Resource Type
Partner
Collection
Country
States
13 Matching Results
Results open in a new window/tab.
Results:
1 - 13 of
13
[WASP Training Base Historic Marker Inscription]
Typed text of an inscription for a WASP training base historic marker, at Avenger Field. Also included are details for the planned location for the marker, the marker's material, and dimensions for the inscription's lettering.
Date:
February 20, 1972
Creator:
Texas State Historical Survey Committee
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Mine Warfare Training Certificate]
Distinguished graduate certificate for the completion of "Mine Warfare Basic Fire Fighting Training" at the Mine Warfare Training Center. Both the certificate and its folder have the logo of the training center that is an open book with the words, "Forging the path through knowledge", surrounding it.
Date:
April 20, 2001
Creator:
Mine Warfare Training Center
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Special Orders Number 104, Extract 1-2]
Special orders for a list of Women Airforce Service Pilots and other personnel to return to specified based for training purposes.
Date:
November 20, 1944
Creator:
2563D Army Air Forces Base Unit & Nance, Walter L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Consent of Parents or Guardian to Enlistment]
Photocopy of a consent form signed by Emma Vaughan allowing her son Jack to enlist in the Marine Corps despite being a minor.
Date:
February 20, 1942
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[W.A.S.P. Historic Monument Estimated Costs]
Estimation of funds necessary to complete the WASP memorial at Avenger Field in Sweetwater.
Date:
February 20, 1992
Creator:
Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.)
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Special Orders Number 121, Extract 2]
Special orders extract listing several men from Sweetwater who were inducted as flight instructors and Air Corps mechanics that are to remain on inactive status. Rigdon Edwards Jr., known Women Airforce Service Pilots instructor, can be seen listed among the names.
Date:
May 20, 1944
Creator:
United States. Air Force.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Minutes: WASP Committee Meeting, August 20, 1992]
Minutes for the WASP Committee meeting including updates on obtaining a historical marker, fundraising, and brochures and posters.
Date:
August 20, 1992
Creator:
Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.)
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Minutes for Avenger Field Meeting, May 20, 1989]
Minutes for a meeting of WASP representatives and Sweetwater community members at Avenger Field including discussion on the progress of the WASP memorial.
Date:
May 20, 1989
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Enlisted Reserve Corp I.D. Rigdon Edwards]
Front and back copies of an identification card for the Enlisted Reserve Corps belonging to WASP flight instructor, Rigdon Edwards. They are posted on a sheet of blue paper along with a photograph of Edwards in uniform, seen to the right.
Date:
May 20, 1944
Creator:
United States Army
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Medical Consideration of WASP
Report on the physical, psychological, medical, and emotional capabilities of women in aviation, formed from several studies on the Women Airforce Service Pilots. The report concludes that women can typically meet all requirements for safe flight without hindrance, and suggests that any similar future program to the WASP should be militarized.
Date:
December 20, 1944
Creator:
United States. Air Force.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Gayle Snell Individual Flight Record #3]
Individual Flight Record for Gayle Snell, documenting her hours on different airframes as a WASP.
Date:
December 20, 1944
Creator:
Buckingham, George E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Organizations adopt Wings Across America, National WASP Museum
A printed webpage article from Air Force Print News discussing the Arnold Air Society's adoption of the Wings Across American WASP Museum project.
Date:
April 20, 2004
Creator:
Easterling, Ann
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with David Lee Hill, September 20, 2003
Interview with David Lee "Tex" Hill of San Antonio, Texas, a veteran from the United States Navy during World War II in the China-Burma-India Theater. The interview includes Hill's personal experiences while in the Navy, including memories of pre-war flight training in Florida, the Flying Tigers, and the Salween River Gorge attack. There is a photograph and a short biography of Hill after the interview transcription.
Date:
September 20, 2003
Creator:
Cox, William G. & Hill, David Lee
System:
The Portal to Texas History