[Clipping: Secret role of women fliers recalled] (open access)

[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
[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, February 24, 1943] (open access)

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, February 24, 1943]

Letter from Cornelia Yerkes discussing recent travels, issues with government forms, and differences between Sweetwater and Houston. Typed on Blue Bonnet Hotel (Sweetwater) stationary.
Date: February 24, 1943
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History