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Army Air Forces B-25 pilot training at Columbia Army Air Base is documented through 2nd Lt. Floyd J. Good's flight records, B-25 questionnaire, training papers, base photographs, and an associated TB-25 cockpit checklist marked "Horg, L. M. / 45-B / C-1." Good's file places him in the 376th Squadron, 309th Bombardment Group, with records tracking day and night flying, first pilot time, instructor time, combat crew entries, and related duty. One later flight sheet notes that Good was "killed in accidental explosion July 1944," while the Horg checklist, dated January 26, 1945, carries working cockpit procedures for takeoff, single-engine drills, supercharger use, landing, and shutdown. 1943 to 1945, chiefly Columbia Army Air Base, Columbia, South Carolina. Mixed archive of 66 items, including 17 Individual Flight Record sheets, 29 black-and-white photographs, Good's Pilot's Information File and related training, status, medical, and administrative papers, a multi-page "B-25 Questionnaire" with handwritten answers, and one folding "TB-25 CHECK LIST" with printed procedures and pencil notes. Good's flight records and training papers, 1943 to 1944. Seventeen Individual Flight Record sheets and related forms record Good's progress through B-25 training, including aircraft type, flight hours, instructor time, medical classification, and duty status. The B-25 questionnaire includes handwritten answers on hydraulic pressure, emergency brakes, landing gear, flaps, bomb bay doors, and cockpit procedure. Columbia Army Air Base photographs, circa 1943 to 1944. Twenty nine photographs record classroom instruction before a chalked airfield diagram, formation drill, band and flag ceremony, barracks leisure, barbering, reading room interiors, B-25 activity on the field, and aircrew posed in flight gear before aircraft. Several versos carry crop measurements or layout marks. Also includes a wartime B-25 flight checklist, dated January 26, 1945, documenting cockpit procedure while B-25s were still in active combat service rather than training. Horg, L. M. "TB-25 CHECK LIST." Folding cockpit checklist marked "HORG" and "Horg, L. M. / 45-B / C-1," with sections for pre-inspection, starting engines, taxi, single-engine stopping and starting drills, before takeoff, climb, landing, and stopping procedure. Its pencil reminders, including "BOOSTERS ON / WHEELS DOWN," "LEARN," and "150 FLAPS," show use as a working pilot's reference at the height of the final wartime training cycle, when Army Air Forces pilots were still being prepared for medium-bomber operations for 7 months, before Japan's surrender. This gives the archive a direct war-date cockpit component, connecting Good's stateside B-25 training file to the procedural discipline required of pilots flying an aircraft still central to Allied tactical bombing, anti-shipping, and ground-support missions. Columbia Army Air Base trained medium bomber pilots for an aircraft used in tactical bombing, anti-shipping strikes, airfield attacks, and ground-support missions across the Mediterranean and Pacific theaters. Good's file records the institutional threshold for that work through flight time, medical status, instructor approval, and technical examination, while Horg's checklist records the cockpit habits expected of a pilot moving toward operational flying: single-engine control at 140 m.p.h., supercharger use above 11,000 feet, booster pump commands, landing-gear timing, and radio calls. The archive connects the classroom, personnel office, flight line, and cockpit, preserving the chain between stateside instruction and the emergency procedures required of Army Air Forces B-25 pilots. Documents and checklist with toning, filing holes, creasing, soiling, and handling wear; photographs with light fading, silvering, and occasional surface abrasions. Overall good condition.
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