Box 69
Container
Contains 4 Collections and/or Records:
Roy D. Bridges Jr. papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSA 6
Scope and Contents
The Roy D. Bridges Jr. papers document the extensive Air Force and NASA career of Roy D. Bridges Jr.The papers include but are not limited to, artifacts, audio visual material, awards, books, briefs and records, certificates, clippings, clothing, correspondence, diaries, documents, flight logs, flight checklists and data files, along with Bridges' pilot kneeboard notes, medals, mementos, papers, photographs, scrapbooks, textbooks, research papers, and working paper...
Dates:
1950 - 2013
Photographs, 1965 - 2010
Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 7
Scope and Contents
The earliest Air Force photographs feature Bridges in Cadet Wing Staff uniform, training class group photographs, and photographs from Vietnam and Commando Sabre Operation (Misty), Phu Cat Air Base, Republic of Vietnam, 1968. Also found in this series is a photo album which was presented to Bridges in July 1975 by Test Operations on his departure from Edwards Air Force Base, California. It contains photographs of colleagues with inscriptions to Bridges. Other photographs from Bridges' Air Force...
Dates:
1965 - 2010
Air Force, 1965 - 1993
Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 7, Sub-Series 1
Scope and Contents
A scope note is provided at the sub-group level.
Dates:
1965 - 1993
Commander, 6510th Test Wing, Edwards Air Force Base, California, May 1986 - March 1989
Sub-Group — Box: 69
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 7, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 3
Scope and Contents
In Bridges' words this sub-group contains, "Photographs of the activation ceremony for the 419 TW at Edwards AFB in early 1989. I gave all new squadrons their flags in this ceremony. 6510 TW was disestablished and 419th was stood up. I was the leader of the massive reorganization." Includes 34, 5" x 7" photographs.
Dates:
May 1986 - March 1989