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[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, December 31, 1943]
Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes discussing traveling to Wichita, being grounded by a snowstorm, picking up Cessnas for delivery, trying to find a Parker 51 pen, food, and recent correspondence. Written on 5th Ferrying Group stationary.
Date:
December 31, 1943
Creator:
Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, May 31, 1945?]
Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, somewhere overseas (possibly Hawaii) discussing her crowded sleeping accommodations at a hotel, recreating, a particularly good restaurant, music, going to a dance, and wondering where she will be sent next. Typed on American Red Cross stationary.
Date:
1945-05-31?
Creator:
Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, October 31, 1943]
Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes discussing getting orders, flying to and staying in Jackson, MS, and recent correspondence.
Date:
October 31, 1943
Creator:
Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, October 31, 1944]
Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes discussing receiving a pack of cigarettes, flying a fighter from Jackson, MS, to Raleigh and Newark, seeing a show and getting dinner, flying on an airliner at night, picking up a plane from Long Beach, news about her friend Marion, flying in a B-24, and happening to meet an Air Corps private who knew of her through a mutual acquaintance.
Date:
October 31, 1944
Creator:
Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to Frances Yerkes, July 31, 1944]
Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes to her mother discussing the remainder of her flight training, a dentist visit, barracks living, watching planes at night, waiting to hear where she will transfer to, her breakfast, correspondence, and her mother's health.
Date:
July 31, 1943
Creator:
Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from James D. Palmer to Cornelia Yerkes, May 31, 1944]
Letter from James Palmer to Cornelia Yerkes discussing a recent note from her and her time flying as a WASP.
Date:
May 31, 1944
Creator:
Palmer, James D.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Cornelia Yerkes]
Photograph of WASP Cornelia Yerkes Colby in her service uniform.
Date:
March 31, 1944
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History