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Leon D. "Bink" Brown spent 35 years as an aeronautical engineer working on various projects, including the Consolidated B-24 Liberator and the Atlas missiIe project with General Dynamics. He spent the last 18 months of World War II as a Technical Representative for Consolidated on the B-24, training pilots throughout the Pacific Theater on mockup systems. During those 18 months he spent time in the Philippines and Australia and was in Okinawa during the Japanese surrender.

Identifier

NASM.2002.0029

Creator

Brown, Leon D. "Bink"

Date

1944-1945

Provenance

Leon Brown, Gift, 2002

Extent

0.55 Cubic feet ((1 folder, 1 VHS tape))

Archival Repository

National Air and Space Museum Archives

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of 79 color slides taken during Leon Brown's time in the Pacific Theater in World War II. In addition to the slides there are also four color prints and a videotape. The videotape is a home recording of the slides being projected, with Brown narrating in the background. After the slide portion of videotape is a recording of a lunch discussion among Brown, his wife, World War II test engineer Lindy Levine and an unidentified individual. The slide images consist of photographs of and taken by Brown and include various subjects including the B-32 Dominator and B-24 Liberator, and captured Japanese aircraft such as the Mitsubishi J2M Raiden. Also included are images of the 90th Bomb Group the "Jolly Rogers," and the 43rd Bomb Group B-24 Liberators "The Dragon and His Tail" and "It Ain't So Funny." Photographs were taken in Australia, Ie Shima during the Japanese surrender, New Guinea, and Subic Bay and Clark Field in the Philippines.

Rights

Material is subject to Smithsonian Terms of Use. Should you wish to use NASM material in any medium, please submit an Application for Permission to Reproduce NASM Material, available at Permissions Requests

Restrictions

No restrictions on access.

Citation

Fifth Air Force Color Slides [Leon D. Brown], Accession 2002-0029, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.

Topics

World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations
World War, 1939-1945 -- Pacific Ocean
Consolidated B-24 Family
Consolidated B-32 Terminator, Dominator
Mitsubishi J2M Raiden "Jack"
Aeronautics

Type

Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Slides (photographs)
Photographs
Vhs (videotape format)