WHEELUS SOCIAL GROUPS AND RESEARCH SOURCES
The AOSHS has been a wonderful source of information regarding the life of the children and teenagers whose parents were stationed at Wheelus Air Base. They have a great collection of Yearbooks, which can be accessed online and many amazing photographs, of classrooms, teachers and children.
The AOSHS covers all overseas schools, for what they call U.S ‘military brats’, that being the children of the U.S Armed Forces. We would like to give special thanks to Doug Kelsey and Alan Gossman who have been invaluable in their help with this exhibition. 1
This brilliant facebook page is run by Mike Nemecek, who has been an amazing source of help to our project. He has supplied us with a vast amount of photographs and footage.
The page is full of information regarding Wheelus, with contributions from its many members.It has allowed us to take a look at the lives and memories of the staff, crew and their dependents, some of which have been kind enough to allow us to share their personal memories, which have been written exclusively for this exhibition.
Our heartfelt thanks go out to Mike, and also Allan Lindsay and Steven T White, for allowing us to share their photos, cine footage and most important of all, their memories.
Wheelus Air Base Facebook Page
The National Archives Museum along with The Presidential Library are based in Washington D.C and offer a wealth of information regarding military service records and documentation of U.s. government correspondence on a variety of military issues.
the National archives &
the presidential libraries system
The National Archives Building, Washington D.C. Gabichan2020, Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Seal of the US Presidential Libraries
The National Museum of the United States Air Force, is based at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio, and is the world’s largest military aviation museum, with more than 19 acres of indoor exhibit space. There are more than 350 aerospace vehicles and missiles to view, plus thousands of artifacts.
The museum has been a great source of information for us and we would like to thank them for allowing us to use information and photographs for our Wheelus Exhibition.
The museum is open 9am to 5pm, seven days per week and offers free entry and free parking.
National Museum of the U.S. Air Force via NMUSAF, CC BY-SA 4.
Wikimedia Commons
National Museum of the
United States Air Force
Wheelus-Ex-Students-Com, has been a great source of help in the making of this exhibition. It is open to ex-students of Wheelus Air Base and provides excellent photos of the base, its amenities and the students. You can also find details of their 2022 Wheelus Air Base ex-Students Reunion, which will be held in Memphis,Tennessee on June 9th-12th, 2022.
Our special thanks and gratitude go to Judy Moore, who is the owner of the website. Judy has allowed us to use many of her photographs for our exhibition.
Wheelus EX-STUDENTS SITE
FOOTNOTES
Wikimedia Foundation. (2022, October 17). Mitiga International Airport. Wikipedia. Retrieved November 19, 2022, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitiga_International_Airport.
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Ibid.,
Tripoli Mitiga Airport. CAPA - Centre for Aviation. (n.d.). Retrieved November 19, 2022, from https://centreforaviation.com/data/profiles/airports/tripoli-mitiga-airport-mji