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[Domestic Nonprofit Corportation Certificate of Dissolution] (open access)

[Domestic Nonprofit Corportation Certificate of Dissolution]

Photocopy of the form completed by Jeannette Goodrum to dissolve the Women Airforce Service Pilots WWII as a nonprofit corporation in the state of California. A sticky note attached to the form includes a handwritten message stating, "It is finally finished. Hope you are well - and your husband also. Jan."
Date: December 26, 2008
Creator: California. Secretary of State
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Special Orders Number 96, Extracts 13-19] (open access)

[Special Orders Number 96, Extracts 13-19]

Special orders listing role re-assignments of several officers in the United States Air Force, including Marjorie Wakeham.
Date: April 26, 1957
Creator: 12th Air Division, Strategic Air Command
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Hospital Status] (open access)

[Hospital Status]

Form informing Justin L. Bible's commanding officer of his stay at Station Hospital, Hammer Field, California. It reads: "Register No. 13270. 26 November 1943. SUBJECT: Hospital Status. THRU: Surgeon. TO: The Commanding Officer, 350th Sig. Co. Wg., Camp Pinedale, Fresno, California. 1. In compliance with paragraph 7b(3) AR 40-590, the following information is furnished: a. Name: Cpl. Justin L. Bible. b. Date Admitted: 1 November 1943. Date of return to duty: 26 November 1943. *c. Line of duty: No EPTI. *d. Disease, was (not) the result of patient's own misconduct. *2. Further treatment is not required. For the Surgeon: * Cross out inappropriate word."
Date: November 26, 1943
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Runway Entertainment]

Photograph of the "entertainment," showing a woman wearing a black ballgown strutting down an elevated runway. Handwritten note on the back of the photo reads, "40th Annual Reunion - Aug. 26-30, '86 -- Long Beach, CA. Queen Mary."
Date: [1986-08-26..1986-08-30]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Postcard of Woman and Airplane Cartoon]

Postcard with a cartoon of a plane landing next to a woman, and text that says "It's plane to see...I'd like a letter from you!" A handwritten note addressed to Mrs. Clara Aten & Family from Nevin E. Herminger says "Dear Friends: I received your card, glad to hear from you. So you're having frosts up there, I guess we won't have any here, it is too warm here. Glad to hear the war loan is going good up there. Hope it does everywhere. It rained Fri. a little here, the first since we're out here I almost forgot what rain looked like. Ha. It is still wet. Nevin."
Date: September 26, 1943
Creator: Hermsinger, Nevin E.
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Men at Reunion]

Photograph of two men wearing suits posed standing side by side at a reunion event. Handwritten note on the back of the photo reads, "40th Annual Reunion - Aug. 26-30, '86 -- Long Beach, CA. Queen Mary."
Date: [1986-08-26..1986-08-30]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Runway Entertainment]

Photograph of a woman strutting down a runway with her arms in the air while wearing a sparkling black ballgown at a reunion event. Handwritten note on the back of the photo reads, "40th Annual Reunion - Aug. 26-30, '86 -- Long Beach, CA. Queen Mary."
Date: [1986-08-26..1986-08-30]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Speaker]

Photograph of a man speaking into a microphone from behind a table to an audience in the foreground. Handwritten note on the back of the photo reads, "40th Annual Reunion - Aug. 26-30, '86 -- Long Beach, CA. Queen Mary."
Date: [1986-08-26..1986-08-30]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Jazz Ensemble]

Photograph of a jazz ensemble playing onstage on the Queen Mary, showing two saxophone players with a drummer and keyboard player in the background. Handwritten note on the back of the photo reads, "40th Annual Reunion - Aug. 26-30, '86 -- Long Beach, CA. Queen Mary."
Date: [1986-08-26..1986-08-30]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Speaker]

Photograph of a man speaking from behind a lectern to an audience in the foreground. Handwritten note on the back of the photo reads, "40th Annual Reunion - Aug. 26-30, '86 -- Long Beach, CA. Queen Mary."
Date: [1986-08-26..1986-08-30]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Silver Decoration on Queen Mary]

Photograph of silver decorations depicting women and birds on the wall of the Queen Mary. Handwritten note on the back of the photo reads, "40th Annual Reunion - Aug. 26-30, '86 -- Long Beach CA. Queen Mary -- Decorations, Ger. silver."
Date: [1986-08-26..1986-08-30]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Jugglers]

Photograph of two young jugglers in suspenders tossing juggling pins over the head of a small child wearing an army helmet. Handwritten note on the back of the photo reads, "40th Annual Reunion - Aug. 26-30, '86 -- Long Beach, CA. Queen Mary."
Date: [1986-08-26..1986-08-30]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Man with Plaque]

Photograph of a man smiling from behind a dais with a plaque in his hand. Handwritten note on the back of the photo reads, "40th Annual Reunion - Aug. 26-30, '86 -- Long Beach, CA. Queen Mary."
Date: [1986-08-26..1986-08-30]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Runway Entertainment]

Photograph of a woman wearing a black ballgown strutting down an elevated runway. Handwritten note on the back of the photo reads, "40th Annual Reunion - Aug. 26-30, '86 -- Long Beach, CA. Queen Mary."
Date: [1986-08-26..1986-08-30]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, January 26, 1944] (open access)

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, January 26, 1944]

Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes (probably to her father) discussing being grounded due to weather, a letter from the recipient and bonds, cigarettes, mail, finances, flying a new plane out of Long Beach, Army regulations, and her friends Bobby and Marion. Written on Friendly Hotels stationary.
Date: January 26, 1944
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History

Oral History Interview with Daniel Thomas, February 26, 1999

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Transcript of an interview with Daniel Thomas, a Navy veteran (4th Marine Division), concerning his experiences while attached to the 4th Marine Division as a medic in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Thomas discusses his decision to join the Navy in 1943; Hospital Corps School, San Diego, 1943; assignment to the Fleet Marine Force; Field Medical School, 1944; assignment to the 4th Marine Division, 1944; Iwo Jima, February, 1945; detailed description of casualties and their treatment during the battle for Iwo Jima; and the postwar effects of his Iwo Jima experience.
Date: February 26, 1999
Creator: Lane, Peter B.; Byrd, Richard W. & Thomas, Daniel B., 1925-2007
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from Captain Merrill Smith to his wife - September 26, 1943] (open access)

[Letter from Captain Merrill Smith to his wife - September 26, 1943]

Letter from Captain Merrill Smith to his wife about a dinner he cooked over a campfire, swimming, and Sharon.
Date: September 26, 1943
Creator: Smith, Merrill
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History