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[Clipping: Former WASP flies into Fort Stewart to donate uniform and propeller] (open access)

[Clipping: Former WASP flies into Fort Stewart to donate uniform and propeller]

Newspaper clipping with an article about Helen Snapp donating her uniform and a propeller to the Fort Stewart Museum and her experiences from serving in the military as a WASP.
Date: March 10, 2001
Creator: Phillips, Noelle
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: 'Like a homesick angel'] (open access)

[Clipping: 'Like a homesick angel']

Newspaper clipping of an article about the celebration of the 50th WASP Anniversary Reunion and some experiences from former WASPs. Part of another article about Governor Ann Richards attending the reunion is also included.
Date: May 23, 1993
Creator: Fulton, Loretta
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: New Deal In Ground School Calls For Six Day Week] (open access)

[Clipping: New Deal In Ground School Calls For Six Day Week]

Newspaper clipping of an article about the three phases of the new training program recently adopted for the female pilots.
Date: May 5, 1944
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: Still Flying High After 50 Years] (open access)

[Clipping: Still Flying High After 50 Years]

Magazine clipping of an article about the history of the WASPs and their current whereabouts.
Date: 1995
Creator: Siler, Jennifer McGhee
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Portal to Texas History
Frances Rohrer Sargent (open access)

Frances Rohrer Sargent

Information about WASP Frances Rohrer Sargent. Topics include her growing up, her stations while a WASP, and her life after the WASP disbanded. There is also a picture of Sargent about halfway down the page on the left.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Helen Wyatt Snapp in Her Own Words (open access)

Helen Wyatt Snapp in Her Own Words

A document about Helen Snapp in her own words. She describes growing up, and her inspiration to become a pilot. She also mentions her stations while enlisted and her life after the WASP disbanded. There is also a picture of Snapp about halfway down the page on the left.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Helen Wyatt Snapp W.A.S.P. 43-W-4 B-17F Memphis Belle (open access)

Helen Wyatt Snapp W.A.S.P. 43-W-4 B-17F Memphis Belle

An autobiography of Helen Snapp. There a photo of the B-17F Memphis Belle above the text with tail number 124485, and a portrait of Helen Snapp on the right side.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, February 1943?] (open access)

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, February 1943?]

Letter from Cornelia Yerkes discussing money, transferring bank accounts from Atlanta to Sweetwater, passing a check flight, staying in sickbay, news from home, a student pilot's poetry, practicing stalls, sending mail, and nurses.
Date: 1943-02~
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, March 17, 1943] (open access)

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, March 17, 1943]

Letter from Cornelia Yerkes discussing leaving sick bay, flight training, recent correspondence, pay, her weight, and classmates.
Date: March 17, 1943
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to Fred G. and Frances Yerkes, August 3, 1943] (open access)

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to Fred G. and Frances Yerkes, August 3, 1943]

Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to her parents discussing her request to be stationed in Dallas instead of Wilmington, possibilities for visiting home, graduation of her class at Avenger Field and the climate in Sweetwater, her classmates' assignments, and other related news.
Date: August 3, 1943
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Packet Items to Paul A. Hill] (open access)

[Packet Items to Paul A. Hill]

A collection of various military orders and documents pertaining to Paul A. Hill's Air Force and Air Reserve service.
Date: 1945-10-09/1958-08-12
Creator: United States. Air Force.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Paul A. Hill Air Force Documents] (open access)

[Paul A. Hill Air Force Documents]

A collection of various military orders and documents pertaining to Paul A. Hill's Air Force and Air Reserve service.
Date: 1929-09-18/1955-02-03
Creator: Hill, Paul A.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Special Orders Number 80, Extract 2] (open access)

[Special Orders Number 80, Extract 2]

Special orders extract reassigning several Women Airforce Service Pilots to new stations and agreeing to pay them by the mile flown or to reimburse them for expenses incurred while traveling.
Date: September 16, 1944
Creator: Pinkston, Sid C. & Pinkston, Sid C.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Timeline of Cornelia Yerkes Kafka's World War II service] (open access)

[Timeline of Cornelia Yerkes Kafka's World War II service]

A handwritten timeline with details of Cornelia Yerkes' service as a WASP and Red Cross worker in World War II, with details on her training, duty stations, aircraft and routes flown, and some personal details.
Date: 2000~/2009~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History