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Among his military flying experiences were flying the P-38 fighter and C-45 transport, flying transport missions for prisoners of war and other cargo flights, and serving as co-pilot to the Chief Test Pilot of the 315th Bomb Wing (VH). His solo flight was in 1943.įirst serving as a B-17 bomber pilot, Cooper became a B-29 bomber co-pilot stationed first on Guam with the 501st Group, 315th Bomb Wing, Very Heavy (VH), of the 20th Air Force.
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At the age of 17, he was introduced to aviation as he worked at Beech Aircraft while attending the Municipal University of Wichita (now Wichita State University.) America's entrance into World War II in December 1941 interrupted his studies and the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo in April 1942 inspired Cooper to enlist for pilot training in the U.S. Throughout his life aviation interests were interwoven with his business activities until his death, due to congestive heart failure in Dallas on March 6, 2008.Ĭooper was born Octoin Wichita, Kansas. (one folder) of duplicate photographs, clippings, articles, and two memorabilia (commemorative medals) were removed to be de-accessioned.Ĭontrolled Access Headings Personal Name(s)Īlthough not as well known as others who have achieved notoriety and fame in aviation circles, William Edward (Bill) Cooper was, nonetheless, a “mover and shaker” in the Dallas, Texas, and North Texas aviation and business communities from the 1950’s through the turn of the century. In the instances where photograph caption labels were affixed to album/scrapbook pages, photocopies of the captioned pages were made and are preserved in the collection with the photographs.Īll loose photographs were put in polypropylene sleeves.Īll staples have been removed and replaced with coated paperclips. They have been removed from the album/scrapbook cover and pages and stored in an archival save box. The photograph album and scrapbook were in their original state, these materials were contained in an album/scrapbook in plastic and adhesive sheet protector pages.
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The contents of books and notebooks originally contained in three-ring binders have been placed in folders in their original order in the appropriate series and subseries. Cooper Papers were donated to the History of Aviation Collection, Special Collections Department, Eugene McDermott Library, The University of Texas at Dallas, by the Frontiers of Flight Museum on June 16, 2008. Materials were inventoried at the Museum, which retained the significant artifacts in the collection, and archival materials were received by the History of Aviation Collection, Special Collections Department, Eugene McDermott Library, The University of Texas at Dallas. Cooper to the Frontiers of Flight Museum, Dallas, Texas, of which Cooper was a co-founder, by Lyn Cooper Abercrombie, on March 26, 2008. The collection was first donated on behalf of the family of William E.
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Permission to publish material from this collection in any form, current or future, must be obtained from the Special Collections Department, Eugene McDermott Library, The University of Texas at Dallas. Materials in this collection are open for research. The first revision was a conversion to HTML Format. 18 December 2014 Access Restrictions Special Collections Department, History of Aviation Collection. 20 October 2009 800 West Campbell Road, MC33 Cooper Papers, Document name or type, Folder number, Box number, Series number, History of Aviation Collection, Special Collections Department, Eugene McDermott Library, The University of Texas at Dallas.Īdministrative Information Publication Information