Newsletter Collection Donation

January 2003

Hell's Angels Newsletter Collection Donated to the Libraries

The George A. Smathers Libraries will accept a donation of the Hell’s Angels Newsletter Silver Anniversary Collection: A World War II Retrospective.

Betty Kelley, Sarasota resident, will present the collection to the libraries on Wednesday, January 29, 2003, at 11 a.m. in the Special Collections Research Room in Smathers Library. Kelley’s late husband was a Hell’s Angel. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, Silver Star, Purple Heart and Air Medal for combat in World War II.

The newsletter collection is a two-volume set based on 25 years of publication of the quarterly “Hell’s Angels Newsletter” by the 303^rd Bomb Group Association, a veterans’ organization. It is a compilation of postwar coverage, personal narratives and photographs about aerial combat operations by the U.S. Eighth Air Force in Europe from 1942 to 1945.

Eddie Deerfield, LTC, editor of the collection, said, “I believe the University of Florida will find them to be of special interest to students, faculty and visiting scholars interested in hundreds of first-hand accounts of aerial warfare against Nazi Germany in World War II.”

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