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Thomas C. Cartwright papers, 1945-2014, Date acquired: 05/20/2014, bulk 1995-2004

 

Summary

Creator:
Cartwright, T. C. (Thomas Campbell)
Extent:
1.00 boxes
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Title of Item], [Date of Item], [Box and Folder number], Thomas C. Cartwright papers, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. http://purl.fcla.edu/fsu/WWII_14_0043.

Background

Scope and content:

Thomas C. Cartwright served as the pilot of the B-24 bomber, Lonesome Lady, in the 494th Bombardment Group, 7th Air Force. His plane was shot down over Japan at the end of July 1945. Cartwright and one other member of the bomber crew were transported elsewhere, while the majority of the crew was interred in prison in Hiroshima, Japan. All those crewmen were killed when the US dropped the atomic bomb on that city.


Biographical / historical:

Thomas C. Cartwright was born in York, South Carolina on March 8, 1924. Cartwright was the pilot of the Lonesome Lady, a B-24 bomber, in the 494th Bombardment Group, 7th Air Group. He was shot down over Japan in July 1945. After the war, he served a professor of genetics at Texas A and M University until his retirement in 1994. Cartwright authored 100 technical articles and a book on an ecological approach to livestock production. In his later life, he also published a work on his wartime experiences titled A Date with the Lonesome Lady: A Hiroshima POW Returns. He passed away on January 11, 2015, in Pack Creek Ranch near Moab, Utah.


Acquisition information:

Thomas C. Cartwright

Donation

Custodial history:

Transferred from the Institute on World War II and the Human Experience to FSU Libraries Special Collections & Archives in July 2022.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

This collection is open to all researchers.

Terms of access:

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 & Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Florida State University Libraries as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.

Preferred citation:

[Title of Item], [Date of Item], [Box and Folder number], Thomas C. Cartwright papers, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. http://purl.fcla.edu/fsu/WWII_14_0043.

Location of this collection:
116 Honors Way
Tallahassee
FL
32306-2047
USA