Overview of the Collection |
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| Creator: | Craig, Howard A. |
| Title: | Howard A. Craig Papers |
| Inclusive Dates: | 1919-1959 |
| Quantity: | 8 linear ft. |
| Abstract: | Papers of the U.S. Air Force officer. Collection includes correspondence (1938-1959); flight records (1937-1951); photographs; pilot's books; scrapbooks (1919-1959), and clippings. |
| Language: | English |
| Repository: | Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Library 222 Waverly Avenue Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 http://scrc.syr.edu |
Howard A. "Pinky" Craig (1897-1977) was an American Air Force officer and pilot. He joined the Air Force during World War I and eventually rose to the rank of Lieutenant General. Over the course of his career he was a bomber pilot, commanded a fighter group in Tunisia, led the XII Air Support Command during the North Africa campaign, was on the General Staff of the War Department, headed the Alaska Command, and served as commander of the National War College. His memoirs, Sunward I've Climbed: A Personal Narrative of Peace and War were published in 1975.
The Howard A. Craig Papers consist of general files and a few scrapbooks.
There are no access restrictions on this material.
Written permission must be obtained from SCRC and all relevant rights holders before publishing quotations, excerpts or images from any materials in this collection.
Signed copy of Craig's memoirs, Sunward I've Climbed, transferred to Rare Books for cataloging, 1/12/2010.
Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
Howard A. Craig Papers,
Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Library
Created by: -
Date: 1983
Revision history: 11 Jan 2010 - converted to EAD, box no's fixed (MRC)
| General files | |||||||||||
| Correspondence | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | 1938-1947 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | 1948-1952 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | 1953-1959, undated | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | 201 file 1947-1952 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | National War College and Inter-American Defense Board 1949-1955 - orders | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Orders and vouchers | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Special orders | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Individual flight records 1937, 1943-1951 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Flying time reports | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Speeches | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Alaska - construction and transportation material | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Dept. of Defense Reserve Award to Solano County (California) Superintendent of Schools | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Itineraries | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Eisenhower visit to Adak, Alaska - 2 16-mm films | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Letter, Marshall to Eisenhower 7 May 1945 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Memos, cards, invitations | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Photographs | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Proceedings, Board of Review, Airborne Operations | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Inter-American Defense Board - correspondence and related material | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Report of Board of Officers on reorganization of War Department | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Algeria, map | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Japanese surrender, World War II (copy) | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Pilot's books, no. 1-5 | ||||||||||
| Photographs | |||||||||||
| Box 6 | Alaska | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Bad Godesberg | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Bohemian Grove | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Chile | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Columbia | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | General Craig | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Dominican Republic | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | England | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Guatemala | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Haiti | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Inter-American Defense Board | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | National War College | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Rome | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Uruguay | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Venezuela | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Miscellaneous | ||||||||||
| Published volume, Sunward I've Climbed, signed | |||||||||||
| Transferred to Rare Books for cataloging, 1/12/2010. | |||||||||||
| Reference material | |||||||||||
| Box 7 | Manuscripts by others (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Published material | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | Published material | ||||||||||
| Box 9 | News clippings (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 9 | Published articles about Craig (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Scrapbooks | |||||||||||
| Alaska circa 1946 (2 volumes) | |||||||||||
| Argentina 1953 (3 volumes) | |||||||||||
| 5th Bombardment Wing 1919-1959 (2 volumes) | |||||||||||
| National War College, graduate 1955 (2 volumes) | |||||||||||
| Uruguayan Navy / Inter-American Defense Board 1953 (2 volumes) | |||||||||||
| Miscellaneous 1920-1951 (2 volumes) | |||||||||||
