Dewey Hooper Collection
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Title
Dewey Hooper Collection
Subject
Dewey Hooper, Elon College Class of 1940
Description
This is a collection of artifacts and documents relating to Dewey Hooper, a 1940 alumnus of Elon College. Hooper enlisted in the United States Army in May 1941 and became a pilot in the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II. He was the co-pilot of a B-24 Liberator Bomber nicknamed 'The Texas Terror" that crashed into Mt. Straloch on Hitchenbrook Island off the coast of Queensland, Australia, on December 18, 1942, killing all onboard, including Hooper. In 1990, Australian Ron Deering discovered Second Lieutenant Hooper's class ring in the bomber's wreckage and returned it and other artifacts from the crash site to the pilot's family.
Creator
Dewey Hooper
Source
Dewey Hooper Collection
Publisher
Archives and Special Collections, Elon University
Date
1939-1994
Contributor
Family of Dewey Hooper
Rights
Held by Elon University
Format
Physical Objects, Photographs, and Paper Documents
Language
English
Type
Manuscript Collection
Identifier
Mss.Coll.011
Coverage
Second World War
Collection Items
Second Lieutenant Dewey Hooper, Elon class of 1940
This is a portrait of Dewey Hooper taken in 1942, after he had completed his flight training and been commissioned as an officer in the U.S. Army Air Forces at the Advanced Flying School at Turner Air Field (later Turner Air Force Base), Albany,…
Dewey Hooper 1939 Discharge Certificate
Discharge Certificate for Dewey Hooper from North Carolina National Guard, 1939
Dewey Hooper Teaching Certificate
Teaching certificate issued to Dewey Hooper by North Carolina Department of Public Instruction
1940 Phi Psi Cli Yearbook Senior Profile of Senior Dewey Hooper
This is an image of page 30 of the 1940 PhI Psi Cli, featuring senior profile of Dewey Hooper
Dewey Hooper Certificate, Southeast Air Corps Training Center
Certificate showing Dewey Hooper's promotion to Corporal in the Corps of Aviation Cadets at the Southeast Air Corps Training Center, Maxwell Field, Alabama while training for the U.S. Army Air Corps.
Dewey Hooper Discharge Certificate, U.S. Army
Honorable Discharge Certificate from United States Army for Dewey Hooper, so that he could accept an officer's commission in the U.S. Army Air Force Reserve, dated August 4, 1942.
Pilot Log Book belonging to Dewey Hooper
This is a pilot log book used by Dewey G. Hooper, Elon College class of 1940, showing his flight hours from January to August 1942, while he was in flight school for the U.S. Army Air Corps. The image is of just two pages of the book, dates 5-23 to…
Personnel Order No. 186, Dewey Hooper
Personnel Order No. 186, dated August 5, 1942, from the Headquarters of the Army Air Forces, War Department, Washington DC. This memo certifies that Second Lieutenant Dewey Glenn Hooper is rated as a pilot in the Army Air Forces
Photograph #1 of Wreckage, Dewey Hooper's B-24 Bomber, Mt. Straloch, Hitchenbrook Island, Queensland, Australia
This photograph is of Mt. Straloch, Hitchenbrook Island, Queensland Australia. A black dot on photograph shows where the wreck site is. Mt. Straloch is located at 18 degrees, 27', 35" south (latitude) and 146 degrees, 17' east (longitude)
Photograph #2 of Wreckage, Dewey Hooper's B-24, Mt. Straloch, Hitchenbrook Island, Queensland, Australia
Photograph is view from wreck looking back southeast. Black dot is where Photograph #1 was taken