[Letter from Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Dryer to Cecelia McKie - June 16, 1943] (open access)

[Letter from Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Dryer to Cecelia McKie - June 16, 1943]

Letter sent from Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Dryer to Cecelia McKie thanking her for the message and stating their daughter, Marian Dryer Newsom, is interned with Elsie Luckman. Marian had been on her way to Manila on December 1st, 1941, and both girls were caught there by the war. Envelope addressed to Mrs. W. L. McKie, Sacramento, California from Mrs. Mabel Dryer, Wichita, Kansas.
Date: June 16, 1943
Creator: Dryer, R. L. & Dryer, Mrs. R. L.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Members of the Women's Auxiliary Corps Fishing]

Photograph of WAC members fishing with poles on a small boat and from a dock in Fort Myers, Florida. On the left stand two women on the curved wooden dock with fishing poles, the first one in a white bathing suit and the other in full uniform. On the right in a small boat sits a woman in a black bathing suit and no fishing pole and to her right sit two women in uniform with fishing poles.
Date: 1943~
Creator: United States. Army Air Forces
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Members of the Women's Auxiliary Corps Riding Bicycles]

Photograph of Four members of Women's Auxiliary Corps riding bicycles and waving to two other members of the WAC. On the left stand the two WAC members not on bikes holding their hands out in front of them in a wave, on the right are the four women on bicycles waving and behind them are large palm trees and a bridge.
Date: 1943~
Creator: United States. Army Air Forces
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Members of the Women's Auxiliary Corps Hanging Out by a Pool]

Photograph of members of the Women's Auxiliary Corps and some male soldiers in and standing next to pool in Florida. On the right side of the image stand a cluster of 3 women in the pool, two women standing on the ladder out the pool and a woman in a swim cap crouching down outside the pool by the ladder. Behind where the pool ladder is there are two women standing in full uniform. There are several men and women milling about in the background amongst the palm trees.
Date: 1943~
Creator: United States. Army Air Forces
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Members of the Women's Auxiliary Corps Peeling Potatoes]

Photograph of three unidentified members of the Women's Auxiliary Corps for Army Air Forces sitting on the wooden porch of a building peeling potatoes over two metal buckets at their feet.
Date: 1943~
Creator: United States. Army Air Forces
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Members of the Women's Auxiliary Corps Moving a Boat]

Photograph of seven unidentified members of the Women's Auxiliary Corps moving a Dinghy into the water on Miami beach. There are three women on either side of the boat in swimsuits pushing the boat while a woman in full uniform standing above them pointing at the boat.
Date: 1943~
Creator: United States. Army Air Forces
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History