Collection Size:  1.5 cubic feet

Date: 1929-1988

Scope/Content: Papers include materials from flight school training, photographs, military orders, maps, a diary by Dorsey of D-Day June 1944, correspondence to Dorsey by family and friends during World War II, and miscellaneous items.  Organized into 4 series:  1. Correspondence;  2. Military Service Docuements;  3. Photographs;  4. Miscellaneous.

Biographical Note: Dorsey was a native of Opelika, Alabama, and attended Alabama Polytechnic Institute. He was a combat pilot in the European Theatre in World War II with 44 combat missions. He was awarded the Air Medal and the Distinguished Flying Cross. After the war he was a commercial pilot and instructor, and later an accountant.
 

SERIES 1: Correspondence:

• Correspondence, 1929-1942
• Correspondence, 1943 (11 folders)
• Correspondence, 1944 (15 folders)
• Correspondence, 1945 (6 folders)
• Correspondence, 1946, 1984, 1988
• Correspondence, undated (2 folders)

SERIES 2: Military Service Documents. Includes Flight training materials.

• D-Day Diary
• Preflight School Program of Instruction
• Flight School Books
• Flight Training Records
• Military Information Sheets
• Military Orders [3 folders]
• Military Publications
• Maps
• Pre-Flight School Test Book
• Pilot’s Processing Portfolio

• Photographs, Isham J. Dorsey III
• Photographs, Military
• Photographs, Opelika, Family, Women

SERIES 4: Miscellaneous

• Newspaper Clippings
• Certificates
• Miscellaneous
• Radio Broadcast
• Financial Records

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