MILITARYCLAIMS.US · HISTORY & COLLECTIONS
History & Collections
Historical context for people, units, ships, aircraft, operations, and source collections—while keeping collective history distinct from individual proof.
FOUNDING HONOREE
Jaye Michael Sullivan
The founding collection honors Jaye Michael Sullivan and uses his surviving Navy records to demonstrate the site’s central research rule: connect the person to the unit, ship, operation, and later record only where the evidence supports the connection.
Jaye Michael Sullivan → Fighting Squadron Thirteen → USS Franklin (CV-13) →
Founding collections
- Jaye Sullivan Collection
The founding individual record used to test the Military Life Record system: identity, named duties, command appointments, reported flight scores, and unresolved career questions. - Fighting Squadron Thirteen
Unit formation, the 1944 combat tour, reformation in 1945, and primary records that can be connected to named personnel only when the evidence supports the connection. - USS Franklin (CV-13)
Ship history, deck-log pathways, air-group chronology, and the required distinction between its 1944 and later 1945 deployments.
Collection rule: context is not personal proof
A unit’s participation does not establish the presence or conduct of every member. A ship history does not prove an individual’s presence on every date. An aircraft or mission history does not establish a named person’s sortie without connecting evidence. Collections provide context; individual propositions still require the appropriate personnel, orders, roster, log, flight, medical, pay, claim, or personal record.
Expansion path
Future collections can be organized by aircraft, units, ships, operations, people, and source sets. They should reuse the same Source Record and evidence-status system rather than create a second catalog.
