the Commanding Officer of the 11th Bomb Squadron ground echelon. He arrived in Karachi India in July 1942. He helped build a camp in an old Indian armored division while they waited for replacement airplanes to arrive for a couple of months. Finally, seven B-25 bombers arrived, and he flew one to China in October 1942 with co-pilot Jimmy Routt where he joined the China Air Task Force. This was the 11th Bomber Squadron air echelon, stationed in Kunming, China. He participated in a series of bombing raids in eastern China, Hong Kong, Kweilin docks, and Haiphong under General Chenault and Colonel Bayse. He flew 30 combat bombing missions in China until January 1943 when he was transferred to Karachi to serve as a test pilot, formation training officer, and engineering officer for crews arriving in India under Captain Bramwell. He was there until April 1943 when he was sent to Kurmitola, India by train across India to set up an advance refueling station close to Burma.  \nIn July of 1943, Sparks was sent to Raniket for 2 weeks to rest camp in the Himalayas. Upon his return, he joined the 13th Squadron of the Air Transport Command at Chabua, India to fly C-47s over the Hump from India to China for a month. He was then sent to Agra where he ferried B-25 bombers into China. In October of 1943, he flew transports from Chabua to Kunming. He also flew C-47s around India from Bangalore, Andal to Chabua via Calcutta, India. In February 1944, Sparks was promoted to Captain and ordered to come home. He came home via Khartoum on a C47, Accra Africa on a C87, to Natal Brazil on a C-46 and then to Miami. ","\nArriving back in the US, he went home to see his family, then out to California to see Melba to propose marriage, but then had to quickly return Berry field in Nashville, Tennessee.  In Nashville, TN, he had the job of interviewing incoming pilots from overseas and reporting their qualifications to Cincinnati headquarters of the ferrying division of the Air Transport Command. He quite enjoyed this and did his best to get them stationed in jobs that they wanted.  \nHe married Melba Joyce Gloeckler on May 27, 1944 in Porterville, Calif. No members of his family were present. He had to return immediately to Nashville while she stayed in Los Angeles, and he found a place for them to live. They survived the summer in Nashville by sleeping in the basement of their rental house until he was assigned to Long Beach California in the fall. They drove there by car. They rented an apartment near the ocean and enjoyed swimming and dancing during time off.  \nSparks went on a long trip ferrying a B-24 heavy bomber to Australia a short time after he had been in Long Beach. He was gone almost a month and felt very lonesome. He flew to Hawaii, Canton, New Caledonia, Suara, Indonesia, and Ipswich and Brisbane, Australia. He liked Brisbane but only had three days there. He then flew back in a C-54.  \nSparks was transferred to Stockton, CA in July 1945 (while his wife stayed on Long Beach). He flew C-47s in the Military Transport Division for four months, transporting war wounded to hospitals around the country. He obtained a commercial pilot's license in October 1945. In early 1946, his instrument rating indicated that he had logged over 1000 flying hours. However, in his journal, he indicated that he had over 2000 flying hours.  \nIn late February 1946, Sparks drove out to the airfield in Stockton, California and shot himself through the left nipple with his 45-caliber service pistol. This was around the 5th anniversary of his becoming a pilot. He slumped forward onto the car horn and a passing farmer heard it and put him in the back of a hay wagon and drove him to the hospital. He was transferred to Letterman General Hospital in San Francisco where he remained until June 1946. Sparks received a promotion to Major.  His wife, Melba, then took him to a hospital in Long Beach where he received several electroshock treatments for depression and was finally discharged from the hospital in December 1946.  \nIn September 1946 he had a leave from the hospital and Sparks and Melba travelled about 3000 miles by car to Yellowstone, Yosemite, Grants Park, and Sequoia National Parks over a period of three weeks. He said in his diary that: \"We had decided before I left the hospital, we could not in all fairness hold our marriage together.\" \"We remained the best of friends and I used to send Melba gifts and money whenever she needed it.\"  \nIn December of 1946, Sparks spent Christmas with the Sparks family in Tucson, and Miami. Melba was not with him. He returned to his old room in his parent's home in Tucson. 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Sparks had his primary flight training at Cal Aero in Glendale, California for three months, basic flight training at Randolph Field in Texas for 3 months, and then advanced flight training at Brooks Field in Texas for 3 months. He received his wings as a 2nd Lieutenant in February 8, of 1941. He was in the Army Air Corp Reserves at Kelly Field in San Antonio for a while. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nIn February of 1941, Sparks was transferred to McChord Field in Washington and was there until May 1941. He was assigned to the 17th Bombardment Group and then the 12th Bombardment Group under Colonel Goodrich, and the 81st Squadron. When he first came to Tacoma in 1941, he met Patricia Fitz (to become his second wife). Sparks also spent some time in Spokane and Redding California (in December 1941) where he met Melba (who became his first wife). 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Finally, seven B-25 bombers arrived, and he flew one to China in October 1942 with co-pilot Jimmy Routt where he joined the China Air Task Force. This was the 11th Bomber Squadron air echelon, stationed in Kunming, China. He participated in a series of bombing raids in eastern China, Hong Kong, Kweilin docks, and Haiphong under General Chenault and Colonel Bayse. He flew 30 combat bombing missions in China until January 1943 when he was transferred to Karachi to serve as a test pilot, formation training officer, and engineering officer for crews arriving in India under Captain Bramwell. He was there until April 1943 when he was sent to Kurmitola, India by train across India to set up an advance refueling station close to Burma. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nIn July of 1943, Sparks was sent to Raniket for 2 weeks to rest camp in the Himalayas. Upon his return, he joined the 13th Squadron of the Air Transport Command at Chabua, India to fly C-47s over the Hump from India to China for a month. He was then sent to Agra where he ferried B-25 bombers into China. In October of 1943, he flew transports from Chabua to Kunming. He also flew C-47s around India from Bangalore, Andal to Chabua via Calcutta, India. In February 1944, Sparks was promoted to Captain and ordered to come home. He came home via Khartoum on a C47, Accra Africa on a C87, to Natal Brazil on a C-46 and then to Miami. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nArriving back in the US, he went home to see his family, then out to California to see Melba to propose marriage, but then had to quickly return Berry field in Nashville, Tennessee.  In Nashville, TN, he had the job of interviewing incoming pilots from overseas and reporting their qualifications to Cincinnati headquarters of the ferrying division of the Air Transport Command. He quite enjoyed this and did his best to get them stationed in jobs that they wanted. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nHe married Melba Joyce Gloeckler on May 27, 1944 in Porterville, Calif. No members of his family were present. He had to return immediately to Nashville while she stayed in Los Angeles, and he found a place for them to live. They survived the summer in Nashville by sleeping in the basement of their rental house until he was assigned to Long Beach California in the fall. They drove there by car. They rented an apartment near the ocean and enjoyed swimming and dancing during time off. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nSparks went on a long trip ferrying a B-24 heavy bomber to Australia a short time after he had been in Long Beach. He was gone almost a month and felt very lonesome. He flew to Hawaii, Canton, New Caledonia, Suara, Indonesia, and Ipswich and Brisbane, Australia. He liked Brisbane but only had three days there. 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