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[Flight Notes Landmarks] (open access)

[Flight Notes Landmarks]

Handwritten pencil notes of landmarks for flights between Sweetwater and Brownwood, and Brownwood and Wichita Falls.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Flight Notes Mineral Wells to Brownwood] (open access)

[Flight Notes Mineral Wells to Brownwood]

Handwritten travel notes for flying between several Texas towns, with landmarks and distances between them.
Date: 194X
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Homer Petross in Front of His Home]

Photograph of Homer Petross standing in front of his home in Brownwood, Texas. He is wearing a khaki U.S. Army uniform, garrison cap, and spectacles. His house is lightly colored horizontal clapboard with vertical slats and brick near the bottom.
Date: [1942..1945]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Homer Petross Posing for a Portrait]

Photograph of Homer Petross sitting for a portrait. The smiling man is wearing a dress uniform, garrison cap, wire-rimmed glasses, and a cross over his left chest.
Date: [1943..1945]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Loading Vehicles at Camp Bowie]

Photograph of a rail loading crew loading vehicles onto a train at Camp Bowie.
Date: 1944
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Loading Vehicles onto Rail Cars]

Photograph of soldiers loading a half-track and a tank onto rail cars at Camp Bowie.
Date: 1944
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Prisoners, Not Criminals: How Captured German Soldiers Survived World War II in Central Texas (open access)

Prisoners, Not Criminals: How Captured German Soldiers Survived World War II in Central Texas

Research report describing, through interviews with local persons in the Brownwood area, events and activities that occurred during the occupation of Camp Bowie.
Date: April 2011
Creator: Dunning, James N.
Object Type: Paper
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Soldiers Greasing a Tank]

Photograph of Snuffy Raulston and Elmer Shafer greasing a tank at Camp Bowie.
Date: July 1944
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Zanetta Holding Snake]

Photograph of a smiling Joseph Zanetta holding up a long snake in a grassy field at Camp Bowie. Zanetta wears combat fatigues, a helmet, and sunglasses, and trees are visible in the background.
Date: 1944
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History