Items
Below are 50 random items from across all online collections.
Sun and News Published 1994
Sun and News Published 1994. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing.

Nashville News Published 1941
Nashville News Published 1941. PDFs were created from microfilm and may have readability issues. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing.

Library History Timeline
A chronological list of key dates in the history of the Hastings Public Library from 1893 through 2021.

Hastings High School Commencement Program, 1939
Hastings High School Commencement Program, James is listed on page 3 under College Courses.

Hastings Banner Published 1947
Hastings Banner Published 1947. PDFs were created from microfilm and may have readability issues. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing. Note…

Hastings Banner Published 2006
Hastings Banner Published 2006. PDFs were created from microfilm and may have readability issues. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing. Note…

Hastings Banner Published 1977
Hastings Banner Published 1977. PDFs were created from microfilm and may have readability issues. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing. Note…

List of Hastings, Michigan veterans who died in World War II
List of Hastings, Michigan veterans who died in World War II.

Letter from James in Chicago, IL to his parents, Early February 1942
Letter from James in Chicago, IL to his parents.

Letter from James in Chicago, IL to his father, 1941-11-11
Letter from James in Chicago, IL to his father.

Maple Valley News Published 2001
Maple Valley News Published 2001. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing.

Account written by Jim Dibble of September 9, 1943 when his uncle James was shot down in Italy
Account written by Jim Dibble of September 9, 1943 when his uncle James was shot down in Italy.

Sun and News Published 1995
Sun and News Published 1995. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing.

Hastings Banner Published 1973
Hastings Banner Published 1973. PDFs were created from microfilm and may have readability issues. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing. Note…

Hastings Banner Published 1936
Hastings Banner Published 1936. PDFs were created from microfilm and may have readability issues. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing. Note…

Hastings Banner Published 1999
Hastings Banner Published 1999. PDFs were created from microfilm and may have readability issues. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing. Note…

Maple Valley News Published 1984
Maple Valley News Published 1984. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing.

Newspaper article about James Dibble and the Distinguished Flying Cross
Newspaper article about James Dibble and the Distinguished Flying Cross. This appeared in Skywrighter, the base newspaper for Wright-Patterson Air…

Mission Report for the 94th Fighter Squadron, 1st Fighter Group, August 7, 1943
Mission Report for the 94th Fighter Squadron, 1st Fighter Group, August 7, 1943.

Hastings Banner Published 1896
Hastings Banner Published 1896. PDFs were created from microfilm and may have readability issues. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing. Note…

Letter fragment from James in North Africa to his wife Maxine (Micky), 1943-06-04
Letter fragment from James in North Africa to his wife Maxine (Micky).

Young James Dibble at Barlow Lake, age 2 or so.
Young James Dibble at Barlow Lake, age 2 or so.

Bill Dibble, James' younger brother, at the crash site
Bill Dibble, James' younger brother, at the crash site.

Letter from James in North Africa to his parents, 1943-03-23
Letter from James in North Africa to his parents.

Bull Diaries Index Th-Zu
Bull Diaries Index, Listed by Last Name Alphabetically Th-Zu

James and Maxine Dibble after he got his wings
James and Maxine Dibble after he got his wings.

Nashville News Published 1951
Nashville News Published 1951. PDFs were created from microfilm and may have readability issues. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing.

Postcard from James in Chicago, IL to his mother, 1941-11-11
Letter from James in Chicago, IL to his mother.

Nashville News Published 1959
Nashville News Published 1959. PDFs were created from microfilm and may have readability issues. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing.

Copy of a letter from Raymond Schultz to Jim Dibble talking about James and their friendship in 1943
Copy of a letter from Raymond Schultz to Jim Dibble talking about James and their friendship in 1943.

Hastings Banner Published 2018
Hastings Banner Published 2018. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing. Note some newspaper files are very large and may take some time to…

Account by James Dibble after his plane was badly damaged and lost an engine on a mission in Italy, August 9, 1943
Account by James Dibble after his plane was badly damaged and lost an engine on a mission in Italy, August 9, 1943. Introduction by Jim Dibble,…

Translated extract from a German book with observations from their perspective of the August 30, 1943 air battle.
Translated extract from a German book with observations from their perspective of the August 30, 1943 air battle. Unknown translator. Citation: Dr.…

Hastings Banner Published 1862
Hastings Banner Published 1862. PDFs were created from microfilm and may have readability issues. Specific issues may be incomplete or…

Pilot Capt. Charlie McCann flying his P-38 "Lady Beverly"
Pilot Capt. Charlie McCann flying his P-38 "Lady Beverly"

Sun and News Published 2002
Sun and News Published 2002. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing.

Jim Dibble holding uncle James' posthumous Distinguished Flying Cross
Jim Dibble holding uncle James' posthumous Distinguished Flying Cross at the Dayton Airforce Museum.

Bull Diaries Index Hu-Mc
Bull Diaries Index, Listed by Last Name Alphabetically Hu-Mc

Hastings Public Library's Home as of 2007
The front facade of the current Hastings Public Library at 227 East State Street, Hastings, MI.

Hastings Banner Published 1976
Hastings Banner Published 1976. PDFs were created from microfilm and may have readability issues. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing. Note…

Hastings Banner Published 1903
Hastings Banner Published 1903. PDFs were created from microfilm and may have readability issues. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing. Note…

Hastings Banner Published 1892
Hastings Banner Published 1892. PDFs were created from microfilm and may have readability issues. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing. Note…

Sun and News Published 2015
Sun and News Published 2015. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing.

The story of August 30, 1943, titled "The Day of Armageddon" by Jim Dibble; an account of the air battle that earned his uncle James Dibble the Distinguished Flying Cross
The story of August 30, 1943, titled "The Day of Armageddon" by Jim Dibble; an account of the air battle that earned his uncle James Dibble the…

Statement from James Dibble about Lt. Rigney, shot down on August 30, 1943
Statement from James Dibble about Lt. Rigney, shot down on August 30, 1943.

Bull Diaries Book 11
Bull Diaries Book 11

Nashville News Published 1949
Nashville News Published 1949. PDFs were created from microfilm and may have readability issues. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing.

Maple Valley News Published 2011
Maple Valley News Published2011. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing.

Librarian Florence Wilson and Board President Mrs. Richard Groos
Photograph of head librarian Florence Wilson and Board President Ethel Groos looking at books.

Nashville News Published 1953
Nashville News Published 1953. PDFs were created from microfilm and may have readability issues. Specific issues may be incomplete or missing.