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Amelia Earhart and Paul Mantz, Amelia Earhart's technical advisor, on Earhart's plane in Hawaii in1937. -
Everett Leavins and a group of his buddies on a beach in Hawaii in the 1930s. -
President Franklin Roosevelt receiving a bowl of fruit in 1934 on a visit to the Territory of Hawaii. -
U.S. Navy Flight P2Y-1 ground crew towing a flying boat, a type of seaplane, through the water in Hawaii in January, 1934. The flight was from San Francisco to Pearl Harbor. -
Lady Southern Cross with Charles Edward Kingsford-Smith (front) and P.G Taylor (back) in the cockpits on a stop-over in Hawaii on its first Australia to U.S. flight in 1934. -
Witteman-Lewis XNBL Barling Bomber Army Tri-Plane on the ground in Hawaii in the early 1930s. -
Interior of the hangar on the Japanese I-401 submarine at Pearl Harbor in 1946. U.S. personnel can be seen inside posed in the entry to the hangar. -
Everett Leavins and another aircraft mechanic standing under lifting equipment in front of a plane where an engine will be installed on the wing. Leavins is on the right taking the cover off the engine and the mechanic on the left is holding an ax as if to destroy the engine. -
Lockheed C-23 military airplane with a pilot and crewman on ground covered with scattered snow and ice in an unknown location in the 1930s. Airport buildings can be seen in the background. -
Everett Leavins and five other soldiers sitting around a volcanic rock formation called Little Beggar Spatter Cone in Hawaii in the 1930s. -
(Left) Soldier on a mountainside in Hawaii in the 1930s. (Center) Everett Leavins with two buddies at a beach, Hawaii, 1930s. (Right) Everett Leavins and another soldier with a horse at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, circa 1928-1931 (right) -
Four engine Lockheed Constellation passenger airplane belonging to Pan American Airlines on the ground in Hawaii in the late 1940s. The name of the airplane, "Clipper Resolute, " is painted on the fuselage under the cockpit.
The Everett Leavins Photographs Collection
Everett Leavins was born in 1904 on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. He grew up in the Bon Secour area near Mobile, Alabama. Leavins had very little formal education. When he left home after a quarrel with his father, he joined the U.S. Army briefly from 1923-1926. He re-enlisted in June 1928 and was stationed in the 6th Cavalry at Fort Oglethorpe in Tennessee until June 1931. Leavins was then transferred to Luke Field, an airbase at Pearl Harbor in the Territory of Hawaii, where he served until 1938 as an aircraft mechanic. After his enlistment ended, Leavins continued to serve as a civilian aircraft mechanic with the U.S. Air Force until 1956. Most of that time was spent in Hawaii. Leavins transferred to California in the early 1950s where he died in 1962. During his adult life, Leavins was an avid amateur photographer and collector of photographs. His collection of photographs donated by his nephew focuses mainly on military life in the 1920s and 1930s.
