Contributed by Bangor Public Library
Description
Chaplain Gordon poses with the "Flying Torah" and an unidentified pilot in front of an OA-10 aircraft, demonstrating how the Torah was boxed and transported.
A loan from the Beth Israel Synagogue in Bangor, the "Flying Torah" traveled with Captain Harold H. Gordon, Jewish chaplain for the North Atlantic Division, Air Transport Command.
About This Item
- Title: Captain Gordon, pilot, and 'Flying Torah,' Bangor, 1945
- Creator: U.S. Army Signal Section, Dow Field
- Creation Date: 1945
- Subject Date: 1945
- Location: Bangor, Penobscot County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 10.5 cm x 12.5 cm
- Collection: Dow Field Collection
- Object Type: Image
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- Jewish art and symbolism
- World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects
- Torah scrolls
- Loans
- Jews--United States
- Military chaplains
- World War, 1939-1945--Chaplains
- United States. Air Force--Chaplains
- World War, 1939-1945--Religious aspects
- World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish
- Airplanes--Maine--Bangor
- Dow Air Force Base (Me.)
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- United States. Air Force. Air Transport Command
- United States. Air Force--Airmen
- Beth Israel Synagogue (Bangor, Me.)
- Magen David
- Containers--Maine--Bangor
- Air pilots--Maine--Bangor
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