- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- James Dickey, 1940s
- Publisher:
- James Dickey papers, Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University.
- Date of Original:
- 1940/1949
- Subject:
- Airmen--Georgia--Atlanta
Men--Georgia--Atlanta
Dwellings--Georgia--Atlanta
Poets, American--Georgia--Atlanta
Authors, American--Georgia--Atlanta
Novelists, American--Georgia--Atlanta
Dickey, James - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Dickey joined the Army Air Corps in 1942. Although he spent thirteen months training to be a bomber pilot, he failed flight school and became a navigator instead. He joined the 418th Night Fighter Squadron in the Philippines in 1945, subsequently flying missions in Okinawa and Japan.
Photograph of poet James Dickey wearing his Army Air Corps uniform. He sits on the lawn in front of a brick home. He smiles widely. Dickey joined the Army Air Corps in 1942. Dickey ranks, along with Conrad Aiken, as one of the two most important Georgia poets in the twentieth century. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/james-dickey-1923-1997/m-534/
- Rights Holder:
- Courtesy of Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University
Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University - Original Collection:
- http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/james-dickey-1923-1997
Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia
James Dickey Papers - Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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