[The Army Air Corps Song Lyrics] (open access)

[The Army Air Corps Song Lyrics]

Song lyrics for The Army Air Corps song.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Army Air Forces Student Weather Map #3, January 2]

Army Air Forces student weather map #3 for January 2, 1944, Time 0700C. There are questions on the back of the map.
Date: January 2, 1944
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Army Air Forces Student Weather Map #4, January 2]

Army Air Forces student weather map #4 for January 2, 1944, Time 1900C. There are questions and diagrams on the back of the map.
Date: January 2, 1944
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Student Notebook Air Navigation (open access)

Student Notebook Air Navigation

Student notebook of Suzette Van Daell focusing in air navigation. The majority of the notebook is completed in pencil.
Date: unknown
Creator: van Daell, Suzette
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Meteorology Exam #1] (open access)

[Meteorology Exam #1]

Meteorology exam with a total of twenty-five questions.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Weather Exam #1] (open access)

[Weather Exam #1]

Weather exam with a total of ten questions and a diagram illustrating a typical frontal system.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Weather Midterm Exam] (open access)

[Weather Midterm Exam]

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Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[WASP Song Lyrics #6] (open access)

[WASP Song Lyrics #6]

Lyrics for songs related to the Women Service Airforce Pilots. The songs do not have titles, with the exception of The Army Air Corps.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Aircraft Arrival Report] (open access)

[Aircraft Arrival Report]

Aircraft arrival report for the Army Air Forces. The Operations Office is 2563rd AAF Base Unit, Avenger-Field, Texas.
Date: unknown
Creator: Army Air Forces
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[WASP Song Lyrics #1] (open access)

[WASP Song Lyrics #1]

Lyrics for songs related to the Women Service Airforce Pilots. The songs included are: Dedication Song; Buckle Down, Fifinella, Buckle Down; I'm a Flying Wreck; The Gay Desperado; It Happens Every Time; The Army Air Corps; Rugged But Right; and the WASP Song, along with several others without names.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Flying: Air Traffic Rules (open access)

Flying: Air Traffic Rules

Military text describing the rules of air traffic and instrument flight.
Date: May 25, 1943
Creator: United States. Army Air Forces.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Army Air Forces Student Weather Map #1, January 1 #2]

Army Air Forces student weather map #1 for January 1, 1944, Time 0700C. There are questions on the back of the map. The instructions read: "Draw in missing isobars - Color: fronts, hazards, precipitation, air masses and pressure center letters."
Date: January 1, 1944
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
BT-15 Cockpit Procedure (open access)

BT-15 Cockpit Procedure

Text detailing the cockpit procedure, as it was given to the Women Airforce Service Pilots.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Suzette Van Daell Scrap Paper #2 (open access)

Suzette Van Daell Scrap Paper #2

Piece of scrap paper belonging to Suzette Van Daell. It includes the following text: "Place arrow on distance traveled--opposite distance off course read degree of correction on inside scale--this gives parallel to TC." It also includes line segments and calculations.
Date: unknown
Creator: van Daell, Suzette
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Physics Exam] (open access)

[Physics Exam]

Physics exam partially completed by Suzette Van Daell. It includes vocabulary, fill-in-the-blank, true/false, and calculation questions based on basic physics concepts like the relationships between velocity, time, distance, mass, and acceleration. Several sections are left blank. There are two sketches of rabbits on the front of the first page and the back of the last page.
Date: unknown
Creator: Army Air Forces
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Weather Exam, September 28, 1944] (open access)

[Weather Exam, September 28, 1944]

Weather exam containing ten weather-related questions. There is a 2x and an 80 circled in the upper left corner of the page.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

[WASP on Walkway]

Photograph of four WASP posing for a picture on a walkway. The woman in the yellow shirt is Suzette Van Daell Douglas.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[WASP Reunion Photo]

Photograph of Suzette Van Daell Douglas and three other WASP at a WASP reunion.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: Scarsdale Home News] (open access)

[Clipping: Scarsdale Home News]

Newspaper clipping from No. 11 of the Scarsdale Home News. The main article is titled "A Family Affair," which discusses the swearing in of Dorothy Jean Leslie as a member of the WAVES or Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service. Other articles center around the local weather phenomenon, post-war plans, the returns of local veterans, wedding announcements, and obituaries.
Date: October 7, 1944
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Card from the National WASP WWII Museum to Suzette Douglas, 2009] (open access)

[Card from the National WASP WWII Museum to Suzette Douglas, 2009]

A card from Executive Director Sharon Davis to Suzette Douglas inviting Suzette to a Veteran's day event honoring the WASP's service at Avenger Field in Texas. It includes a thank you card for service to the United States of America from Pearl K. Zienert. It also includes an envelope addressed to Suzette Douglass from the National WASP WWII Museum.
Date: 2009
Creator: National WASP WWII Museum
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Radio Range Voice Procedure] (open access)

[Radio Range Voice Procedure]

Text titled Radio Range Voice Procedure discussing standardized voice procedure in local flying practices in Abilene, Texas.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Volunteering On the Homefront Exhibit]

Photograph of a exhibit entitled "Volunteering on the Homefront." There are various uniforms and photographs visible as part of the exhibit. the exhibit includes the US Cadet Nurse Corps and the WASP.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Ann Stuart to Women Airforce Service Pilots of WWII, July 30, 2009] (open access)

[Letter from Ann Stuart to Women Airforce Service Pilots of WWII, July 30, 2009]

Letter from Ann Stuart at Texas Women's University to Women Airforce Service Pilots of WWII discussing the Congressional Gold Medal Ceremony. It indicates that the design and casting process for the Congressional Medal is underway and that TWU has determined that the focus of the 2010 Founder's Day Celebration will be the WASPs.
Date: July 30, 2009
Creator: Stuart, Ann
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Main Street Cafe in Sweetwater, Texas]

Photograph of two WASP standing outside the Main Street Cafe in the R. A. Ragland building during the WASP reunion in Sweetwater, Texas.
Date: November 1986
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History