Myers, Henry Papers

Pilot for Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, 1944-1948

The papers of Henry T. Myers consist of correspondence, personnel records, photographs, newspaper clippings and other printed materials, flight records and itineraries, handwritten notes, memorabilia, and other items mostly relating to his activities as President Truman's pilot and his career in aviation.

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ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Size: 10 linear inches (about 1,200 pages).
Access: Open.
Copyright: The donor gave the copyright interest in all writings in this collection to the U.S. government. Documents created by U.S. government employees in the course of their official duties are also in the public domain. Copyright interest in other documents presumably belongs to the creators of those documents, or their heirs.
Processed by:
Updated by: Eric Vaughan (2012) as part of the Truman Library Internship Program.
Supervising Archivists: Randy Sowell and David Clark.

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

1907 (September 16)		Born, Tifton, Georgia
1925		Graduated from Culver Military Academy
1929		B.S. degree, University of Georgia
1930-1932		Cadet and Officer, U.S. Army Air Corps
1932-1942		Pilot with American Airlines; Reserve Officer, U.S. Army Air Corps
1942-1944		Major, U.S. Army Air Forces; Aide and Special Assistant to Commanding General, Air Transport Command
1944-1948		Lt. Colonel, U.S. Army Air Forces and U.S. Air Force; Pilot for Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman
1948-1967		Pilot with American Airlines; rose to rank of Colonel in the Air Force Reserve
1968 (December 8)		Died, Fort Worth, Texas

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COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

The Papers of Henry T. Myers consist of correspondence, personnel records, photographs, newspaper clippings and other printed materials, flight records and itineraries, handwritten notes, and memorabilia mostly relating to his activities as President Truman's pilot and his career in aviation from the 1930s to 1968. The collection documents the flights of Truman on the "Sacred Cow" and the

Independence

, the two Presidential airplanes he used. The collection also contains a number of photographs of Myers's journeys around the world, including the Presidential trip to Mexico City in 1947.

Most of the correspondence and personnel records in the collection date from 1942 to 1948, and concern Myers's service in the Air Transport Command, and especially his activities as a pilot for President Roosevelt, President Truman, and other prominent persons. The printed materials and memorabilia mostly pertain to Myers's career in aviation.

Related materials at the Truman Library include the Papers of Francis W. Williams, who succeeded Myers as President Truman's pilot in 1948.

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