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Pictorial History of Fort Wolters, Volume 14: Officer Wives Club and NCO Wives Club Activities (open access)

Pictorial History of Fort Wolters, Volume 14: Officer Wives Club and NCO Wives Club Activities

This volume includes many photographs of the activities of the Fort Wolters' Officers' Wives Club, NCO Wives Club, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, and Teen Club.
Date: unknown
Creator: Casper, Willie H., Jr.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pictorial History of Fort Wolters, Volume 13: Police, Fire, Training Aids, Band, Weather Squadron, Recreation, Prisoner of War Camp, Nike, Camp Wolters Enterprise, Parks (open access)

Pictorial History of Fort Wolters, Volume 13: Police, Fire, Training Aids, Band, Weather Squadron, Recreation, Prisoner of War Camp, Nike, Camp Wolters Enterprise, Parks

This volume includes a brief history (and many photographs) of Fort Wolters' 84th Military Police Detachment, Fire Department, Training Aids, 328th Army Band, Weather Squadron, Recreation, Prisoner of War Camp 1943-1945, Nike, Camp Wolters Enterprise, and Parks.
Date: unknown
Creator: Casper, Willie H., Jr.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pictorial History of Fort Wolters, Volume 12: U.S. Army Security Agencies (open access)

Pictorial History of Fort Wolters, Volume 12: U.S. Army Security Agencies

This volume includes many photographs of personnel of the 316th, 303rd, 330th, and 311th Army Security Agency Battalions.
Date: unknown
Creator: Casper, Willie H., Jr.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pictorial History of Fort Wolters, Volume 11: 864 Engineer Battalion, Special Category Army and Air Force (open access)

Pictorial History of Fort Wolters, Volume 11: 864 Engineer Battalion, Special Category Army and Air Force

This volume includes a history of Special Category Army with Air Force at Fort Wolters, and includes many photographs of the 864th Engineer Battalion.
Date: unknown
Creator: Casper, Willie H., Jr.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pictorial History of Fort Wolters, Volume 10: Primary Helicopter School Training Curriculum for Officers and Candidates (open access)

Pictorial History of Fort Wolters, Volume 10: Primary Helicopter School Training Curriculum for Officers and Candidates

This volume details the curriculum at the U.S. Army Primary Helicopter Training School. It includes a chart of training concepts, a school brigade organizational chart, and a description of the 16-week training course.
Date: unknown
Creator: Casper, Willie H., Jr.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pictorial History of Fort Wolters, Volume 9: Athletic Awards (open access)

Pictorial History of Fort Wolters, Volume 9: Athletic Awards

This volume includes photographs showing personnel receiving trophies and other recognition for sports activities at the base, such as basketball, golf, softball, bowling, and other sports.
Date: unknown
Creator: Casper, Willie H., Jr.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pictorial History of Fort Wolters, Volume 8: Southern Airways Company, Southern Airways of Texas (open access)

Pictorial History of Fort Wolters, Volume 8: Southern Airways Company, Southern Airways of Texas

This volume details the role that the Southern Airways Company played in their contracts for Fort Wolters from 1956-1968. The volume includes biographies of key administrators of Southern Airways, a list of employees, a list of reunion attendees, and a time-line of key events.
Date: unknown
Creator: Casper, Willie H., Jr.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Camp Wolters Soldiers at Mass]

Illustrated here is a photograph of a large group of solders seated in wooden chairs inside a large room. There are two aisles running between the groups of chairs and doors are visible in the background. A text at the top of the image says, "Early Sunday Mass, Camp Wolters, Texas." A handwritten note on the back says, "from Ted Gurney."
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pictorial History of Fort Wolters, Volume 7: Heliports, Stagefields, Directory (open access)

Pictorial History of Fort Wolters, Volume 7: Heliports, Stagefields, Directory

This volume consists of photographs and diagrams of stage fields such as Sundance, Mustang, Rawhide, Da Nang, Phu Loi, Soc Trang, and many others. The U.S. Army Primary Helicopter School utilized approximately 1,350 square miles of airspace.
Date: unknown
Creator: Casper, Willie H. Jr.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pictorial History of Fort Wolters, Volume 6:  Civilian Personnel (open access)

Pictorial History of Fort Wolters, Volume 6: Civilian Personnel

This volume consists of photographs of civilian employees at Fort Wolters, with a few of their biographies.
Date: unknown
Creator: Casper, Willie H., Jr.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pictorial History of Fort Wolters, Volume 5:  Military Personnel: Awards, Promotions, Retirements (open access)

Pictorial History of Fort Wolters, Volume 5: Military Personnel: Awards, Promotions, Retirements

This volume consists of photographs of personnel receiving awards, promotions, and retirements.
Date: unknown
Creator: Casper, Willie H., Jr.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pictorial History of Fort Wolters, Volume 4:  Army Primary Helicopter School, Officer Graduation Class (open access)

Pictorial History of Fort Wolters, Volume 4: Army Primary Helicopter School, Officer Graduation Class

This volume includes a document that was the first official written notice designating Wolters as a Fort, dated June 4, 1963. It also includes biographies, and photographs of graduating pilot classes.
Date: unknown
Creator: Casper, Willie H., Jr.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pictorial History of Fort Wolters, Volume 3: Primary Helicopter Center Facility (open access)

Pictorial History of Fort Wolters, Volume 3: Primary Helicopter Center Facility

This volume includes a list of abbreviations, a list of Fort Wolters buildings and facilities (with square footage and cost of construction), a detailed history of Fort Wolters; and information on recreational activities, such as the Fort Wolter's Boots & Saddle Club, the Bowling Alley, and Skeet Range.
Date: unknown
Creator: Casper, Willie H., Jr.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pictorial History of Fort Wolters, Volume 2: Primary Helicopter Center Personnel (open access)

Pictorial History of Fort Wolters, Volume 2: Primary Helicopter Center Personnel

This volume includes a list of U.S. Army Primary Helicopter School Commandants from 1961-1973, with biographies and photographs of some personnel.
Date: unknown
Creator: Casper, Willie H., Jr.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pictorial History of Fort Wolters, Volume 1: Infantry Replacement Training Center (open access)

Pictorial History of Fort Wolters, Volume 1: Infantry Replacement Training Center

This volume includes a time-line of events that took place in Fort Wolters from 1921 to 1973, including biographies of personnel, photographs, diagrams and a Roster of Infantry Replacement Center Officers from 1941.
Date: unknown
Creator: Casper, Willie H., Jr.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Atmosphere and Temperature (open access)

Atmosphere and Temperature

This booklet gives an overview of atmosphere and temperature as they relate to aviation. According to the scope notes on the title page, it includes information about "Pressure scale measurement, isobars, forces that affect winds, high and low pressure systems and associate weather[-]formation prevailing wind belts." The text also has self-evaluation questions printed throughout, with the answers printed on the last page.
Date: January 1971
Creator: Christy, J. J.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Air Masses (open access)

Air Masses

This booklet gives an overview of air masses as they relate to aviation. According to the scope notes on the title page, it includes an "Explanation of the classification of air masses; weather associated with particular air masses; [and the] trajectory and source region of air masses that invade the United States." The text also has self-evaluation questions printed throughout, with the answers printed on the last page.
Date: February 1971
Creator: Snyder, Henry W.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Frontal Weather (open access)

Frontal Weather

This booklet gives an overview of frontal weather as it relates to aviation. According to the scope notes on the title page, it includes a "Discussion of frontal weather systems to include identification, characteristics and flight techniques to be used when penetrating a given frontal system." The text also has self-evaluation questions printed throughout, with the answers printed on the last page.
Date: February 1970
Creator: Simmons, Jerry A. & Maerk, Al
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Winds Aloft (open access)

Winds Aloft

This booklet gives an overview of winds aloft, as they relate to aviation. According to the scope notes on the title page, it includes information about "Winds aloft, modes of observation, forecasts and charts." The text also has self-evaluation questions printed throughout, with the answers printed on the last page.
Date: May 1971
Creator: Snyder, Henry W.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Teletype Sequence Reports (open access)

Teletype Sequence Reports

This booklet gives an overview of teletype sequence reports as they relate to aviation. According to the scope notes on the title page, it includes "A complete explanation of the symbols and abbreviations used in teletype sequence reports." The text also has self-evaluation questions printed throughout, with the answers printed on the last page.
Date: January 1970
Creator: Christy; Myers; Sukalski; Randall, Guy & Maerk, A. E.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pressure and Wind (open access)

Pressure and Wind

This booklet gives an overview of pressure and wind as they relate to aviation. According to the scope notes on the title page, it includes an "Explanation of the effects of pressure in the atmosphere to include altimeter error, identity of the standard reference plane, identity of and weather connected with high and low pressure systems plus associated winds." The text also has self-evaluation questions printed throughout, with the answers printed on the last page.
Date: May 1971
Creator: Christy, J. J.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Moisture and Clouds (open access)

Moisture and Clouds

This booklet gives an overview of moisture and cloud formations as they relate to aviation. According to the scope notes on the title page, it includes information about "Cloud formation, international classification, abbreviations, and symbols" as well as "General flight conditions associated with stratiform and cumuliform clouds." The text also has self-evaluation questions printed throughout, with the answers printed on the last page.
Date: June 1971
Creator: Christy, J. J.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Icing (open access)

Icing

This booklet gives an overview of icing as it relates to aviation. It includes information on "Three types of icing and associated cloud formations and temperatures" as well as "Hazards and flight procedures in icing", according to the scope notes on the title page. The text also has self-evaluation questions printed throughout, with the answers printed on the last page.
Date: February 1971
Creator: Snyder, Henry W.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fog (open access)

Fog

This booklet gives an overview of fog as it relates to aviation. According to the scope notes on the title page, it includes information about "Types of fog and factors for formation and dissipation; flight procedures when fog has been forecasted or encountered en route"; and the en-route weather aids available to the aviator." The text also has self-evaluation questions printed throughout, with the answers printed on the last page.
Date: January 1970
Creator: Turgeon; Sukalski & Maerk, A.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History