Judge Leon Ford III

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.