Authentic! Top Gun Flyer's Helmet Bag Pilot Aviator USN Navy
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L 19" X W 18" X H 1"
This bag was awarded to me by a Naval Officer at Glenview in the early 1980's as the winner of a sales contest. There was only one bag given away.
A brief history of Naval Air Station Glenview
U.S. Naval air power came of age in the years prior to and during World War II. During this time, Naval Air Station (NAS) Glenview was the largest primary training facility for the U.S. Navy. Nearly 9,000 aviation cadets received primary flight training at this site, and an additional 17,000 pilots were qualified for carrier landings through the Carrier Qualification Training Units.
As a site for naval air training, Glenview was ideally located. It was away from the threats to planes and carriers on either coast and close to the Great Lakes. To make a carrier qualification center, the Navy retrofitted two paddle steamers in Lake Michigan into aircraft carriers, and pilots were able to train for take-off and landing certification. While future pilots were being certified, enlisted men who would be serving on the carriers were trained on a mock carrier deck, reconstructed inside Hangar One. By war’s end, over 17,000 pilots had been qualified, and two retrofitted carriers, the USS Sable, and the USS Wolverine had logged over 135,000 landings. Pilots trained at NAS Glenview served in all theaters of World War II.
This bag was awarded to me by a Naval Officer at Glenview in the early 1980's as the winner of a sales contest. There was only one bag given away.
A brief history of Naval Air Station Glenview
U.S. Naval air power came of age in the years prior to and during World War II. During this time, Naval Air Station (NAS) Glenview was the largest primary training facility for the U.S. Navy. Nearly 9,000 aviation cadets received primary flight training at this site, and an additional 17,000 pilots were qualified for carrier landings through the Carrier Qualification Training Units.
As a site for naval air training, Glenview was ideally located. It was away from the threats to planes and carriers on either coast and close to the Great Lakes. To make a carrier qualification center, the Navy retrofitted two paddle steamers in Lake Michigan into aircraft carriers, and pilots were able to train for take-off and landing certification. While future pilots were being certified, enlisted men who would be serving on the carriers were trained on a mock carrier deck, reconstructed inside Hangar One. By war’s end, over 17,000 pilots had been qualified, and two retrofitted carriers, the USS Sable, and the USS Wolverine had logged over 135,000 landings. Pilots trained at NAS Glenview served in all theaters of World War II.
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