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[Colorized Picture of Gayle Snell]

Photograph of WASP Gayle Snell that has been colorized and edited to feature a Stearman biplane and air observation tower in the background. A WASP patch has been added to her jacket.
Date: [1944..]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[WASP photobook] (open access)

[WASP photobook]

A photobook with a leather bind documenting life and training for the WASPs at Avenger Field during 1943-44. It also includes individual portraits and opens with a Christmas greeting.
Date: 1944-12?
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Special Orders Number 99, Extract 1] (open access)

[Special Orders Number 99, Extract 1]

Special orders extract authorizing a list of Women Airforce Service Pilots to fly military aircraft.
Date: November 6, 1944
Creator: 2536D Army Air Forces Base Unit
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Portrait of Eleanor Brown]

Photograph of WASP Eleanor "Mickey" Brown in a flight cap with goggles and jacket. On the back is written "Class 44-W-9, June 21, 1944, Avenger Field, Mickey McLernon"
Date: June 21, 1944
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Gayle Snell earnings statement] (open access)

[Gayle Snell earnings statement]

Statement of earnings and deductions for WASP Gayle Snell for the pay period ending on May 31, 1944. She was paid $134.40.
Date: May 31, 1944
Creator: United States. War Department.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

[WASP Trainee with Stearman Cockpit]

Photograph of a WASP trainee of class W-44-7 standing on the wing of a Stearman trainer by the cockpit. She is wearing her flight cap with goggles and a parachute.
Date: July 15, 1944
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[General Hap Arnold Address in Sweetwater, Texas, December 7, 1944] (open access)

[General Hap Arnold Address in Sweetwater, Texas, December 7, 1944]

Text of a speech given by General Hap Arnold to the WASP at Avenger Field in Sweetwater, Texas, just days before their deactivation. Arnold thanks and commends the women pilots for their service and offers encouragement for their futures.
Date: December 7, 1944
Creator: Arnold, Henry Harley (Hap)
Object Type: Script
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Transfer and promotion for Gayle Snell] (open access)

[Transfer and promotion for Gayle Snell]

USAAF order indicating Gayle Snell's promotion from trainee to pilot, raising her pay, and rebasing her from Avenger Field to Independence Field.
Date: November 7, 1944
Creator: Taylor, C. O.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Portrait of Gayle Snell]

Photograph portrait of Women Airforce Service Pilot Gaye Snell, smiling in her flying cap and jacket. In the bottom write is an autograph reading: "Lots of luck[,] Gayle"
Date: June 1944
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Herman Fuchs with Biplane]

Photograph of instructor pilot Herman F. Fuchs standing in a flight suit on the starboard side of a biplane.
Date: 1944
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[WASP with Puppy]

Photograph of a WASP trainee in civilian clothes holding a puppy. She is standing between barracks at Avenger Field.
Date: 1944
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Journal of the Northwest Texas Annual Conference, the Methodist Church: 1944 (open access)

Journal of the Northwest Texas Annual Conference, the Methodist Church: 1944

Journal of the North Texas Conference of the Methodist Church, including the proceedings of the annual conference, committee reports, updates to conference leadership and contact information, and other related information. Index starts on page 132.
Date: 1944
Creator: Methodist Church (U.S.). Northwest Texas Conference.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History

[WASP on AT-6C]

Photograph of a smiling WASP standing in a flight suit on the port wing of a AT-6C trainer.
Date: 1944
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History