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Student Pilot Handbook
Handbook for student pilots, detailing procedures, maneuvers, and judgement criteria for learning how to fly planes. The book includes numerous illustrations, some humorous and others instructional, to aid the student. There are several handwritten notes on the front page from grateful students of the WASP class 44-W-3.
Date:
March 1943
Creator:
Hunt, Jack & Fahringer, Ray
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[War Department Message Forms]
Seven blank War Department message forms.
Date:
March 12, 1943
Creator:
United States Department of War
Object Type:
Legal Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Inter-Office Communication from R. E. Olin to Charles A. Prince, March 17, 1943 #2]
Inter-Office Communication from R. E. Olin to Charles A. Prince discussing the attached original estimates from Alston Construction Company
Date:
March 17, 1943
Creator:
Olin, R. E.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Inter-Office Communication from R. E. Olin to Charles A. Prince, March 17, 1943 #1]
Inter-Office Communication from R. E. Olin to Charles A. Prince discussing two applications for contract work to construct expansion facilities for Plosser-Prince Air Academy, one from Alston Construction Company and the other from Carl Harvey.
Date:
March 17, 1943
Creator:
Olin, R. E.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter to Landon E. McConnell, March 15, 1943]
Letter to Major Landon E. McConnell discussing the request for additional facilities at the Academy in Sweetwater, Texas. Specifically, the need for an underwater gasoline storage tank, a concrete washrack, and a new asphalt paved road.
Date:
March 15, 1943
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Telegraph from B. E. Meyers to Plosser-Prince Air Academy, March 26, 1943]
Telegram from Commanding General B. E. Meyers to Plosser-Prince Air Academy rescinding all provisions within a previous letter dated February 26, 1943 signed by Colonel W. F. Volandt.
Date:
March 26, 1943
Creator:
Meyers, B. E.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from H. M. Renaud to Joe B. Plosser and Charles A. Prince, March 18, 1943]
Letter from H. M. Renaud of the British Air Commission to Joe B. Plosser and Charles A. Prince Plosser-Air Academy discussing overdue payments owed to the British Air Commission totaling $20,000.
Date:
March 18, 1943
Creator:
Renaud, H. M.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Preliminary Cost Estimate for an Expansion of Plosser-Prince Air Academy]
Preliminary cost estimate for an expansion of Plosser-Prince Air Academy in Sweetwater, Texas. There is a handwritten note at the bottom of the page explaining how the estimate was based on a revised barracks plan.
Date:
March 16, 1943
Creator:
Harvey, Carl
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from G. F. Buskie to Plosser-Prince Air Academy, March 24, 1943]
Letter from G. F. Buskie to Plosser-Prince Air Academy discussing the appointment of a Defense Plant Corporation engineer to the Plosser-Prince Air Academy to oversee the expansion program approved by the Defense Plant Corporation Board of Directors two days previous. The bottom of the letter is initialed by J. B. Plosser.
Date:
March 24, 1943
Creator:
Buskie, G. F.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Plosser-Prince Air Academy to Landon E. McConnell, March 1, 1943]
Letter from Plosser-Prince Air Academy to Major Landon E. McConnell discussing a request to expand the Academy at Avenger Field.
Date:
March 1, 1943
Creator:
Plosser-Prince Air Academy
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Investigation Report from George Woods, March 21, 1943]
Investigation Report from George Woods containing a copy of an attached signed statement by one Logan Pierson for the case of U.S. vs. Plosser et al.
Date:
March 21, 1943
Creator:
Woods, George
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Certificate of Elimination, March 1943]
Text certifying that three women have been eliminated from the training program at Avenger Field (the 318th Army Air Forces Flying Training Detachment) in March 1943. It includes name, date eliminated, and reason for each person.
Date:
March 25, 1943
Creator:
McConnell, Landon E.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Carl Harvey to R. E. Olin, March 16, 1943]
Letter from General Contractor Carl Harvey to R. E. Olin discussing the payment of $10,000 from Mr. Harvey to Mr. Olin. The first page is handwritten, while the final two pages are typed.
Date:
March 16, 1943
Creator:
Harvey, Carl
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Inter-Office Communication from R. E. Olin to Charles A. Prince, March 17, 1943 #3]
Inter-Office Communication from R. E. Olin to Charles A. Prince discussing the expansion of the women's program at Plosser-Prince Air Academy.
Date:
March 17, 1943
Creator:
Olin, R. E.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Student's Workbook Elementary Weather
Student workbook for elementary weather, belonging to Suzette Van Daell. Most of the workbook is completed in pencil.
Date:
March 1, 1943
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Pamphlet
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[War Savings Bond Class A Reservation, March 16, 1943
War savings bond form in which Solange D'Hooghe authorizes the semi-monthly payment of $6.25.
Date:
March 16, 1943
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Blue Bonnet Hotel Receipt]
A receipt from the Blue Bonnet Hotel in Sweetwater, Texas, totaling at $2.50 for a room.
Date:
March 22, 1943
Creator:
Blue Bonnet Hotel
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Lester Holes to Mickey McLernon, March 19, 1943]
Letter from Lester G. Holes to Mickey McLernon about aviation and a menu from the Royal Air Force of the food they will be serving.
Date:
March 10, 1943
Creator:
Holes, Lester G.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Memorandum to Civilian Personnel]
Memorandum notifying civilian military employees that during a time of war they are subject to military law.
Date:
March 15, 1943
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Crowd of Women Outside Building]
Photograph of a crowd of women, several wearing bomber jackets, standing outside of a building. The photo is dated on the back as March, 1943. Written very lightly in pencil on the right edge of the back of the photo is the name, "Christenson".
Date:
March 1943
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
[Five Women Sitting in Field]
Photograph of five women sitting in a field outside several buildings. Notes written on the back read, "Bertha Link, Mabel Rawbinson, Evelyn Laesch, 43W3, March 1943, Houston".
Date:
March 1943
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to Frances Yerkes, March 18, 1943]
Letter from Cornelia Yerkes discussing recent letters, the weather and flying, ground school, being able to fly solo, taking a trip to San Angelo, missing socks, maintaining her car, a new class of trainees, pictures from her dad, problems with dry skin, and her next phase of training.
Date:
March 18, 1943
Creator:
Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to Fred G. Yerkes, March 20, 1943]
Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to her father thanking him for recent packages and discussing a solo flight, a check ride, taxiing at Avenger Field, calisthenics, weather, menial work, and money.
Date:
March 20, 1943
Creator:
Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History