Resource Type

WASP Training Songs (open access)

WASP Training Songs

The lyrics for two WASP training songs, "Zoot-Suits and Parachutes" and "You'll Go Forth From Here."
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
WASP Training Songs #3 (open access)

WASP Training Songs #3

The lyrics for two WASP training songs, "Zoot-Suits and Parachutes" and "You'll Go Forth From Here".
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
Avenger Field (open access)

Avenger Field

Poem from the perspective of a WASP speaking to Avenger Field, written by Effie Pratt, class 43-W-8.
Date: unknown
Creator: Pratt, Effie
System: The Portal to Texas History
WASP Training Songs #4 (open access)

WASP Training Songs #4

The lyrics for two WASP training songs, "Zoot-Suits and Parachutes" and "You'll Go Forth From Here".
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
[WASP Training Song Lyrics #5] (open access)

[WASP Training Song Lyrics #5]

The lyrics for seven WASP training songs, "Woof Teds", "The Girls of the 318th", "You Take the Runway", "Flight Polka", "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp", "AAFFTD", and "Yankee Doodle Pilots".
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
[WASP Training Song Lyrics #4] (open access)

[WASP Training Song Lyrics #4]

The lyrics for seven WASP training songs, "Woof Teds", "The Girls of the 318th", "You Take the Runway", "Flight Polka", "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp", "AAFFTD", and "Yankee Doodle Pilots".
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
[WASP Songs About Texas] (open access)

[WASP Songs About Texas]

Three brief songs from the point of view of Women Airforce Service Pilots coming to Texas and Avenger Field.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
[WASP Training Song Lyrics] (open access)

[WASP Training Song Lyrics]

The lyrics for two WASP training songs, "We Hate To See You Leave Us" and "Auld Lang Syne To W-5".
Date: unknown
Creator: Carmody, Nelle & Lowell-Wallace, Scotty
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Lyrics to WASP songs] (open access)

[Lyrics to WASP songs]

The lyrics for four WASP training songs, "Gee Mom! I Want To Go Home", an unnamed song, "Wash Out Dirge", and "Just a Flying wreck".
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
[WASP Training Song Lyrics #2] (open access)

[WASP Training Song Lyrics #2]

The lyrics for two WASP training songs, "We Hate To See You Leave Us" and "Auld Lang Syne To W-5".
Date: unknown
Creator: Carmody, Nelle & Lowell-Wallace, Scotty
System: The Portal to Texas History
[WASP Training Song Lyrics #3] (open access)

[WASP Training Song Lyrics #3]

The lyrics for three WASP training songs, "Zoot-Suits and Parachutes" "Hazy Mazy", and "Flight Line Song".
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
WASP Training Songs #2 (open access)

WASP Training Songs #2

Song lyrics for two WASP training songs: "Zoot-Suits and Parachutes", sung to the tune of "Bell Bottom Trousers", and "You'll Go Forth From Here", sung to the tune of "Dig your Grave with a Silver Spade". A signature can be seen at the top left corner of the page that possibly reads, "Ken Dick" (Kenneth Dickson?).
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Partial WASP Song Lyrics] (open access)

[Partial WASP Song Lyrics]

Partial song lyrics to Women Airforce Service Pilots training songs.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Cattle Drive Poems] (open access)

[Cattle Drive Poems]

Two poems about cattle driving titled, "The Cattle String Out", and "The Drags" with small sketches seen on the page. The sketch at the top appears to be a cow with a brand on its side. Handwriting on back reads, "[illegible] Moore never shook a duty or a danger in his life".
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Poem: Abilene Texas...] (open access)

[Poem: Abilene Texas...]

Poem written about the city of Abilene, Texas published in The Southern Pharmaceutical Journal and Drug Price Review, with a portion of an article about frontier medicine printed on the other side.
Date: October 1936
Creator: Cousins, Walt
System: The Portal to Texas History
High Flight (open access)

High Flight

Copy of a poem by John G. Magee with a correspondence note between two unknown people typed below that briefly describes his life.
Date: unknown
Creator: Magee, John G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
WASP Training Songs (open access)

WASP Training Songs

The lyrics for two WASP training songs, "Zoot-Suits and Parachutes" and "You'll Go Forth From Here."
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
WASP Training Songs #6 (open access)

WASP Training Songs #6

The lyrics for two WASP training songs, "Zoot-Suits and Parachutes" and "You'll Go Forth From Here".
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
WASP Training Songs #5 (open access)

WASP Training Songs #5

The lyrics for two WASP training songs, "Zoot-Suits and Parachutes" and "You'll Go Forth From Here".
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
[44-W-8 Poem] (open access)

[44-W-8 Poem]

Poem titled, "44-W-8" that is about prefering to be a WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots) rather than a WAC (Women's Army Corps) or WAVE (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service).
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Postcard from Cornelia Yerkes to Frances Yerkes, February 11, 1946] (open access)

[Postcard from Cornelia Yerkes to Frances Yerkes, February 11, 1946]

Postcard from Cornelia Yerkes to her mother discussing getting a room at the Tudor Hotel in New York City and visiting there with friends. The postcard features the painting "Festival of St. Roche" by E. Debat-Ponsan.
Date: February 11, 1946
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
System: The Portal to Texas History