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[Clipping: Women, Wings and War] (open access)

[Clipping: Women, Wings and War]

Photocopy of an article discussing Margaret Harper's experience serving in the WASP, duties she was given, the discontinuation of the WASP, and sexual discrimination against female veterans. Another article about the history and preservation of WASP history in Texas Woman's University is also included.
Date: July 18, 1989
Creator: Porter, Bob
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Envelope Addressed to Rigdon Edwards] (open access)

[Envelope Addressed to Rigdon Edwards]

Envelope addressed to Rigdon Edwards in Sweetwater, Texas, from Jeanette Jenkins.
Date: March 18, 1982
Creator: Jenkins, Jeanette J.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Lyda Keefe to Sweetwater Museum, January 18, 1989] (open access)

[Letter from Lyda Keefe to Sweetwater Museum, January 18, 1989]

Letter from Lyda Dunham Keefe to Sweetwater Museum requesting the zoot suit and pillows she donated some time ago for speeches she will be making about WASP.
Date: January 18, 1989
Creator: Keefe, Lyda Dunham
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Phil Gramm to the Women Airforce Service Pilots, September 18, 1986] (open access)

[Letter from Phil Gramm to the Women Airforce Service Pilots, September 18, 1986]

Letter from Phil Gramm to the Women Airforce Service Pilots, greeting them and thanking them for their past service in the United States Air Force.
Date: September 18, 1986
Creator: Gramm, Phil
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Rigdon Edwards to Nancy Shaw, November 18, 1986] (open access)

[Letter from Rigdon Edwards to Nancy Shaw, November 18, 1986]

Letter from Nancy Shaw to Rigdon Edwards asking if she could meet with him to ask him about his experiences as a WASP instructor.
Date: November 18, 1986
Creator: Shaw, Nancy W.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Cecil Minshew, February 18, 1983 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Cecil Minshew, February 18, 1983

Interview with Cecil T. Minshew regarding his experiences in the military and as a prisoner of war of the Japanese during World War II. He was part of the Texas National Guard, 36th Division, 131st Field Artillery, 2nd Battalion, also known as the "Lost Battalion." He was captured on the island of Java in March of 1942 and spent the duration of the war thereafter as a prison of war in camps in South East Asia and in Japan.
Date: February 18, 1983
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Minshew, Cecil T.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library