TY  - GEN
AU  - Ballentine,John J.
TI  - John J. Ballentine papers,
KW  - Barth, Theodore H.
KW  - United States
KW  - Navy
KW  - Aviation
KW  - Foreign service
KW  - Atlantic Ocean
KW  - Mediterranean Region
KW  - Officers
KW  - Atlantic Fleet
KW  - Air Force
KW  - Carrier Division One
KW  - Fleet, 6th
KW  - Bunker Hill (Aircraft carrier : CV-17)
KW  - Carl L. Norden, Inc
KW  - Naval Proving Ground (Dahlgren, Va.)
KW  - Aeronautics, Military
KW  - Airplanes, Military
KW  - Flight testing
KW  - Flight
KW  - Flight training
KW  - Hunting
KW  - Korean War, 1950-1953
KW  - Norden bombsight
KW  - Operation Torch, 1942
KW  - Remote control
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Aerial operations, American
KW  - Campaigns
KW  - Africa, North
KW  - Pacific Ocean
KW  - Naval operations, American
KW  - Armed forces
KW  - Aviators
KW  - itoamc
KW  - Naval officers
N1  - Open to research
N2  - Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, logbooks, military records, biographical materials, scrapbooks, clippings, photographs, and other papers relating primarily to Ballentine's naval career after 1920; Documents Ballentine's training as an air pilot; his duties at the Naval Proving Ground, Dahlgren, Va., including the testing of the Norden bombsight and the first remote-controlled airplane; his correspondence with Theodore H. Barth, president of Carl L. Norden, Inc., relating to the testing and production of Norden bombsights; his activities during World War II off the coast of North Africa during Operation Torch (1942) and as first commanding officer of the Bunker Hill (aircraft carrier) in campaigns in the Pacific Ocean (1943-1944); his postwar tours of duty in the Mediterranean as commander of Carrier Division One (1947-1949) and as commander of the Sixth Fleet (1949-1951); his tour of duty (1951-1954) as Commander Air Force Atlantic Fleet (COMAIRLANT); his activities as a member of a U.S. armed forces interservice board in Washington, D.C. (1956-1957); and his lifelong interest in hunting.  Correspondence received as COMAIRLANT includes reports from commanders in the Mediterranean and information on the Korean War.  Includes histories of U.S. naval aviation
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms997013
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms997013.3
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