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Charles F. Myers Sr. collection, 1941-1951, Date acquired: 06/28/2016

 

Summary

Creator:
Myers, Charles F., Sr., 1918-1973
Extent:
.5 Linear Feet
1 items
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Title of Item], [Date of Item], [Box and Folder number], Charles F. Myers, Sr. collection, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/02-16-2016

Background

Scope and content:

This collection relates to Charles F. Myers Sr. who served as a pilot with the Army Air Corps in the U.S., Panama, and Europe during World War II. The collection includes personal, medical, and financial records, appreciation letters, shipping tickets, a photograph of the 41-D graduating class of Gunter Field in Montgomery, Alabama, special orders and assignments, an original personnel file, an original flight records file, modern records and information, and a briefcase used for dead reckoning navigational records and equipment.

Biographical / historical:

Charles F. Myers, Sr. was born in Rockledge, Florida in May 28, 1918. He graduated with a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Tech in 1940. He was commissioned into the Navy, but in October of 1940, was appointed to the Army Air Corps, completing his training at Gunter Field in Montgomery, Alabama. He was a pilot instructor in Tucson, Arizona and Springfield, Massachusetts, and flew submarine-spotting missions around the Panama Canal before being shipped to Europe in 1945, flying missions over Italy, Germany, and Austria. He passed away on May 30, 1973 and is buried along side his wife Ruth in Saint Lukes Parish Episcopal Church Cemetery, Merritt Island, FL

Acquisition information:
This collection was donated by Charlie F. Myers Jr. The collection was acquired by the Institute on World War II and the Human Experience on June 28, 2016.
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], Charles F. Myers, Sr. collection, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/02-16-2016

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