[Women Airforce Service Pilots, WWII] (open access)

[Women Airforce Service Pilots, WWII]

Pamphlet discussing the important history of the Women Airforce Service Pilots and a statue monument to be constructed in their honor at Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Women at Department of Aviation]

Photograph of a large group of women (possibly including Charlyne Creger, fourth row, far right) posing on stairs in front of the Love Field Department of Aviation; several of the women are wearing WASP uniforms.
Date: June 1990
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Women in Front of Palm Tree]

Photograph of four women standing in front a palm tree and each holding what appears to be ice cream cones or snow cones. Handwritten notes on the back of the photo read, "Evelyn Laesch, Mabel Rawbinson, Bertha Link, me- Dorothy Christenson", "In court of Almsted, 8700, S Main Houston, Tex", "March 1943".
Date: March 1943
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Women on Boat in Galveston]

Photograph of five women in swimsuits posed on the back of small boat with the name, "Oleander City Galveston" painted on the siding. The boat is facing the direction of a harbor, where other boats and ships can be seen in the distance. "Creger" is written on the back of the photo.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Women on Boat in Galveston #2]

Photograph of five women in swimsuits posed on the back of small boat with the name, "Oleander City Galveston" painted on the siding. The boat is facing the direction of a harbor, where other boats and ships can be seen in the distance. "Creger" is written on the back of the photo.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Women on Ship Near Railings]

Photograph of a group of young women all wearing skirts or dresses and standing grouped together by the railing on the deck of a ship in the Houston harbor.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

["Women Trainees Only" Sign and Barracks at Avenger Field]

Photograph of a sign reading "WOMEN TRAINEES ONLY IN THIS AREA" between barracks at Avenger Field. An open hangar is in the background while a flag pole stands in the right foreground.
Date: 1944
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Women With Plane in Love Field]

Photograph of four women standing in front of a plane with a star on it. Several notes handwritten on the back read, "April 1943, Love Field, Houston, Tex", "Mabel Rawbinson, Killed in Service, 1944, Kalamazoo, Mich", "Bertha Link (Trosky) Grand Rapids, Mich", "Dorothy Christenson (Mitchell), Milwaukee, Wis", "Evelyn Laesch (Mich)", "8700 S Main Houston, Texas, Room 21 Roomates, met on train in men's room".
Date: April 1943
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Wooden Plane]

Small, wooden plane with the words, "Keep 'em flying" burned into the wings and "Abilene, Tx" burned into the back. A label is attached to the plane with string and is address from "Mother" to Moris Baxter.
Date: 1944
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Young People at Picnic Table]

Photograph of six people that mostly seem to be in their twenties sitting around a picnic table with a checkered tablecloth and several glasses and soda bottles. Other picnic-goers and a wooden picket fence can be seen in the background. A note on the cardboard folder the photo resides in reads, "Dallas 1944, Vi Thunn".
Date: 1944
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History