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Just as the Navy selected Pensacola, Florida, for the site of naval air training due to good weather conditions, Troop 9 out of Worcester, Massachusetts elected to come south to the USS Yorktown for...
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Lieutenant Gerald Hennesy's aviator notebook containing settings for flight equipment, navigation, instrument use and emergency landing procedures. Contains handwritten notes about Light Signals. A...
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Aviator's Flight Log book from the collection of Lieutenant Gerald Hennesy. Contains flight log records from May 1942 to October 1944. A selection of pages have been scanned to give an insight into a...
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Aviator's Flight Log book from the collection of Lieutenant Gerald Hennesy. Contains flight log records from November 1944 to June 1950. A selection of pages have been scanned to give an insight into...
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Aviator's Flight Log book from the collection of Lieutenant Gerald Hennesy. Contains flight log records from August 1950 to October 1958, with his last flight taken June 2021. A selection of pages...
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A Blood Chit with instruction translations into French, Vietnamese, Thai, Korean, Chinese, Japanese and Laotian.
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Republic of China blood chit from the collection of Gerald Hennesy.
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Today is a very busy one at Patriots Point with over 1000 school and adult visitors scheduled to arrive for educational programs and tours of our ships and aircraft. The weather is sunny and the...
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This envelope once contained personal correspondence between Gerald Hennesy and his mother. It passed inspection from Naval censors and was delivered to Mrs. Francis Hennesy.
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A letter from Gerald Hennesy to his mother dated December 2, 1944. The letter discusses life aboard an escort carrier and Hennesy's experience enduring rough seas.
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In this letter to his mother, Gerald Hennesy discusses the use of the atomic bomb, the end of World War II, and the Navy's attempts to retain sailors now that the Second World War has ended.
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A letter from Gerald Hennesy to his mother dated May 10. The letter recounts everyday life aboard a late war aircraft carrier and mentions the ongoing bombing campaign against the Japanese home...
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Photograph of Gerald Hennesy at an award ceremony that was held aboard the USS Yorktown (CV-10) following the end of World War II.
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Photograph of Gerald Hennesy in his US Navy dress uniform.
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Letter from Gerald Hennesy to his mother, Frances Hennesy postmarked April 19, 1945. Letter details his life on the ship and a poem. Three page letter and envelope.
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Letter from Lt. Gerald Hennesy to his mother, Frances Hennesy dated May 12, 1945. Letter describes food service on the on the transport ship USS Makassar Strait to the Pacific where Air Group 88 was...
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Letter from Lt. Gerald Hennesy to his mother, Frances Hennesy, dated June 8, 1945. Letter details his flight departures at 3:30am, his making lieutenant rank, and listening to Japanese broadcasts...
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Letter from Lt. Gerald Hennesy to his mother, Frances Hennesy, dated July 25, 1945. Letter details receiving a care package from home, waiting in the ready room to fly, and life on the ship.
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The VA-72 "Blue Hawks" entered the break today at 800 feet and 250 knots...all received an OK-3 as they arrived onboard YORKTOWN. I had the privilege and pleasure of leading their reunion around the...
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Letter from Lt. Gerald Hennesy to his mother, Frances Hennesy, dated June 22, 1945. Letter details shore leave, and some fellow aviators on board with him.