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    I have a collection of books and videos from my Dad's estate. I tried Craigslist and was not successful. It's not that i was asking anything close to value, I just wanted someone who would enjoy the history. You will notice an aircraft theme throughout. My Dad was in New Guinea.
    So, what do i do with this collection? Ebay will cost more to ship than i will get for them. It would make a great Spyder road trip to come and get them, but they will exceed the GVWR of your Spyder. What do i do?
    The libraries don't want them. The Bong Museum in Superior doesn't want them.
    I posted here in OTB because it really isn't a FSBO Spyder related.
    Anyone have any ideas?

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    I sure hope you find a good home for this. It would be a shame to see all that history go to waste. Most all of us owe our very existence, one way or another, to the "Greatest Generation"...... Jim
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    Quote Originally Posted by arachnyd View Post
    I have a collection of books and videos from my Dad's estate. I tried Craigslist and was not successful. It's not that i was asking anything close to value, I just wanted someone who would enjoy the history. You will notice an aircraft theme throughout. My Dad was in New Guinea.
    So, what do i do with this collection? Ebay will cost more to ship than i will get for them. It would make a great Spyder road trip to come and get them, but they will exceed the GVWR of your Spyder. What do i do?
    The libraries don't want them. The Bong Museum in Superior doesn't want them.
    I posted here in OTB because it really isn't a FSBO Spyder related.
    Anyone have any ideas?

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    Contact the Military Museum at Camp Ripley they may be interested. 320-632-7000.
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    I'm going to have breakfast with a friend of mine Sunday morning. He has an extensive private collection of weapons and equipment from the Revolutionary War to present day. I'll show him the pictures. I have a feeling he with snatch them up.
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    Check with your local V.F.W. post.

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    Donate them to Goodwill; they have book sales. I did that last fall with a bunch of books the library wouldn't take because copyright was more than 10 years old.
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    Quote Originally Posted by canamjhb View Post
    I sure hope you find a good home for this. It would be a shame to see all that history go to waste. Most all of us owe our very existence, one way or another, to the "Greatest Generation"...... Jim

    Unfortunately, people in this nation don’t care about history anymore. Shame

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    Quote Originally Posted by arachnyd View Post
    I have a collection of books and videos from my Dad's estate. I tried Craigslist and was not successful. It's not that i was asking anything close to value, I just wanted someone who would enjoy the history. You will notice an aircraft theme throughout. My Dad was in New Guinea.
    So, what do i do with this collection? Ebay will cost more to ship than i will get for them. It would make a great Spyder road trip to come and get them, but they will exceed the GVWR of your Spyder. What do i do?
    The libraries don't want them. The Bong Museum in Superior doesn't want them.
    I posted here in OTB because it really isn't a FSBO Spyder related.
    Anyone have any ideas?

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    You are okay posting here. PS. the suggestion below to try Fort Ripley is also good.

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    On Facebook, there's a group called WWII PICTURES. Try posting the collection there. Everyone there is a WWII buff.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Grandpot View Post
    I'm going to have breakfast with a friend of mine Sunday morning. He has an extensive private collection of weapons and equipment from the Revolutionary War to present day. I'll show him the pictures. I have a feeling he with snatch them up.
    I checked with my friend. He didn't want them either. Sorry.
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    I would enjoy them, but I would probably never take the time to watch.

    However, you mentioned the "Bong Museum in Superior." That hit a sentimental spot.

    Richard "Dick" Bong was the first Pacific Theater Ace, if I remember correctly. Why I know about him is because his photo and posters were all over Lockheed's 'Skunk Works' main engineering building in Burbank. He earned that ACE in a P-38 - 'The Forked Tail Devil,' as the enemy called it. He was a Lockheed hero, along with being a U.S. hero.

    After he made Ace, the Army Air Corp brought him back to the U.S. They did not want him killed in action.

    He was assigned to perform at air shows, etc., to help raise money through 'War Bonds,' I think. Unfortunately, he was killed in an aircraft accident. Here are the facts:


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    The first of nine children, born in 1920 to a Swedish immigrant father and American-born mother, Dick Bong’s upbringing epitomized the values and expectations of that era – loyalty to his family and a deep sense of patriotism. Like all farm children, he had chores to perform and was expected to drive farm machinery at an early age. He hunted and fished in the surrounding woods and streams, played on his school athletic teams and sang in his church choir; as his 4H project he planted the extensive evergreen windbreak on the family farm, still in the family. At that time he modeled the ideal all-American boy.

    Dick became enamored of flying as a small boy, watching planes fly over the farm carrying mail for President Calvin Coolidge’s summer White House in Superior. As a college student he learned to fly in the Civilian Pilot Training program; at the age of 20 he became a flying cadet in the US Army Air Corps, in time for the entry of America into World War II. Dick became America’s all-time Ace of Aces, downing 40 enemy planes in the Pacific theater of the war while flying P-38 fighter planes. His many decorations for outstanding skills and extraordinary courage included the Congressional Medal of Honor.

    Dick was ordered home for his safety and married his sweetheart, Marge, in Superior. Six months later he was killed test piloting the first Lockheed jet fighter plane. His death at the age of 24 occured the same day that the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, yet he received banner headlines in the national newspapers.

    Thousands attended Dick’s funeral services in Superior, and many more lined the funeral route to the Poplar cemetery, where he was buried in the family plot. In 1955, ten years after his death, a memorial was dedicated to Dick Bong in his hometown of Poplar, Wisconsin.

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    In 1944 Dick Bong was awarded the nation’s highest honor by General Douglas MacArthur, Commander of all U.S. Army units in the Far East, who said: “Major Richard Ira Bong, who has ruled the air from New Guinea to the Philippines, I now induct you into the society of the bravest of brave, the wearers of the Congressional Medal of Honor of the United States.”

    Dick Bong, a hero in an era of heroes, represents a generation of young men and women who willingly left their farms, villages, and cities to defend their country’s freedom. They carried out the work that had to be done – and did it well.

    Bong was the first fighter pilot handpicked by General George C. Kenney in the fall of 1942 for a P-38 squadron designed to strengthen his Fifth Air Force in Australia and New Guinea. Dick Bong loved flying and the P-38 was the ideal fighting plane for the combat techniques he mastered: swooping down on his targets and blasting them at dangerously close range, then pulling up fast. His own aircraft was damaged in battle in several of his missions, once so badly he had to crash-land.

    General Kenney pulled Dick Bong out of combat when his score reached 40 and sent him home to “marry Marjorie and start thinking about raising a lot of towheaded Swedes.” Dick and Marge Vattendahl were married February 10, 1945 in Superior, an event attended by 1,200 guests and covered by the international press.

    The couple honeymooned in California for several weeks before reporting to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, where Dick began training for a new assignment in Burbank, California: testing the plane that would take the Air Force into the jet age – the Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star.

    Dick Bong was intrigued by the new jet fighter and enthusiastic about his assignment. On August 6, 1945 (the day the Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima) Dick Bong was killed when the P-80 he was testing stalled and crashed on take-off.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Gldwnger View Post
    Check with your local V.F.W. post.
    Also the American Legion , soldiers home ,VA hospitals

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    Local library?

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    Any luck on the FB group "WWII PICTURES?"
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    It is frustrating, I have some rare books, limited edition stuff including a numbered court transcript of the trial from the The Battle of Little Big Horn from my parents estate. Unfortunately no one collects books any more and the younger generation other than in class doesn't consume info like that and most things can be found on Youtube. Rare book dealer in town tried to sell it for 3 years. Not one bite.
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    Quote Originally Posted by cattleshow View Post
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    Quote Originally Posted by Joe T. View Post
    I would enjoy them, but I would probably never take the time to watch.

    However, you mentioned the "Bong Museum in Superior." That hit a sentimental spot.

    Richard "Dick" Bong was the first Pacific Theater Ace, if I remember correctly. Why I know about him is because his photo and posters were all over Lockheed's 'Skunk Works' main engineering building in Burbank. He earned that ACE in a P-38 - 'The Forked Tail Devil,' as the enemy called it. He was a Lockheed hero, along with being a U.S. hero.

    Thanks for the memories - - - -

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    Thank you Joe. I enjoyed reading that.

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    This is my Dad before "Marge" found a permanent home in Superior.
    Somewhere i have the same picture of him with Marjorie Drucker but i could not find it.

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    Not saying they will want them, but consider contacting your local EAA chapter. Many times the members of these Experimental Aircraft Association chapters are retirees, and with that share a passion for all things aviation.

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    Arachnyd, your dad was very creative and a craftsman.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PMK View Post
    Not saying they will want them, but consider contacting your local EAA chapter. Many times the members of these Experimental Aircraft Association chapters are retirees, and with that share a passion for all things aviation.
    Good thought! The EAA has a very strong Warbirds contingent. They just might be able to find your historical information a good home.

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    Thank you everyone for your suggestions.

    after some donation attempts, i ended up taking them to Half Price Books.

    Someone will enjoy them. There is a WWII section, they will be organized and displayed for someone who is looking for them.

    thanks again for your suggestions.

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    List them on eBay for bid plus shipping. List your zipcode and the weight and suggest interested viewers check what the charge would be for media mail. That is about the cheapest way to ship there is. Anything printed or recorded can be shipped as media as long as there is no personally directed enclosures in the package, other than maybe an invoice. USPS price calculator is here. https://postcalc.usps.com/.

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