134 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1948 
Firr, Capt. Wi1i1aM P., Johnson City, Tenn.: A Japanese parachute, Worla War 
II, picked up by the donor in the Philippines at Clark Field, 1945 (178940). 
Forp, Harry H., Bridgeport, Conn.: A Roberts engine, an El Arco radiator and 
a wooden propeller used on donor’s Curtiss type “hydroaeroplane,” 1912-13, 
and a photograph which shows the plane with donor at controls, taking off 
from Bridgeport Harbor, Conn., July 4, 1912 (179698). 
Forp, LYMAN. (See under Pioneer Parachute Co., Inc.) 
GargER, Paut Epwarp, Washington, D. C.: An criginal Currier & Ives print illus- 
trating the use of Thaddeus Lowe’s Civil War Balloon at the Battle of Fair 
Oaks, Va., May 31, 1862 (176970). 
GARDNER, GEORGE. (See under Pan American World Airways System.) 
GELLY, G.B. (See under Douglas Aircraft Co., Inc.) 
Goopricu Co., B. F., Akron, Ohio: (Through H. W. Maxson) Stratosphere pres- 
sureized suit, designed and constructed by the donor organization for United 
States Air Forees (179106). 
HEIL, Dr. WALTER. (See under M. H. DeYoung Memorial Museum.) 
Hicxs, Ser. WittrAm T., Washington, D. C.: Winter flying suit used by Japanese 
aviators in World War II (178840) ; a Japanese aerial bomb of the small anti- 
personnel type (179061). 
Hovey, Brig. Gen. B. M. (See under National Military Establishment, Depart- 
ment of the Air Force.) 
JACOEL CABLE SPLICING EQUIPMENT Co., Philadelphia, Pa.: (Through J. Reaney) 
A Jacoel machine and kit used for splicing aircraft cables (175189). 
Kerp, F. B., Santa Clara, Calif.: A group of 26 photographs illustrating the 
accomplishments of Prof. John J. Montgomery of Santa Clara University in his 
glider flights, 1905-11 (179258). 
KIMBALL, D. A. (See under Aerojet Engineering Corp.) 
Koprers ©o., Inc., Baltimore, Md.: (Through John D. Waugh) 2 examples of 
Aeromatie propeller development in the past 10 years and a 3-bladed German 
VDM propeller (179611). 
Kovnat, BERNARD. (See under United Air lines.) 
Lanp, Admiral Emory S. (See under Air Transport Association of America.) 
LaskowlITz, I. B., Brooklyn, N. ¥.: A wind-tunnel test model of a rotary unit as 
applied to a direct-lift rotary winged aircraft ; and reference material (178990). 
LorNporr, WALTER, Waukesha, Wis.: A pair of goggles worn by Rear Admiral 
Albert C. Read (then Lt. Cmdr.) when commanding the Navy’s NC-4 flying 
boat which accomplished the first trans-Atlantic flight, 1919 (179609). 
Maxson, H.W. (See under B. F. Goodrich Co.) 
McRoserts, Sgt. Ropert L., Washington, D. C.: 2 original photographs of Lilien- 
thal gliders, 1896, obtained from Otto Lilienthal’s son by the donor in Augs- 
burg, Germany, 1945 (178938) . 
Muzzy, A. V., Tyler Tex.: Experimental ground-to-air human pick-up equipment 
invented by donor in 1937 (176281). 
NATIONAL Minirary HSTABLISHMENT: 
Department of the Air Force, Washington, D. C.: (Through Brig. Gen. B. M. 
Hovey) 2 insignia painted on masonite plaques illustrating devices for 
identifying airplanes based at Bolling Field, D. C. (178716); (through 
Gen. Carl Spaatz) a German machine gun, World War I, recovered from 
one of the 54 planes shot down by the French ace, Georges Guynemer ; 
originally presented in December 1946 to Gen. Carl Spaatz by Mr. Guy- 
nemer’s sister Mme. de la Noue (178839, loan). 
