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Oversized boxes are numbered consecutively by size of box. Within each box, materials are identified by the subseries and folder title to which they are related. Items marked as [loose] are too large to be placed in a folder and are therefore placed in the box without enclosure. | ||
| Box | Folder | |
| 158 | 1 | Diplomas - The Infantry School (U.S. Army) - June 16, 1938 | II.C.11. Directorate of Operations, Headquarters, USAF | 2 | Newsclippings |
II.C.20. US Strike Command | 3 | Awards and Honors - 1969 - September 22 - Knight Grand Cross (First Class) of the Most Noble Order of the Crown of Thailand |
4 | Official Duties - Visit to - MEAFSA (September 1968) |
III.A.1. Cleveland, Director of Public Safety | 5 | Resignation |
III.A.3. US DOT, Assistant Secretary of Transportation | 6 | Newsclippings - 1972 |
7 | Resignation |
III.B.2. Private Life - Awards and Honors | 8 | 1978 - November 4 - Order of the Sword |
9 | Keys to Cities/Honorary Citizenships |
III.B.11. Private Life - Commemoratives/Memorials | 10 | Portraits - Diefenbach (Bob A. Diefenbach, 1992) |
III.B.13. Department of Defense | 11 | Commissary Reform |
III.B.14. Private Life - Exhibits | 12 | Harris Bank - Tuskegee Airmen (poster) |
III.B.17. Private Life - Politics | 13 | 1984 Election - Mondale - Democratic Party of Virginia Convention |
III.B.18. Private Life - Public Appearances | Appearances by Date |
14 | 1992 - March 18 - Barrett Elementary School (Arlington, VA) |
15 | 1993 - January 21 - Gen. Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. Middle School (Compton, CA) |
| 159 | 18x22x3 Box | II.C.18. United Nations Command/US Forces Korea | [loose] | Change of Assignment (presentation album: United Nations Command - Eighth United States Army) |
| 160 | 18x22x3 Box | II.C.19. Thirteenth Air Force | [loose] | Change of Assignment (presentation scrapbook: Memoir - Lieutenant General Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. - Commander, Thirteenth Air Force - Clark Air Base, Republic of the Philippines - August 1967-July 1968) |
| 161 | 16x20x1 Box | II.C.8. Godman Field | [loose] | Interviews - Information Please (January 14, 1946) - recording by WAVE (Louisville, KY) (acetate audio discs; disc 2 broken) |
II.C.9. Lockbourne AFB | [loose] | Interviews - Skylanders (June 10, 1948; WRFD) (acetate audio discs) |
| 162 | 20x24x3 Box | II.A. General Military Records | 1 | Diplomas - United States Military Academy (June 12, 1936) |
II.C.9. Lockbourne AFB | 2 | Official Duties - Personnel - Farewell from Lockbourne AFB Civilian Employees |
II.C.18. United Nations Command/US Forces Korea | 3 | Official Duties - Photos - Miscellaneous |
II.C.20. US Strike Command | 4 | Miscellaneous |
III.A.3. US DOT, Assistant Secretary of Transportation | 5 | Appointment to Position |
6 | Resignation |
III.B.2. Private Life - Awards and Honors | 7 | 1992 - February 20 - Langley Medal |
III.B.5. Private Life - Boards and Commissions | 8 | National Defense University Foundation |
III.B.9. Private Life - Clubs and Organizations | Tuskegee Airmen |
Commemoratives and Memorials |
9 | 52d Anniversary (Howard University; October 21, 1993) |
10 | Artwork |
11 | Le Grone |
III.B.11. Private Life - Commemoratives/Memorials | 12 | Portraits |
III.B.12. Private Life - Correspondence | 13 | Correspondence by Date - July-December 1977 |
III.B.18. Private Life - Public Appearances | Appearances by Date |
1992 |
14 | February 16 - Pittsburgh (PA) Federal Executive Board |
15 | February 29-March 1 - Eglin AFB, FL |
16 | 1992 Miscellaneous |
1993 |
17 | May 7-8 - Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute, Patrick AFB, FL |
| 163 | 20x24x3 Box | II.C.6. 99th Fighter Squadron | 1-2 | Newsclippings (2 folders) |
II.C.8. Godman Field | 3 | Newsclippings |
II.C.9. Lockbourne AFB | 4 | Newsclippings |
5 | Travel - 1949 - Virgin Islands |
II.C.11. Directorate of Operations, Headquarters, USAF | 6 | Social - Liberian Independence (Embassy Parties) |
7 | Travel - 1952 May-Jun - South America - Documents |
II.C.12. 51st Fighter Interceptor Wing | 8 | General |
9 | Agatha (Los Angeles) |
10 | Newsclippings - Checker-Tail (wing newspaper) |
II.C.13. Headquarters, FEAF | 11 | Official Duties - Personnel - Integration |
12 | Promotion to Brigadier General (October 27, 1954) - Newsclippings |
13 | Social - 1955 May 23 - Naomi Home Benefit |
II.C.14. Air Task Force 13 (Provisional) | Newsclippings |
14 | 1955 |
15 | 1956 |
16 | 1957 |
Newsclippings - Ramjet (Ramstein AB Newspaper) | II.C.16. Headquarters, USAF Europe | Newsclippings |
18 | 1958 |
19 | 1960 |
II.C.17. Programs and Requirements, Headquarters, USAF | 20 | Newsclippings |
21 | Official Duties - Personnel - Reserve Officers Training Corps - Colby College |
II.C.18. United Nations Command/US Forces Korea | 22 | Newsclippings |
II.C.19. Thirteenth Air Force | Newsclippings |
23 | 1967 |
24 | 1968 |
II.C.20. US Strike Command | 25 | Civil Rights |
Newsclippings |
26 | 1968 |
27 | 1969 |
| 164 | 20x24x3 Box | 1 | Official Duties - Arrival (August 1, 1968) |
2 | Maneuvers - BRASS STRIKE III |
Visit to |
3 | MEAFSA (September 1968) |
4 | Asmara, Eritrea (September 1968) |
5 | MEAFSA (June 10-27, 1969) |
6 | Abidjan, Ivory Coast (June 13-15, 1969) |
II.C.21. Military Retirement | 7 | Newsclippings |
III.A.1. Cleveland, Director of Public Safety | 8-12 | Newsclippings (5 folders) |
Resignation - Public Response - Letters |
13 | D-E-F |
14 | Anonymous |
III.A.2. US DOT - Director of Civil Aviation Security | 15 | Correspondence - September-December 1970 |
16 | Newsclippings |
III.A.3. US DOT, Assistant Secretary of Transportation | Newsclippings |
17 | 1971 |
18 | 1972 |
19 | 1973 |
20 | 1975 |
| 165 | 20x24x3 Box | III.A.4. US DOT - Special Assistant | 1 | Correspondence - 1977-1981 |
Newsclippings |
2 | 1976 |
3 | 1977 |
4 | 1979 |
III.B.2. Private Life - Awards and Honors | 5 | 1992 - September 26 - Lifetime Achievement Award (Congressional Black Caucus Foundation) |
III.B.5. Private Life - Boards and Commissions | President's Commission on Campus Unrest |
6 | Kent State |
7 | Newsclippings (Loose) |
8 | President's Commission on Military Compensation - Newsclippings - 1978 |
III.B.9. Private Life - Clubs and Organizations | Tuskegee Airmen |
9 | Commemorations and Memorials - Artwork - "Black Americans in Flight" |
10 | History - Proctor Material - material sent by Bernard S. Proctor, May 24, 1993 |
11 | Newsclippings |
III.B.11. Private Life - Commemoratives/Memorials | 12 | International Forest of Friendship |
III.B.12. Private Life - Correspondence | 13 | January-June 1980 |
14 | March 1992 |
III.B.13. Private Life - Department of Defense | Personnel Issues |
15 | Service Academy Honor Codes |
United States Military Academy |
16 | Pelosi Case |
III.B.16. Private Life - Newsclippings | 17 | 1972-1973 |
18 | 1977 |
19 | 1978 |
20 | 1979 |
21 | 1980 |
22 | 1982 |
23 | 1983 |
24 | 1984 |
25 | 1987 |
26 | 1988 |
27 | 1989 |
28 | 1990 |
29 | 1991 |
30 | 1992 |
| 166 | 20x24x3 Box | 1 | 1993 |
III.B.17. Private Life - Politics | 2 | Lake County [OH] Republican Organization |
White House |
3 | Nixon Administration - Memoranda |
4 | Ford Administration |
5 | 1980 Election - Reagan, Ronald W. |
6 | 1984 Election - Mondale, Walter F. - Democratic Party of Virginia Convention |
III.B.18. Private Life - Public Appearances | 1987 |
7 | May 21 - National Air and Space Museum - Lindbergh Lecture |
8 | September 18-20 - Festival of Flight (Wright-Patterson AFB, OH) - Newsclippings |
9 | 1991 - July 27-28 - Budweiser Air and Water Show (Chicago, IL) |
10 | 1992 - February 4 - Westinghouse Electronic Systems Group (Baltimore, MD) |
1993 |
11 | January 21 - General Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. Middle School (Compton, CA) - Black History Month |
12 | February 7 - Atlanta History Center (Atlanta, GA) - Livingston Lecture |
III.B.19. Private Life - Travel | 13 | Taiwan |
IV.B.2. Autobiography - Newsclippings and Tear Sheets | 14 | Undated & January 1991 |
15 | February 1991 |
16 | March 1991 and subsequent |
17 | Reviews of Book to August 1991 |
| 167 | 20x24x3 Box | I. Education and Civilian Life | 1 | Central High School, Cleveland, OH |
II.C.8. Godman Field | 2 | Godman Field (general) |
II.C.10. Air War College | 3 | Air War College (general) |
II.C.14. Air Task Force 13 (Provisional) | 4 | Awards and Honors - 1957 - April 2 - Cloud and Banner (Medal) |
II.C.16. Headquarters, USAF Europe | 5 | Miscellaneous |
II.C.18. United Nations Command/US Forces Korea | 6 | Awards (general) |
7 | Personal - Golf |
III.B.1. Private Life (General) | 8 | Death of Benjamin O. Davis, Sr - Condolence Letters |
III.B.5. Private Life - Boards and Commissions | 9 | American Battle Monument Commission |
10 | President's Commission on Campus Unrest |
11 | United States Air Force Academy (Board of Visitors) |
III.B.9. Private Life - Clubs and Organizations | 12 | Tuskegee Airmen |
III.B.11. Private Life - Commemoratives/Memorials | 13 | Calendars |
III.B.20. Private Life - Miscellaneous | 14 | Miscellaneous Posters |
IV.B.3. Autobiography - Public Appearances | 15 | Publicity |
| 168 | 8x25x8 Box | II.C.9. Lockbourne AFB | [loose] | Photos (large rolled panoramic photograph; see NASM 9A00800) |
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Other Oversize Locations: Flat Files | ||
| 24x36 | II.C.9. Lockbourne AFB | 1 | Official Duties - Visit to Liberia |
III.B.11. Private Life - Commemoratives/Memorials | 2 | Portraits |
III.B.18. Private Life - Public Appearances | 3 | 1986 - May 31 - Gathering of Eagles V |
4 | 1990 - March - United States Military Academy - Black History Month |
5 | 1992 - June 10 - Gathering of Eagles IX |
| 36x48 | III.B.18. Private Life - Public Appearances | 1 | 1992 Miscellaneous |
| 131 | 10x13x3 Box | II.B. Scrapbooks and Photo Albums | [loose] | Photo Album (1936-1938) |
[loose] | Photo Album (1938-1941) |
| 132 | 11x13x3 Box | II.C.21. Military Retirement | [loose] | Presentation Album (Newsclippings) |
| 133 | 11x13x3 Box | II.C.21. Military Retirement | [loose] | Presentation Album (Photos) |
| 134 | 12x15x3 Box | II.A. General Military Records | 1 | Commissions |
Cadet, USMA - July 1, 1932 |
Second Lieutenant (Infantry) - June 12, 1936 (to rank from June 12, 1936) |
First Lieutenant (Infantry) - June 12, 1939 (to rank from June 12, 1939) |
First Lieutenant (Air Corps) - May 28, 1942 (to rank from June 12, 1939) |
Captain (Army, temporary) - October 1, 1940 (to rank from September 9, 1940) |
Major (Air Corps, temporary) - May 13, 1942 (to rank from March 1, 1942; notice of temporary appointment) |
Lieutenant Colonel (Air Corps, temporary) - May 23, 1942 (to rank from March 1, 1942; notice of temporary appointment) |
Captain (Air Corps) - June 12, 1946 (to rank from June 12, 1946) |
Lieutenant Colonel (USAF) - January 27, 1949 (to rank from July 1, 1948) |
Colonel (USAF) - July 27, 1950 (to rank from July 27, 1950) |
Brigadier General (USAF) - October 27, 1954 (to rank from October 12, 1954) |
Major General (USAF) - June 30, 1959 (to rank from October 8, 1954) |
Brigadier General (USAF, Regular) - May 16, 1960 (to rank from March 8, 1958) |
Major General (USAF, Regular) - January 30, 1962 (to rank from September 13, 1955) |
Lieutenant General (USAF) - April 30, 1965 (to rank from April 30, 1965) |
Citations |
2 | Distinguished Service Medal (March 26, 1957) |
3 | Legion of Merit (First Oak Leaf Cluster; June 30, 1961) |
4 | Legion of Merit (Second Oak Leaf Cluster; April 19, 1965) |
5 | Distinguished Service Medal (July 31, 1967) |
6 | Air Medal (Fifth Oak Leaf Cluster; July 25, 1968) |
7 | Distinguished Service Medal (First Oak Leaf Cluster; January 31, 1970) [presentation folder disposed of due to vinyl deterioration] |
8 | Certificate of Retirement (February 1, 1970) |
| 135 | 12x15x3 Box | II.B. Scrapbooks and Photo Albums | [loose] | Scrapbook No. 1 (through 1936) |
| 136 | 12x15x3 Box | II.B. Scrapbooks and Photo Albums | [loose] | Scrapbook No. 2 (1937-1940) |
| 137 | 12x15x3 Box | II.B. Scrapbooks and Photo Albums | [loose] | Scrapbook No. 3 (1941-1942) |
| 138 | 12x15x3 Box | II.B. Scrapbooks and Photo Albums | [loose] | Scrapbook No. 4 (1943) |
| 139 | 12x15x3 Box | II.B. Scrapbooks and Photo Albums | [loose] | Scrapbook No. 5 (1944) |
| 140 | 12x15x3 Box | II.B. Scrapbooks and Photo Albums | [loose] | Scrapbook No. 6 (1945) |
| 141 | 12x15x3 Box | II.B. Scrapbooks and Photo Albums | [loose] | Scrapbook No. 7 (1946) |
| 142 | 12x15x3 Box | II.B. Scrapbooks and Photo Albums | [loose] | Scrapbook No. 8 (1947) |
1 | Loose scrapbook pages No. 1 (1942-1945) |
2 | Loose scrapbook pages No. 2 (1943-1946) |
3 | Loose scrapbook pages No. 3 (1943-1947) |
4 | Loose scrapbook pages No. 4 (1945) |
| 143 | 12x15x3 Box | II.B. Scrapbooks and Photo Albums | [loose] | Photo Album (1942-1943) |
[loose] | Photo Album (1943) |
[loose] | Photo Album (1945) |
| 144 | 12x15x3 Box | II.C.9. Lockbourne AFB | 1 | Official Duties - Photos |
II.C.13. Headquarters, FEAF | 2 | Personal - Photos ("Green" Album) |
| 145 | 12x15x3 Box | II.C.14. Air Task Force 13 (Provisional) | [loose] | Change of Assignment and Departure from Taiwan - Correspondence |
1 | Official Duties - Ceremonies and Presentation - "Double Ten Day" (October 10, 1956; "The Gallant Air Force Pictorial") |
[loose] | Personal - Photos (Blue Album (birthday party)) |
2 | Miscellaneous - Portrait of Davis (by Armin, 1957) |
II.C.15. Twelfth Air Force | 3 | Newsclippings - Müncher Illustrierte |
Miscellaneous - Aerial Photos |
4 | France |
5 | Germany |
6 | Italy |
7 | Miscellaneous Europe |
II.C.16. Headquarters, USAF Europe | 8 | Newsclippings |
9 | Official Duties - Photos |
10 | Portraits |
| 146 | 12x15x3 Box | II.C.18. United Nations Command/US Forces Korea | 1 | Newsclippings |
[loose] | Official Duties - Visit to - ROK 1st Marine Division (September 1965; album) |
II.C.19. Thirteenth Air Force | 2 | Newsclippings |
Official Duties - Visit to - Indonesia and Australia (June 1968) |
3 | Photos (Benjamin) |
4 | Photos (Agatha) |
5 | Miscellaneous |
| 147 | 12x15x3 Box | II.C.20. US Strike Command | 1 | Awards and Honors - Miscellaneous |
2 | Newsclippings |
[loose] | Official Duties - Visit to - MEAFSA - Uganda (September 1968; Photo Album) |
III.A.1. Cleveland, Director of Public Safety | 3 | Awards and Honors |
4 | Ceremonies and Presentations - Clevelander Handicap (July 11, 1970) |
III.A.3. US DOT, Assistant Secretary of Transportation | 5 | Awards and Honors |
6 | Photos - Autographed |
| 148 | 12x15x3 Box | III.A.4. US Dept. of Transportation, Special Assistant | [loose] | National Maximum Speed Limit (Resource Notebook, c.1979/1980) |
| 149 | 12x15x3 Box | III.B.1. Private Life (General) | 1 | Photos |
III.B.2. Private Life - Awards and Honors | 2 | 1973 - May 24 - Citation and Testimonial (Massachusetts Committee of Catholics, Protestants and Jews; Boston, MA) |
3 | 1978 - October 6 - Falcon Foundation Tribute |
4 | Honorary Degrees - Daemon College (Amherst, NY; May 9, 1992) |
5 | Miscellaneous Awards from Clubs and Organizations |
III.B.3. Private Life - Awards and Honors (Benjamin O. Davis, Sr.) | 6 | Miscellaneous |
III.B.5. Private Life - Boards and Commissions | 7 | American Battle Monuments Commission |
President's Commission on Campus Unrest |
8 | Kent State |
9 | Photos |
III.B.9. Private Life - Clubs and Organizations | 10 | 369th Veterans' Association (Reception Album; June 14, 1975) |
11 | Tuskegee Airmen - Commemoratives and Memorials - Artwork |
| 150 | 12x15x1 Box | III.B.11. Private Life - Commemoratives/Memorials | 1 | Portraits - Mitchell (Briar Lee Mitchell, 1993) |
2 | Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. Aerospace Technical High School |
III.B.12. Private Life - Correspondence | 3 | Correspondence by Date - January-September 1991 |
III.B.18. Private Life - Public Appearances | Appearances by Date |
4 | 1991 - November 13 - Martin Luther King Memorial Library (Washington, DC) |
5 | 1992 - January 30 - NARA National Audiovisual Center |
6 | 1992 Miscellaneous |
7 | 1993 - January 20 - Monrovia High School (Monrovia, CA) |
III.B.20. Private Life - Miscellaneous | 8 | Miscellaneous |
IV.B.3. Autobiography - Public Appearances | 9 | Publicity |
| 151 | 15x19x3 Box | II.B. Scrapbooks and Photo Albums | [loose] | Scrapbook No. 9 (1948) |
[loose] | Scrapbook No. 10 (1949) |
| 152 | 15x19x3 Box | II.C.7. 332d Fighter Group | [loose] | Bond Rally, National Smelting Co, Cleveland, OH (October 10, 1943; phonograph records) |
| 153 | 15x19x3 Box | II.C.8. Godman Field | [loose] | Interviews - Information Please (January 14, 1946) (phonograph records) |
| 154 | 15x19x1 Box | II.C.9. Lockbourne AFB | 1 | Newsclippings |
2 | Official Duties - Base Nursery |
II.C.13. Headquarters, FEAF | 3 | Social - Invitations Scrapbook |
| 155 | 15x19x3 Box | II.C.14. Air Task Force 13 (Provisional) | [loose] | Social - Invitations Received (scrapbook) |
| 156 | 15x19x3 Box | II.C.18. United Nations Command/US Forces Korea | [loose] | Official Duties - Photos - ROK Tiger Division, Vietnam (2 albums) |
| 157 | 15x19x3 Box | III.B.18. Private Life - Public Appearances | [loose] | Appearances by Date - 1972 - July 14 - Empire States Military Academy (Presentation Album) |
IV.B.2. Autobiography - Newsclippings and Tear Sheets | 1 | Newsclippings |
| 158 | 15x22x2 Box | II.A. General Military Records |