Judge Leon Ford III
Archival Collection: Air Force
JUDGE LEON FORD III COLLECTION-AIR FORCE
Box 1
FOLDER
1. Alexandria England Air Force Base (63 items)
2. Alexandria-Esler-Pollock (33 items)
3. England Air Force Base (15 items)
4. Barksdale (31 items)
5. Biloxi-United States Coast Guard (14 items)
6. Gerstner Field (31 items)
7. Greenwood AAF (2 items)
8. Jackson-Laurel-Granada-Hattiesburg (37 items)
JUDGE LEON FORD III COLLECTION-AIR FORCE
Box 2
FOLDER
1. Foxie Kent (44 items)
2. Keesler Field (80 items)
3. Key field (41 items)
4. Lake Charles Army Air Field (24 items)
5. Louisiana Army Auxiliary Fields (30 items)
6. New Orleans Air Base (22 items)
7. Osyka (23 items)
8. Selman field (30 items)
9. Texas Air Bases (6 items)
10. 56th Fire Group (18 items)
11. Clark Air Force Base (14 items)
JUDGE LEON FORD III COLLECTION-AIR FORCE
Box 3
FOLDER
1. Airport Data-Copies from Paul Fornet (154 items)
2. Florida Air Bases (166 items)
3. Eglin Air Force Base (21 items)
4. Tyndall Air Force Base (1 item)
5. Burton Army Air Force Association (105 items)
6. Selman Field (10 items)
JUDGE LEON FORD III COLLECTION-AIR FORCE
Box 4
FOLDER
1. Louisiana Maneuvers (28 items)
2. Mississippi Archives (10 items)
3. Mississippi Bases-Miscellaneous (44 items)
4. Paul Fournet (15 items)
5. United States Army Air Force Airport Directory (51 items)
6. Alabama Air Bases-Miscellaneous (6 items)
7. Air Bases - Miscellaneous (28 items)
8. United Daughters of the Confederacy Memorial Day Service & Louisiana Air Bases (13 items)
9. F-15 & F-4 Louisiana Air National Guard (26 items)
10. Mississippi Air Service (8 items)
11. Camp Livingston (32 items)
12. United States Naval Air Corps (21 items)
13. Air Force Association (26 items)
14. Air & Space - Smithsonian, Aviation Week, & Space Technology (76 items)
15. Camp Villere, USAF Museum Calendar 1992, Aviation Week & Space Technology, Burtonwood Times
(18 items)
16. American Aviation Historical Society (27 items)
17. Air Force Squadrons (36 items)
JUDGE LEON FORD III COLLECTION-AIR FORCE
Box 5
FOLDER
1. Air Force Research - (27 items)
2. Maxwell - (30 items)
3. Base Photo Captions - (18 items)
4. Fighter and Bomber Group Histories - 17 items
5. Air Field Research and Material - 28 items
6. Maxwell Air Force Base - 41 items
7. United States Air Force Research - 28 items
8. Air Force Research Washington D.C. - 51 items
9. Peanuts Comic Strips and Clipping about 40th Anniversary of England Air Force Base - 3 items
10. Luke Field Class 43-H Photo Album and Patch - 2 items
11. US Army Air force Instrument Approach and Landing Charts - 2 items
12. Advertisement for Western Stories by Zane Grey and Dust Jacket from War in the Air: Fighting Planes and Pilots in Action - 2 items
13. Trajectory, November 1943 and January 1944 - 2 items
14. Life of the Airman in the Tactical Air Command - 1 item
15. Flight Information Publication Terminal (High Altitude) for the Southeast United States 1 October 1963 - 1 item
JUDGE LEON FORD III COLLECTION-AIR FORCE
Box 6
FOLDER
1. Vietnamese Air Force, 1951-1975, USAF SE Asia Monograph Series, Vol. 3 Mon 4 and 5, 10 Sept 1975 - 1 item
2. Aeronautics Aircraft Spotters Guide Numbers 2-4 - 3 items
3. United States Air Force Museum Book and Brochure, National Museum of Naval Aviation Brochure - 3 items
4. Air Trails May 1952 Vol. 38 No. 2 - 1 item
5. Skyways December 1949 Vol. 8 No. 12 - 1 item
6. The Daily Reveille, B.R. vol. 56, No. 13 - 1 item
7. The Airman, Official Journal of the Air Force, August 1964 - 1 item
8. Air Force Magazine October 1985 page 16 - 2 items
9. International Masters Publishers AB Aircraft of the World, - 11 items
10. Air Force Magazine Articles, - 38 items
11. Aviation Clippings - General, - 8 items
12. Local Aviation Clippings -1993 - 2 items
13. maps - 6 items
14. Sectional Aeronautical Charts - 5 items
15. Paul R. Reeves Research, Reunion Chairman of the 55th Fighter Group - 53 items
16. Louisiana Maneuvers AAF Clippings - 16 items
17. Shushan Airport, 6 items
JUDGE LEON FORD III COLLECTION-AIR FORCE
Box 7
FOLDER
1. Shushan Airport, 19 items
2. Colonel Walter Wesley Ott Research, Correspondence, and Articles - 54 items
3. Times Picayune articles: "Primary Group Graduated" dated 1-9-1944, "Wedell to make dash for Record Thanksgiving" dated 11-24-1931, "Huge Airship Akron Speeds to Pay city - 3 items
4. HAAF General Plan X2, Evaluation of HAAF, 8 xerox copeis of HAAF General plan, Building list, HAAF Air support command base X2, Tang Parish Airport X2, artist drawing of Tang Airport - 17 items
5. Hammond Army Air Field - 34 items
6. Pilot’s Flight Log: Carroll Saunders Thomas - 1 item
7. "19 Perish in Plane Crash Near Marshall" from the Shreveport Times, May 18, 1953 - 1 item
8. Sporty’s Pilot Shop- Division of Sportsman’s Market, Inc. - 1 item
9. Aeronautical Charts- Beaumont, Birmingham, Dallas, NOLA, Shreveport, Louisiana - 13 items
10. Aeronautical Charts - 8 items
11. Aeronautical Charts - 25 items
12. Air Refueling and Tac Recon Group Magazines - 6 items
13. Fort Bragg Airforce and American Airpower Magazine, 2 items
14. Hammond Army Airfield, 1 item
JUDGE LEON FORD III COLLECTION-AIR FORCE
Box 8
FOLDER
1. Wedell- Williams Transport Corporation- Aviation History, 62 items
2. Wedell- Williams Memorial Foundation, 2 items
3. Louisiana Air Base Charts, 44 items
4. Louisiana Air Services- Miscellaneous, 34 items
5. 122nd Observation Squadron- LA Air National Guard , 104 items
6. 122nd Observation Squadron ( Photos- Bill Martens)- LA Air National Guard, 59 items
7. Norman L. Sisson 401st Bm. GP- 614th Bm. SQ, 5 items
8. John A. Perrone- 82nd Fighter Group, 25 items
9. Roster of Officers- 3380th Tech. Training Wing- Keesler AFB 1955 - 1 item (45 pgs)
JUDGE LEON FORD III COLLECTION-AIR FORCE
Box 9
FOLDER
1. 496th and 498th FTR BMR SQS- 84th FTR BMR SQS, 72 items
2. Burtonwood- Articles, Pictures, Correspondence, 28 items
3. New Orleans Naval Air Station, 10 items
4. DeRidder Air Force Base, 7 items
5. Harding Field ( 1), 119 items
6. Harding Field ( 2 ), 7 items
7. Harding Field ( 3 ), 71 items
8. Harding Field ( 4 )- Billy Spedale ,59 items
9. Harding Field Memorial Foundation, 10 items
JUDGE LEON FORD III COLLECTION-AIR FORCE
Box 10
FOLDER
1. Maxwell Air Force Base, 30 items
2. Wright- Patterson Air Force Base 10-22-1991, 27 items
3. Gulfport Army Airfield, 16 items
4. Perry Army Air Field, 4 items
5. Tinker Field, Oklahoma- "The Beginning, 1940-1949" - 21 items
6. P-47's, 4 items
7. Stuka, 5 items
8. Diagram- Douglas Boston III - 1 item
9. Articles from Air Force Association magazine, 75 items
10. Developmental Design Drawings - Lockheed/Boeing Aircraft, 5 items
11. Narrative Report for Form 19, dated Sept. 1968 and Dec 5, 1969, and 9 blank forms - 11 items
12. Search Instructions for Pilot’s 1966 Start test - 10 items
13. 10 Pocket Guide Information Reporting System (Card) - 2 items
14. Evaluation/Scoring Cards: 35 Unused and Three Used - 38 items
15. Information Kit, Civil Air Patrol, USAF Auxiliary - 2 items
16. Handwritten Notes on the Civil Air Patrol - 1 item
17. Memos from Headquarters, Louisiana Wing, Civil Air Patrol, 6 items
18. News Releases, 1966 and 1968, 4 items
19. Civil Air Patrol Information, 1969, 7 items
20. Civil Air Patrol Manual, Information Officers Handbook, July 1966, - 2 items
21. Correspondence from William Grasiano, Information Officer, Hammond Squadron, 5 items
22. I.O. Guide Reporting and Evaluation System, CAP Manual 190-2 (1963-64), 3 items
23. The Civil Air Patrol Summer Activities, 1964 - 2 items
24. Leaflets of Col. Lyle W. Castle, Col Paul W. Turner, Col. Joe L. Mason, 8 items
25. Sheets of Letterhead Paper, Hammond Composite Squadron 16008 - 5 items
26. Louisiana Newscap, Vol. 1, No. 4, August 1967, - 1 item
JUDGE LEON FORD III COLLECTION-AIR FORCE
Box 11
FOLDER
1. Civil Air Patrol U.S. Air Force Civilian Auxiliary Information Kit, 25 items
2. Five Page Check List for a T-34-A - 5 items
3. Newspaper Clipping About New CAP hangar and 5 photos of hangar in construction, 6 items
4. Newspaper Clippings About Civil Air Patrol, 9 items
5. Member Hammond High Boosters Club 1966-67 - 1 item
6. I.O. Newsletters (6 copies from 1965-66) - 6 items
7. Information About Civil Air Patrol’s 23rd, 24th, 25th, and 27th Anniversaries, 10 items
8. Business Card of Clifford G. Massoth, Public Relations Officer, ICRR - 1 item
9. Civil Air patrol - Magazine and Newspaper Articles, 25 items
10. Louisiana Airports, Department of Public Works, January 1947, 14 items
11. Civil Air Patrol - Hammond Airport - Financial Records, 1957-1959, 14 items
12. Civil Air Patrol - Hammond Airport - Concession Account Records, 1957-1959, 19 items
13. Alexandria AAF Gunnery Range Draft, 1 item
14. Sketches of planes, article re: 8th Bomber Wing - 7 items
15. Maps of Korea - 5 items
16. 6172 Air Base Squadron - Korea - 6 items
17. Japan related items (ads) - 5 items
18. Airforce photos - fighters and military personnel - 14 items
19. JAG - newspaper articles - 28 items
JUDGE LEON FORD III COLLECTION-AIR FORCE
Box 12
FOLDER
1. Coffee Tower, an abbreviated history of the 459th Bomb Group with a letter from Lyle McCarty Military Airlift Command; Folder of information concerning Pope Air Force Base and Glider Photographs; Burtonwood Times: April 1989 and August, 1989; 50th Anniversary of the 1940 mobilization of Camp Beauregard; 1990 Information Packet; (9) Air Force medals.
2. Pamphlet from the Deming Army Air Field, November 7, 1943.
3.Letter from Peter DeNevai, Duchesne, UT, June 17, 1996 along with five matchbook covers from the WWI era: Marianna AAF; Camp McCain, MS; USS New Orleans destroyer; Camp MacKell, NC; Gunter AAF, AL.
4. 1933-34 Aviation Atlas, Gulf Refining Company, Third Edition.
5. The Eagles Class 44-D, Eagle Pass Army Air Field, Eagle Pass, Texas.
6. Folder marked "photos airport": 3 blank sheets of letterhead, LEON FORD III, Judge, Retired, Twenty-First Judicial District; Letter from Judge Ford to American Airlines dated 11, October, 1995; 7 pages of handwritten notes; 7 photocopied pages of a newspaper article; 3 B&W photographs and 1 color photograph; Business card for Ray Brandly; 3 photos of a Waco airplane; Index card with info from factor sales record of a Waco; Newspaper article "Mardi Gras Visitors Die in Flaming Plane Crash Near Hammond."
7. 3 page handwritten list of WWII veterans to interview.
8. Handwritten note regarding reprint of Hammond Army Air Field.
