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UPL 40443

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 40443
  • Description: Flight Sergeant Michael J. Murayda while assigned to the RAF Polish 302 Squadron as a US Volunteer.

UPL 40444

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 40444
  • Description: Michael J. Murayda home on leave in Akron, Ohio after enlisting in Canada in 1939 through the Clayton Knight Committee. This photo was taken sometime...

UPL 40446

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 40446
  • Description: Second Lieutenant Michael J. Murayda's Polish Cross of Valor award.

UPL 40447

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 40447
  • Description: 56th Fighter Group, 61st Squadron roster of names including Michael J. Murayda.

UPL 40448

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 40448
  • Description: Flight Officers Michael J. Murayda and friend Flight Officer Longin Winski (both formerly with the RAF Polish 302 Squadron) newly assigned to the 56th...

UPL 40449

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 40449
  • Description: 1962 obituary of Second Lieutenant Michael J. Murayda.

UPL 40452

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 40452
  • Description: Polish Cross of Valor translation of citation

UPL 40499

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 40499
  • Description: T/Sgt Vincent L. Hrupek receiving his Bronze Star from Brig. General Murray C. Woodbury, September 29, 1944 at an airbase in England.

UPL 43450

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 43450
  • Description: This is me, Amanda Athanas, Col. Athanas’s youngest daughter. Dad recommended I join the US Army after high school. Here I was in Ft. Carson, CO and...

UPL 43451

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 43451
  • Description: This is an acrylic on canvas painting of San Francisco using only putty knives I watched my Dad paint in our back yard in 1972. It is abstract up...

UPL 43452

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 43452
  • Description: This was my official US Army photo from Basic Training.

UPL 43453

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 43453
  • Description: This is probably the only photo I have of Dad during the 1944-45 timeframe. Look at the bill on that hat — a great “40 Mission Crush!” He flew 35...

UPL 43454

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 43454
  • Description: This was Dad’s last official military photo (probably for his ID card).

UPL 43455

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 43455
  • Description: Athan Athanas - Obituary.

UPL 43456

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 43456
  • Description: This was in Weisbaden, Germany probably taken at the BX photo center on Base in 1959. I was about a year old. Dad had been a Captain for over a year...

UPL 43457

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 43457
  • Description: Dad typed this up himself in his bedroom converted into a home office on a little electric Smith-Corona. He loved organizing information, especially...

UPL 43458

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 43458
  • Description: This was a photo that went with an article in the Hamilton AFB, Calif. Base Newsletter about an ATC project my Dad was involved in.

UPL 43459

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 43459
  • Description: This is the article itself (that goes with the photo).

UPL 43460

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 43460
  • Description: Whenever there was a “mandatory” Randolph AFB, San Antonio, TX holiday event, Dad detested dressing up and being all “social.” Mom, on the other hand...

UPL 43461

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 43461
  • Description: Recently riffed after the end of WWII, Dad returned home to 163 Henderson Street in Hot Springs to see his parents and 2 sisters, Carolyn Bob and...