History of Northwestern Aeronautical Corporation
Statewide Historic and Cultural Grants. $5,250,000 the first year and $5,250,000 the second year are for history programs and projects operated or conducted by or through local, county, regional, or other historical or cultural organizations; or for activities to preserve significant historic and cultural resources.
The goal of this project was to interview, record on video, and transcribe on paper the recollections and information of three persons who had either personal knowledge of or had considerable knowledge of the building of gliders at Wold-Chamberlain Airport (now Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport) and at the Villaume Box & Lumber Company in St. Paul during World War II. The Villaume Company was a primary subcontractor of the Northwestern Aeronautical Corporation (NAC) of St. Paul, which was the local corporation that had multiple contracts from the U.S. War Department to build CG-4A combat gliders in the Twin Cities during the war. This goal was achieved.
Two of the interviewees were an elderly brother and sister, Charles Meyerding and Christine Linsmayer, who had lived on the bluff above the Mississippi River overlooking the Villaume Company plant on St. Paul