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Charlyne Creger Collection
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National WASP WWII Museum Collection
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[Program: WASP Honor Ceremony]
Program for a ceremony honoring Women Airforce Service Pilots service in World War II.
Date:
2005
Creator:
Air Force ROTC Detachment 330
Object Type:
Pamphlet
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[WASP Activity Registration Form]
Photocopy of Eleanor Brown's completed activity registration form for the 2004 WASP reunion.
Date:
2004~
Creator:
Armed Forces Reunions, Inc.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Gilberto S. Trevino, February 18, 2005
Interview with Gilberto S. Trevino, a U. S. Marine during World War II. He attended Texas A&M before serving in the Marine Corps. He was in the 28th Replacement Battalion when he was assigned to the 3d Marine Division and deployed to Iwo Jima. He discusses his first impressions of landing on the island. He describes the constructed Japanese defenses on the island and the use of Japanese Nisei interpreters to convince defenders to surrender. He returned to Texas A&M where he was in the Corps of Cadets (ROTC) and accepted his commission in the Army in time to serve in Korea. He eventually earned his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from Texas A&M and a doctorate degree in pathology from Michigan State University. He retired from service in 1976 with the rank of colonel.
Date:
February 18, 2005
Creator:
Atkinson, Scott & Trevino, Gilberto S.
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: Long-Due Recognition]
Newspaper clipping of part of an article about WASP member Maxine Flournoy. The article includes two photographs of Flournoy. On the back of the clipping are other articles, about popular culture and politics.
Date:
[2007..]
Creator:
Baird, Mike
Object Type:
Clipping
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: Medal]
Newspaper clipping of part of an article about Maxine Flournoy and her experience flying for the WASP program in WWII. The article includes a photograph of Flournoy giving two "thumbs-up" from the cockpit of a small plane. There are other, smaller articles on the back of the clipping.
Date:
[2007..]
Creator:
Baird, Mike
Object Type:
Clipping
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: Women in the Wings]
Clipping from Baylor Magazine discussing the history of the Women Airforce Service Pilots and the project of one WASP, Deanie Parrish, and her daughter, Nancy Parrish, to compile digital scrapbooks and oral histories from the WASP through the Wings Across America organization.
Date:
October 2009
Creator:
Baylor Magazine
Object Type:
Clipping
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Deliverance! It has Come!: In The Philippines 1942-1945, Diary
Annotated transcription of the diary of Herman Knight Beaber documenting his years as a missionary in the Philippines and his internment in Los Banos as an Enemy Alien, a civilian prisoner of the Japanese.
Date:
2001
Creator:
Beaber, John S.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: 'Quiet zones' sounds like a good proposal]
Newspaper clipping of an opinion article about a proposal to create "quiet zones" in Victoria, Texas. On the back of the clipping is part of a photo of a child looking up.
Date:
March 22, 2006
Creator:
Bishop, Jim
Object Type:
Clipping
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Annie May Web, March 24, 2001
Interview with Annie (Amy) May Webb discussing her husband's service and her experiences on the homefront during World War II. She describes delivering word of the birth of their daughter to her husband while he was aboard the USS Bennington serving with VMF-112.
Date:
March 24, 2001
Creator:
Bloomfield, Vivian & Webb, Annie May
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Robert Edward Harris, April 26, 2002
Interview with Robert Edward Harris, a veteran of World War II, serving in India at the time. Harris answers questions relating to his training, duties, and activities while over in India towards the end of the war; Harrs also answers questions concerning his feelings towards the war and his enemies.
Date:
May 13, 2003
Creator:
Bottoms, Aaron & Harris, Robert Edward
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Robert Edward Harris, April 26, 2002
Interview with Robert Edward Harris, a veteran of World War II, serving in India at the time. Harris answers questions relating to his training, duties, and activities while over in India towards the end of the war; Harrs also answers questions concerning his feelings towards the war and his enemies.
Date:
April 26, 2002
Creator:
Bottoms, Aaron & Harris, Robert Edward
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Report on the Feasability of Hiring an Executive Director]
Report on the feasibility of hiring an executive director to manage the WASP's administrative business, presented by the Ad Hoc Committee to the WASP Board of Directors on March 25, 2006.
Date:
March 25, 2006
Creator:
Bright, Nell
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with James Spears, April 5, 2001
Interview with James Spears, an ammunition worker on the home front during WWII. He describes the war as he saw it from the home front.
Date:
December 3, 2003
Creator:
Brosh, Kate & Spears, James
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with James Spears, April 5, 2001
Interview with James Spears, an ammunition worker on the home front during WWII. He describes the war as he saw it from the home front.
Date:
April 5, 2001
Creator:
Brosh, Kate & Spears, James
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Lynn A. Seamans, March 30, 2002
Interview with Lynn A. Seamans, a naval reservist in the US Navy during WWII and the Korean War. He answers questions about his time in the military and his experience abroad.
Date:
May 12, 2004
Creator:
Brown, C. & Seamans, Lynn A.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Lynn A. Seamans, March 30, 2002
Interview with Lynn A. Seamans, a naval reservist in the US Navy during WWII and the Korean War. He answers questions about his time in the military and his experience abroad.
Date:
May 12, 2004
Creator:
Brown, C. & Seamans, Lynn A.
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Handwritten List of Email Addresses]
Handwritten list of email addresses and other contact information for individuals affiliated with the WASP organization.
Date:
2004~
Creator:
Brown, Eleanor McLernon
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Miltary History of Eleanor McLernon Brown]
Document containing a biography of Eleanor Brown, including details of her early life, her interest in aviation, and her service in the WASP organization. The first page is flyer about the Victoria Schools Veterans Interview Project, which includes a list of potential interview topics.
Date:
November 7, 2001
Creator:
Brown, Eleanor McLernon
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Region 2 Report
Report detailing Eleanor Brown's activities as the Director of Region 2 from October 2004 through April 2005.
Date:
April 2, 2005
Creator:
Brown, Eleanor McLernon
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wings Across America Release Agreement
Release agreement form signed by Eleanor McLernon Brown in April of 2000 to be interviewed by Wings Across America. The agreement contains two parts, Part I: WASP Release for the interview, and Part II: Interviewer Agreement.
Date:
April 17, 2000
Creator:
Brown, Eleanor McLernon
Object Type:
Legal Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Norman Apelt, September 23, 2001
Interview with with Norman Apelt, an airplane mechanic during World War II. He discusses his service in the US Army Air Corps as an airplane mechanic in Pampa, Texas. After the war ended, Apelt was assigned duty in occupied Japan.
Date:
September 23, 2001
Creator:
Bryk, Clarence & Apelt, Norman
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Lowell Dean Cox, February 1, 2005
Interview with Lowell Dean Cox, a serviceman in the U. S. Navy during World War II. He discusses joining the Navy and serving aboard the USS Indianapolis (CA-35). He was on board when the cruiser was attacked by a Japanese submarine and survived for five days in the water before being rescued.
Date:
February 1, 2005
Creator:
Bryk, Clarence & Cox, Lowell Dean
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with E. R. Dolinar, April 5, 2003
Interview with E.R. (Ed) Dolinar, a serviceman with the U. S. Navy during World War II. He discusses going to boot camp, torpedo school and submarine school. He was on the SSN Stingray as a torpedo crewman that offloaded supplies and guerillas in the Philippines. It picked up stranded Japanese sailors and transported them to Australia. The Stingray was then decomissioned. He was then part of a crew that studied and stripped captured German submarines, and he discusses the differences between the U-boats and the US submarines. He also discusses the Bolomen, Filipino guerillas who fought the Japanese during the occupation. He also talks briefly about his experience of being hit with depth charges and gives his opinions on General MacArthur and President Truman.
Date:
April 5, 2003
Creator:
Bryk, Clarence & Dolinar, E. R.
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Earl Smyth, Jr., October 20, 2003
Interview with Earl Smyth, Jr., a serviceman during World War II. He discusses his time aboard the USS Saratoga at the Battle of Midway and at Guadalcanal, where the ship sustained two torpedo attacks. He saw Pearl Harbor three days after the attack.
Date:
October 20, 2003
Creator:
Bryk, Clarence & Smyth, Earl, Jr.
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History