11 Matching Results

Results open in a new window/tab.

[Clipping: "The WASPS"] (open access)

[Clipping: "The WASPS"]

Magazine clipping comparing how safe the WASP were compared to the entire United States, Virginia Moffett's service with the WASP, and the amount of hours they logged.
Date: January 1944
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: The WASP] (open access)

[Clipping: The WASP]

Clipping describing the records set and the work completed by the Women Airforce Service Pilots. It includes pictures of figures such as Jacqueline Cochran, Mary A. Nelson, Helen Snapp, Maragaret Bruns, and Ruth Underwood.
Date: January 1944
Creator: Stuart, John
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: The WASPS] (open access)

[Clipping: The WASPS]

Photocopied magazine clipping about the squadron that led to the use of women in military aviation and life as a WASP.
Date: January 1944
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: "The WASP"] (open access)

[Clipping: "The WASP"]

Clipping describing the records set and the work completed by the Women Airforce Service Pilots. It includes pictures of figures such as Jacqueline Cochran, Mary A. Nelson, Helen Snapp, Maragaret Bruns, and Ruth Underwood.
Date: January 1944
Creator: Stuart, John
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Portal to Texas History
[A Note With Airplane Info on It] (open access)

[A Note With Airplane Info on It]

A note with airplane info on it, including Culver Cadets PQ 8 & 14, Beechcraft twin, UC 78, and Bamboo Bomber.
Date: September 12, 1944
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Robert St. John to Mrs. Lawson, December 20, 1944] (open access)

[Letter from Robert St. John to Mrs. Lawson, December 20, 1944]

Typed carbon copy of a broadcast sent from Robert St. John to Mrs. Lawson discussing the experience of Women Airforce Service Pilots.
Date: December 20, 1944
Creator: St. John, Robert
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[A Sheet of Paper With Handwritten Notes About Operation Aphrodite] (open access)

[A Sheet of Paper With Handwritten Notes About Operation Aphrodite]

A sheet of paper with handwritten notes about Operation Aphrodite by James Doolittle. Other people mentioned include Carolyn Miller, Marge Sizemore, Doris Hamaker, Mary Ann Gordon, and Michael Thames.
Date: 1944
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Address by Gen. Henry H. Arnold, Commanding General to WASP Graduate Class, December 7, 1944 #3] (open access)

[Address by Gen. Henry H. Arnold, Commanding General to WASP Graduate Class, December 7, 1944 #3]

Script of an address given by General Henry H. Arnold, the Commanding General of the Army Air Forces, to the last graduating WASP class.
Date: December 7, 1944
Creator: Arnold, Henry Harley
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Multiple Sheets of Paper With Speech Notes for Operation Aphrodite] (open access)

[Multiple Sheets of Paper With Speech Notes for Operation Aphrodite]

Multiple sheets of paper with speech notes for Operation Aphrodite. There are mentions to launch sites, and different types of bombs, including the the B-17 Smart Bomb.
Date: 1944
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Harry R. Snapp to Helen Wyatt Snapp, August 4, 1994] (open access)

[Letter from Harry R. Snapp to Helen Wyatt Snapp, August 4, 1994]

Letter from UNT History Professor Harry F. Snapp to Helen Wyatt Snapp discussing the development of a book meant to "preserve a number of WASPs as historical personages as well as the best context for preserving historically the place of WASPs as a group." The book's intended audience will be college women, high school girls, and young adult women. Harry Snapp asks Helen Snapp for her cooperation in making the book possible. The letter contains a handwritten P. S. that includes his contact information, should Helen wish to contact him.
Date: August 4, 1944
Creator: Snapp, Harry F.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[A Note With Information About Operation Aphrodite] (open access)

[A Note With Information About Operation Aphrodite]

A note with information about Operation Aphrodite, which was an operation for unmanned aircraft, and failed.
Date: 1944
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History