Department of the Air Force Historical Research Agency
Motto
"Preserving the Past. Informing the Present and Future."
Mission
The Air Force Historical Research Agency (AFHRA) preserves Department of the Air Force (DAF) history and provides information and analyses to support official customers and the general public in a variety of venues and formats. The AFHRA administers the lineage, heritage, and emblems of DAF organizations; advises manpower and organization offices at Headquarters, United States Air Force ( HQ USAF), HQ, United States Space Force (USSF), Major Commands, Direct Reporting Units, and Field Operating Agencies on the selection of units and establishments to be activated and other organizational matters; supports contingency operations; prepares reference works; conducts an oral history program; operates an information system to index and retrieve historical data; and provides field support to Air Force History and Museums Program personnel. The AFHRA will provide the same level of support to both the USAF and the USSF.
Address
600 Chennault CircleMaxwell AFB, AL 36112
Website
www.dafhistory.af.mil
Entrance to the Air Force Historical Research Agency (U.S. Air Force Photo by Mr. Nicholas Rich)
TheAir Force Historical Research Agency (AFHRA) the Department of the Air Force's central repository for physical and digital documentation.[1] The archivists and historians who work at AFHRA collect, manage, and preserve the archival collections of the United States Air Force (USAF) and United States Space Force (USSF).[2] The Agency's collection began duringWorld War II inWashington, D.C., and moved in 1949 toMaxwell Air Force Base, the site ofAir University, to provideresearch facilities forprofessionalmilitary education students, thefaculty, visitingscholars, and thegeneral public.[3]
The U.S Air Force History Office in Bolling Air Force Base Building 5681 in Washington, D.C., houses microfilm copies of archival materials in the United States Air Force Historical Research Center at Maxwell Air Force Base.[4]
Published guides of the collection include theAir Force Historical Archives Document Classification Guide (1971),Personal Papers in the USAF Historical Research Center compiled by Richard E. Morse and Thomas C. Lobenstein (1980),U.S. Air Force Oral History Catalog (1982), and theUnited States Air Force History: A Guide to Documentary Sources.[4]
METEOROLOGICAL SATELLITE PROGRAM, STUDY OF METEOROLOGY AFFECTING ALMOST EVERY PHASE OF AIR FORCE OPERATIONS, 1961.
THIRTEENTH AIR FORCE, history of participation in Project 119-L, which provided for a worldwide meteorological survey between 1 November 1955 and 1 April 1956
^Catherine D. Scott, ed., Aeronautics and Space Flight Collections (1985) New York: Hayworth Press, “United States Air Force Historical Collection” Lloyd H. Cornett, Jr., contributing author
