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This collection consists of Major Russell Cooke's wartime correspondence to Olive Lafluer Cooke.
This collection is in English.
Russell Cooke (1916 - 2016) was a major in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II. Trained at Midland, TX and Maxwell Field, AL, Cooke served in the Pacific with the 5th Bomb Group (including with the 70th and 31st squadrons.) and flew Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses and Consolidated B-24s. After the war, Cooke was employed by PPG Industries.
NASM.2021.0021
Cooke, Russell
1937-1945
Doreen Cooke-Moran, Gift, 2021, NASM.2021.0021
1.5 Cubic feet (Four Letter Document Boxes)
National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of over 290 letters, from 1941 to 1945, from Major Russell Cooke to his girlfriend, Olive Lafluer, who became his wife in 1942.
This collection is arranged by letter date order.
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Russell Cooke World War II Correspondence, NASM.2021.0021, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
Aeronautics
World War, 1939-1945
Letters (correspondence) -- 20th century
Collection descriptions
Archival materials