[Clipping: 'Our Daring Young Women'] (open access)

[Clipping: 'Our Daring Young Women']

Clipping of a magazine article about WWII WASP serving as role models for female pilots in the U.S. Air Force. The article includes photographs of some of the WASP pilots.
Date: November 1984
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: WASPs Win 33 Year Battle For Vet Status] (open access)

[Clipping: WASPs Win 33 Year Battle For Vet Status]

Photocopy of a newspaper clipping titled "WASPs Win 33 Year Battle For Vet Status" from The Stars and Stripes. It includes an article about the WASP finally being able to receive veteran benefits from the government.
Date: November 10, 1977
Creator: Arnold, William Bruce
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: WASPs Await President's Signature] (open access)

[Clipping: WASPs Await President's Signature]

Newspaper clipping of Patricia Collins Hughes' column discussing the recent passage of legislation that granted veterans' status to the WASP. Hughes thanks several individuals and organizations who supported the WASP along the way. This clipping also includes a poem by Ann Darr and the continuation of an article on the WASP from the front page.
Date: November 10, 1977
Creator: Hughes, Patricia Collins
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: "Ferry Pilot"] (open access)

[Clipping: "Ferry Pilot"]

Magazine clipping with a photograph of Nancy Batson on one side and an advertisement for Kollsman Aircraft Instruments. Text on the front side reads: " FERRY PILOT: All smiles over her appointment as Florida's first WAFS (Woman's Auxiliary Ferry Squadron) member, Nancy Batson, former flight instructor at Embry-Riddle, Miami, prepares to take off. A native of Alabama where she learned to fly at the U. of A., Tuscaloosa, Nancy at 22 intends to make flying her career. She is convinced that the longer the war continues women will assume more and more wartime responsibility."
Date: November 1942
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History