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[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, June 5, 1943]
Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes discussing recent correspondence, navigation training, and other work that student pilots have to do.
Date:
June 5, 1943
Creator:
Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, June 5, 1943]
Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes discussing a picture of her training class in a Sweetwater TX newspaper, a Chinese student pilot who got lost on a sortie, and her routine. Typed on folded stationary.
Date:
June 5, 1943
Creator:
Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Card from Cornelia Yerkes to Fred G. Yerkes, June 17, 1943]
A father's day card from Cornelia Yerkes to her father discussing clothing, a visit from aviator Nancy Love, the Women Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron, and her future. The card features a cartoon of a girl saying "I may not be no mental whizz, but dad, I know what day this is!"
Date:
June 17, 1943
Creator:
Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, June 10, 1943]
Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes responding to goings-on at home and discussing instrument flying with other students in flight training.
Date:
June 10, 1943
Creator:
Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to Frances Yerkes, June 22, 1943]
Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to her mother discussing her car, a cross-country flight, accidents by student pilots, the heat, naps, and pay.
Date:
June 22, 1943
Creator:
Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Dale Martin to Women Airforce Service Pilot veterans, June 20, 1972]
Letter from Dale Martin, president of the Sweetwater Chamber of Commerce, extending well-wishes to the participants of the 1972 WASP reunion.
Date:
June 20, 1972
Creator:
Martin, Dale
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, June 6, 1944]
Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes discussing flying out of Kansas City, news about the invasion of Normandy, her friend Nancy Nesbitt, recent correspondence, flying P-51s at high altitude, books, physical examinations, and her friend Bobby's marriage. Typed on the back of official memo cards.
Date:
June 6, 1944, 1:00 p.m.
Creator:
Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, June 21, 1943]
Letter from Cornelia Yerkes discussing her typewriter, flying, money, needing more planes, liberty, and her schedule.
Date:
June 21, 1943
Creator:
Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, June 25, 1943]
Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, possibly to her father, discussing a cross-country flight to finish basic flight training, schedules, advanced courses, the recipient's health, packages from home, a plane catching fire, and news about friends/family.
Date:
June 25, 1943
Creator:
Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, June 28, 1943]
Letter from Cornelia Yerkes discussing selling her car, the countryside, trainer aircraft, Sweetwater locals, and recent correspondence.
Date:
June 28, 1943
Creator:
Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, June 13, 1943]
Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes, most likely to her parents, discussing stationary, gifts, finding a lamb, sleep, flight training, where she will be stationed, graduation exercises, her car and car insurance, a letter from her friend Howard Boice, and not getting any leave time. Typed on USO "Easter Greetings" stationary.
Date:
June 13, 1943
Creator:
Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, June 23, 1943]
Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes discussing correspondence from friends, flight training, giving other students rides in her car, and her flight instructor.
Date:
June 23, 1943
Creator:
Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, June 3, 1943?]
Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes discussing cross-country flying, night flying, other aspects of training, her schedule and living conditions.
Date:
1943-06-03?
Creator:
Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Telegram from Jobie to Charles A. Prince, June 17, 1942]
Copy of telegram from "Jobie" to Charles A. Prince discussing gaining permission from the War Department Board to begin installation of telephone equipment at the air field facilities in Sweetwater.
Date:
June 17, 1942
Creator:
Plosser, Joseph B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from R. C. Hoppe to Joe B. Plosser and Charles A. Prince, June 11, 1942]
Copy of a letter from R. C. Hoppe to Joe B. Plosser and Charles A. Prince discussing Hoppe's disapproval of the price for the type of pipe being used for a water line being laid on the site of Avenger Field.
Date:
June 11, 1942
Creator:
Hoppe, R. C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from R. C. Hoppe to J. Wendall Coombs, June 24, 1942]
Copy of a letter from R. C. Hoppe to J. Wendall Coombs discussing a lack of supervision and inspection by architectural or engineering inspectors on one of the Defense Plant Corporation's construction projects.
Date:
June 24, 1942
Creator:
Hoppe, R. C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Telegram from Coombs and Knowles, June 22, 1942]
Copy of telegram from Coombs and Knowles discussing whether the utilities companies or Defense Plant Corporation should pay for and have ownership of things such as telephone line extensions at Plosser Prince Air Academy.
Date:
June 22, 1942
Creator:
Knowles, M. H. & Coombs, J. Wendall
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from M. H. Knowles to Plosser and Prince, June 5, 1942]
Copy of a letter from M. H. Knowles to Plosser and Prince discussing the mandatory procedures for ordering lumber for construction of the Plosser-Prince Air Academy.
Date:
June 5, 1942
Creator:
Knowles, M. H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Telegram from O. P. Echols to Plosser Prince Air Academy, June 30, 1942]
Copy of telegram from O. P. Echols to Plosser Prince Air Academy requesting that Texas and Pacific Railroad forward a letter to Colonel Valandt explaining an issue related to gasoline and the railway spur being constructed near the Academy.
Date:
June 30, 1942
Creator:
Echols, Oliver P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Charles A. Prince to Victor J. Nelson, June 6, 1942]
Copy of a letter from Charles A. Prince to Victor J. Nelson requesting the completed plans for the construction of Avenger Field.
Date:
June 6, 1942
Creator:
Prince, Charles A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Plosser-Prince Air Academy to M. H. Knowles, June 30, 1942]
Copy of a letter from Plosser-Prince Air Academy to M. H. Knowles discussing contract negotiations for the construction of a spur of railroad track.
Date:
June 30, 1942
Creator:
Plosser-Prince Air Academy
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from J. D. Holbrook to Plosser and Prince, June 23, 1942]
Copy of a letter from J. D. Holbrook to Plosser and Prince discussing gas leaks at the Plosser-Prince Air Academy at Sweetwater Municipal Airport.
Date:
June 23, 1942
Creator:
Holbrook, J. D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Charles A. Prince to Josephine Pinson, June 1, 1942]
Copy of a letter from Charles A. Prince to Josephine Pinson discussing placing orders with both Levy Brothers and Penney Company for bedding materials for Plosser-Prince Air Academy.
Date:
June 1, 1942
Creator:
Prince, Charles A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from J. C. Pinson to Charles A. Prince, June 10, 1942]
Copy of a letter from J. C. Pinson to Charles A. Prince discussing the installation of telephone facilities at the site of Plosser and Prince's flying school in Sweetwater, Texas.
Date:
June 10, 1942
Creator:
Pinson, J. C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History