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National WASP WWII Museum
109
National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Lee College
41
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company, Fort Worth
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UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
17
The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum
13
University of North Texas
13
Arlington Historical Society’s Fielder House Museum
5
University of Texas at Arlington Library
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World War II Prisoners of War Oral History Project
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World War II Pearl Harbor Survivors Oral History Project
32
Charlyne Creger Collection
31
Baytown Veteran Oral Histories
30
World War II Pacific Theater Oral History Project
20
The Eagle
19
WASP News
15
Pioneer County City Museum (PCCM) Collection
14
Helen Snapp Collection
13
Henderson (Paul Hill) Collection
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This man is your friend : Canadian : he fights for freedom.
Photograph of a smiling Canadian soldier in uniform and wearing a tam o'shanter.
Date:
1942
Creator:
United States. Office of Facts and Figures.
Object Type:
Poster
System:
The UNT Digital Library
This man is your friend : Ethiopian : he fights for freedom.
Photograph of an Ethiopian soldier in uniform and cap, playing a bugle.
Date:
1942
Creator:
United States. Office of Facts and Figures.
Object Type:
Poster
System:
The UNT Digital Library
This man is your friend : Australian : he fights for freedom.
Photograph of a smiling Australian soldier in uniform and wearing a slouch hat.
Date:
1942
Creator:
United States. Office of Facts and Figures.
Object Type:
Poster
System:
The UNT Digital Library
This man is your friend : Chinese : he fights for freedom.
Photograph of a smiling Chinese soldier in uniform with cap.
Date:
1942
Creator:
United States. Office of Facts and Figures.
Object Type:
Poster
System:
The UNT Digital Library
This man is your friend : Englishman : he fights for freedom.
Photograph of a smiling English soldier in uniform and helmet and carrying a rifle.
Date:
1942
Creator:
United States. Office of Facts and Figures.
Object Type:
Poster
System:
The UNT Digital Library
This man is your friend : Russian : he fights for freedom.
Photograph of a smiling Russian soldier in uniform and helmet, carrying a rifle.
Date:
1942
Creator:
United States. Office of Facts and Figures.
Object Type:
Poster
System:
The UNT Digital Library
This man is your friend : Dutch sailor : he fights for freedom.
Photograph of a Dutch sailor in uniform and cap.
Date:
1942
Creator:
United States. Office of Facts and Figures.
Object Type:
Poster
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Postcard of Cartoon Man in Plane]
Postcard with a cartoon of a man flying a plane and shouting "I'm plane-ly up in the air over you.....why don't you write?" A handwritten note addressed to Clara Aten & Family from Nevin E. Hermsinger says "Dear Friends, I received your card today, sure glad to hear from you, and that you are all well, I am O.K. had a cold, but it is a little better now. Yes, it is getting colder here now. But you can send a little rain this way if you get too much. Ha ha. I hear it is raining a lot there, but I guess it was needed. It will make it late for corn husking. Well, it is bedtime, hope to hear from you soon. Always a friend. Love Nevin."
Date:
November 14, 1943
Creator:
Hermsinger, Nevin E.
Object Type:
Postcard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Your Body in Flight
Manual illustrated with cartoons for quick memorization demonstrating the effects of flight on the human body and the best practices for safe aviation.
Date:
July 20, 1943
Creator:
Aero Medical laboratory
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Your Body in Flight
Textbook titled "Your Body in Flight" or Technical Order No. 00-25-13, created July 20, 1943 by authority of the Commanding General of the Army Air Forces.
Date:
July 20, 1943
Creator:
Army Air Forces
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, October 14, 1943]
Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes discussing being grounded in Camden, AK, repairing her boots, letters, a man from Palm Springs, and her friend Marion. Typed on Hotel Lassen (Wichita) stationary.
Date:
October 14, 1943
Creator:
Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, July 14, 1945]
Letter from Cornelia Yerkes discussing money, a bracelet from her friend Phyllis made from aircraft steel, meeting her friend Marion's brother, working with a Red Cross Clubmobile, preparing to leave Hawaii for a location in the South Pacific (Guam), and some photos.
Date:
July 14, 1945
Creator:
Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, August 21, 1945]
Letter from Cornelia Yerkes discussing a Life Magazine article on Guam, bonds and finances, the end of hostilities with Japan, a visit from an admiral, a friend trying to get in touch, withdrawal of Marines, recent work, indoor flooding, sewing panties from cloth maps, running a "bulletin board of the air," swimming, and her friend Phyllis. Typed on Red Cross stationary.
Date:
August 21, 1945
Creator:
Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Compilation of WASP Songs #1]
A compilation of WASP songs including: The Army Air Corps Song, I'm a Flying Wreck, The Gay Desperado, Rugged but Right, Zoot-Suits and Parachutes, and Do You Have Your Wings?.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
WASP "Songbook"
Compilation of songs including: Zoot Suits and Parachutes, Show Me, I'm a Flying Wreck, I Wanna Be a Miss H.P., Goin' Back to Where I Come From, Rugged but Right, Do You Have Your Wings?, We Were Only Only Fooling, Girls Girls, Army Air Corps Song, and A WASP Trainee Am I.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Pamphlet
System:
The Portal to Texas History
WASP Songbook
A songbook containing songs written for and by Women Airforce Service Pilots. Songs included are: The Army Air Corps Song; WASP Song; Avenger Field by Grace Faver; Avenger Field by Effie Pratt; Song of the 319th; AAF--FTD; Mess Hall Song; My Wild Eyed Trainee; You're in the FTD; Zoot-Suits and Parachutes; We Hate to See You Leave Us; Auld Land Sune to 43-W-5; Songs of Class 44-W-1; Songs of Class 44-W-3; "Oh My Achin' Back"; Songs of Class 44-W-4; Songs of Class 44-W-7; Do You Have Your Wings?; Songs of Class 44-W-8; Songs of Class 44-W-9; Songs of Class 44-W-10; Miscellaneous Songs; and several songs without titles.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
WASP Class 44-W-10
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
WASP Songbook
A songbook containing songs written for and by Women Airforce Service Pilots. Songs included are: The Army Air Corps Song; WASP Song; Avenger Field by Grace Faver; Avenger Field by Effie Pratt; Song of the 319th; AAF--FTD; Mess Hall Song; My Wild Eyed Trainee; You're in the FTD; Zoot-Suits and Parachutes; We Hate to See You Leave Us; Auld Land Sune to 43-W-5; Songs of Class 44-W-1; Songs of Class 44-W-3; "Oh My Achin' Back"; Songs of Class 44-W-4; Songs of Class 44-W-7; Do You Have Your Wings?; Songs of Class 44-W-8; Songs of Class 44-W-9; Songs of Class 44-W-10; Miscellaneous Songs; and several songs without titles.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
WASP Class 44-W-10
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with W. A. Henderson, September 20, 2003
Interview with W. A. (Bill) Henderson, a pilot during World War II. He discusses his time as a bombardier and navigator on a B-24 in the China-Burma-India Theater. His crew hit the bridge over River Kwai (Mae Klong) while making bombing runs along the Burma Railway and also flew runs to supply gasoline to various bases in China, India and Burma. He relates anecdotes about the food and living quarters on the bases and the time he saved his co-pilot's life. He helped his co-pilot land the plane after a bullet tore through the plane's nose wheel and injured the man's leg.
Date:
September 20, 2003
Creator:
Johnson, Kep & Henderson, W. A.
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Mike Jacobs, November 26, 1989
Interview with Mike Jacobs, a Holocaust survivor from Konin, Poland. Jacobs discusses his family background and growing up in Konin's Jewish community, the growth of antisemitism, attending an integrated school, the German invasion and occupation, moving to the ghetto and life inside, collaborators and Jewish police, hostages, moving to a smaller ghetto, losing his family to Treblinka, working with Polish partisans, escaping the ghetto and working from Ostrowiec concentration camp, engaging in sabotage, life in the camp, transfer to Birkenau, the gas chambers, the attempted Auschwitz-Birkenau uprising, survival there, being evacuated to Vienna, labor in an aircraft factory, liberation, and life afterwards.
Date:
November 26, 1989
Creator:
Rosen, Keith & Jacobs, Mike
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Alfred Czerner, January 16, 1990
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Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Interview with Alfred Czerner, a Army WWII veteran and German-Jewish expatriate from Frankfurt-am-Main. Czerner discusses growing up in the crises of the Weimar Republic, politics at the time, his parents' background, the Jewish community in Frankfurt and Jewish identity, his father's unemployment after the rise of the Nazis, fleeing Germany and moving to Brooklyn in 1938, news of concentration camps, work in New York, attending school and perfecting his English, becoming an Army intelligence officer, service at Camp Ritchie with Henry Kissinger and meeting Eleanor Roosevelt, transfer to Europe and service with the 78th Infantry Division, witnessing Buchwenwald, service in Berlin postwar and operations carried out there, meeting and marrying his wife, and reflections on the Holocaust.
Date:
January 16, 1990
Creator:
Rosen, Keith & Czerner, Alfred
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Leon F. Painter, June 8, 1974
Interview with Leon F. Painter, U.S. Marine Corps WWII veteran, about his background and experiences at the Marine Barracks between Pearl Harbor and Hickam Field during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date:
June 8, 1974
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Painter, Leon F.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Arthur Dodge Jr., January 8, 1971
Interview with Arthur B. Dodge, Jr., a US Army WWII veteran from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Dodge recounts his service in M Company, 350th Infantry Regiment, 88th Infantry Division, which landed in Morocco and moved through Algeria in late-1943, before landing in Italy, where his unit took up position on the Cassino-Rapido-Garigliano front in March, 1944. Dodge describes prolonged skirmishing with German forces near Tremesuoli, Lazio, the breakout from Cassino, advancing into northern Italy, and finishing the war in the Po Valley.
Date:
January 8, 1971
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Dodge Jr., Arthur B.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Earnest A. Cochran, December 20, 1974
Interview with Earnest Cochran, U.S. Navy WWII veteran, about his experiences at Ford Island Naval Air Station with VP-2 during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date:
December 20, 1974
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Cochran, Earnest A.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Charlyne Creger: An Oral History
Transcript of and oral history interview of Charlyne Creger conducted by interviewer, Dawn Letson. They discuss Creger's family history, her life growing up in Oklahoma, and her life and career after entering and graduating the Women Airforce Service Pilots. An index of subjects discussed is listed at the end of the interview.
Date:
May 26, 1988
Creator:
Letson, Dawn & Creger, Charlyne
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History