American Heritage Center

Screenwriter and director Wanda Tuchock had a long career in Hollywood.

Chaplain Jim – USA was a radio drama broadcast during World War II. It featured the fictitious Chaplain Jim dispensing sage advice to soldiers and their families, as part of an effort to keep morale high.

W. Dillard “Pic” Walker was named an “Elder Statesman of Aviation” by the National Aeronautic Association in 1992. The award capped a 40-year career as a pilot and aviation pioneer.

Learn more in the George C. Frison papers at UW’s American Heritage Center.

Visit UW’s American Heritage Center to learn more about Peyton Place in the Walter Doniger papers.

In the nineteen-teens and twenties, plane flight was booming, but unregulated. New York City established an aerial police force to help reign in the chaos.

The Gettysburg opera premiered at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles in 1938. It was part of a Depression-era Works Progress Administration Federal Music Project designed to employ previously unemployed musicians.

Captain Ralph S. Johnson was an aviation pioneer who developed plane de-icing systems and the “stabilized approach” landing technique, which standardized how pilots make their descents.

Henry Sinclair Drago’s book Notorious Ladies of the Frontier chronicled the life and times of more than a dozen women who were famous and infamous across the West.

In Vietnam in 1968, Bonnie and Clyde, two elephants trained to haul logs, were moved 170 miles by air in a Green Beret coordinated effort known as “Operation Bahroom”. Villagers in Tra Bong used the elephants to transport timber to their community sawmill.