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NWM Collection
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Charlyne Creger Collection
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Pioneer County City Museum (PCCM) Collection
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Kafka Collection
9
Eleanor Brown Collection
6
National WASP WWII Museum Collection
6
Catherine Parker Collection
5
Dorothy Christenson Collection
5
Helen Snapp Collection
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The Avenger, Volume 1, Number 1, May 11, 1943
First issue of The Avenger, a newsletter by the WASPs at Avenger Field featuring news, cartoons, essays, and photos.
Date:
May 11, 1943
Creator:
Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.)
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Aviation Enterprises Limited Operations]
Large book describing the WASP training operations at Avenger Field and Aviation Enterprise's plane repair and overhaul operations at Houston Municipal Airport.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Aviation Enterprises, Ltd.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Card: Charlyne Creger, WASP]
Card with a photograph of Charlyne Creger as a Woman Airforce Service Pilot. On the back is a list of information, such as her WASP class number, her station and assignments, and her career after the WASP. A more recent photo of Charlyne is printed in the top left corner of the back, and a quote from her reads, "How do I feel about being a WASP? Out of nothing, it made me something, because it gave me the courage to try anything!".
Date:
2001
Creator:
Wings Across America
Object Type:
Pamphlet
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Charlyne Creger Handwritten Autobiography]
Autobiographical essay handwritten by Charlyne Creger, describing major events in her life and career.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Creger, Charlyne
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Charlyne Creger Nursing Exam Results]
Results for Charlyne Creger's state nursing exams.
Date:
1950
Creator:
Board of Nurse Examiners for State of Texas
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Charlyne Creger Nursing School Scrapbook]
Scrapbook full of photographs of Charlyne Creger and her nursing school classmates and teachers. Many of the photos are taken in and around Houston, Texas.
Date:
1947
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Christenson in Plane]
Photograph of a woman, earlier identified as Dorothy Christenson, sitting in the cockpit of a plane and wearing a headset while looking off camera to the right. Handwriting on the back of the photo reads, "Dorothy C., Feb 14, 1943, Houston, Texas, WASP".
Date:
February 14, 1943
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Christenson in Plane #2]
Photograph of Dorothy Christenson in the cockpit of an airplane and looking off camera to the right. Handwritten notes on the back of the photo read, "Dorothy Christenson", "WASP School 43-W-3, Feb 1943", Houston Airport (Howard Hughes?)", "AT-6 from Ellington Field". A note on the right edge of the back possibly reads, "Alan D. Christenson 5".
Date:
February 1947
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: "A Flyby of Memories"]
Newspaper clipping with an article about WASP monuments being set, crashes that some WASP experienced in training, and Ann Atkeison's injury.
Date:
September 10, 1972
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Clipping
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: Class 3 Achieves First Goal]
Newspaper clipping describing the quality of the parachutes used at Avenger Field and the Link training process for the WASPs. The clipping also provides details about the graduation ceremony for the Women AIrforce Service Pilots, class of 43-W-3.
Date:
July 26, 1943
Creator:
Clements, Betty; Seip, Margaret & Baumgartner, Ann
Object Type:
Clipping
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: Cochran's Convent]
Photocopy of a magazine article providing the full story of the WASPs.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Newcomb, Harold
Object Type:
Clipping
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: Deaton introduced WASPs to Sweetwater]
Newspaper clipping with an article about Leoti Deaton, her involvement with Red Cross, the WASP, and the Order of Fifinella.
Date:
September 25, 1986
Creator:
Tanner, Doris Brinker
Object Type:
Clipping
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: Fireman Likes To Recall Training of Women Fliers]
Newspaper clipping with an article containing six stories from R. L. Summers about training WASP.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Cox, Mike
Object Type:
Clipping
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: Generals Visit Avenger]
Photocopy of pages from the first issue of The Avenger newspaper. In it are articles explaining how the 318th and 319th Army Air Forces Flying Training Divisions came about, better professions being available to women, a letter from a German spy to the Gestapo, and the significance of Avenger Field.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Clipping
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: "Memorial Reunion For WASP is Now Underway"]
Copy of Sweetwater Reporter's June 1972 issue. Four WASP related articles on front page and detailed in paper Titles are: "WASP's is Now Underway" , What Did WASP's Find Here Today", " Miss Cochran Known for Her Flying" and "Mrs. Young is leader of Order of Fifinella.
Date:
June 23, 1972
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Clipping
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: "National Air, 5th Annual National Air Races"]
Newspaper clipping containing as article about WASPs attending the 30th Anniversary Reunion.
Date:
June 15, 1972
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Clipping
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: Plane Janes]
Photocopied newspaper clipping of an article about who the WASP were, what they did, and the military's failure to recognize them as veterans.
Date:
January 30, 1977
Creator:
Hayes, Ed
Object Type:
Clipping
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: Reno joins WASPs in celebration]
Newspaper clipping with an article about U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno speaking and signing autographs at the 50th reunion celebration. A brief history about the WASPs is also included.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Coghlan, Keely
Object Type:
Clipping
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: "Reunion Brought Memories of High-Flying Pilot Days"]
Newspaper clipping of an article about the 30th WASP anniversary reunion. Certain WASPs' experience in service is also shared.
Date:
June 28, 1972
Creator:
Randerson, Middy
Object Type:
Clipping
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: Second Class Graduates]
Newspaper clipping describing the maintenance process for the airplanes used by the Women Airforce Service Pilots. The clipping also describes the renovations at Avenger Field's Medical Department and graduation ceremony for the class of 43-W-2.
Date:
June 28, 1943
Creator:
Buchner, Faith & Helburn, Margaret
Object Type:
Clipping
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: Secret role of women fliers recalled]
Newspaper clipping of an article about WASP being hidden from public knowledge, including the U.S. Department of Defense withholding veteran status from the women who served in WWII. The article includes a photograph of a group of young women in jumpsuits walking away from a small propeller plane. On the back of the clipping is a large advertisement for a sale, and part of an article about Fort Concho.
Date:
November 24, 1991
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Clipping
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: "Talk to TH"]
Magazine clipping with eight entries from WASP or military personnel that had experience in aviation.
Date:
January 2003
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Clipping
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: The Forgotten Flyers of WWII]
Photocopied clipping from the November/December 1989 issue of the Fireside Companion. It shares the story of the WASPs in celebraion of Veteran's Day.
Date:
November 1989
Creator:
King, Julie Adair
Object Type:
Clipping
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: The WASPS]
Photocopied magazine clipping about the squadron that led to the use of women in military aviation and life as a WASP.
Date:
January 1944
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Clipping
System:
The Portal to Texas History