[Paul A. Hill Air Force Documents] (open access)

[Paul A. Hill Air Force Documents]

A collection of various military orders and documents pertaining to Paul A. Hill's Air Force and Air Reserve service.
Date: 1929-09-18/1955-02-03
Creator: Hill, Paul A.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Captain Merrill Smith to his wife - September 8, 1943] (open access)

[Letter from Captain Merrill Smith to his wife - September 8, 1943]

Letter from Captain Merrill Smith to his wife discussing Colonel Kelly's son's victory in the North Africa campaign.
Date: September 8, 1943
Creator: Smith, Merrill
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Captain Merrill Smith to his wife - September 14, 1943] (open access)

[Letter from Captain Merrill Smith to his wife - September 14, 1943]

Letter from Captain Merrill Smith to his wife discussing the money he sent to her on the first.
Date: September 14, 1943
Creator: Smith, Merrill
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Captain Merrill Smith to his wife - September 23, 1943] (open access)

[Letter from Captain Merrill Smith to his wife - September 23, 1943]

Letter from Captain Merrill Smith to his wife informing her that his mother planned on visiting her and briefly mentioning her golf skills.
Date: September 23, 1943
Creator: Smith, Merrill
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Captain Merrill Smith to his wife - September 26, 1943] (open access)

[Letter from Captain Merrill Smith to his wife - September 26, 1943]

Letter from Captain Merrill Smith to his wife about a dinner he cooked over a campfire, swimming, and Sharon.
Date: September 26, 1943
Creator: Smith, Merrill
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Postcard of Woman and Airplane Cartoon]

Postcard with a cartoon of a plane landing next to a woman, and text that says "It's plane to see...I'd like a letter from you!" A handwritten note addressed to Mrs. Clara Aten & Family from Nevin E. Herminger says "Dear Friends: I received your card, glad to hear from you. So you're having frosts up there, I guess we won't have any here, it is too warm here. Glad to hear the war loan is going good up there. Hope it does everywhere. It rained Fri. a little here, the first since we're out here I almost forgot what rain looked like. Ha. It is still wet. Nevin."
Date: September 26, 1943
Creator: Hermsinger, Nevin E.
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Captain Merrill Smith to his wife - September 28, 1943] (open access)

[Letter from Captain Merrill Smith to his wife - September 28, 1943]

Letter from Captain Merrill Smith to his wife discussing what it is like for some soldiers to be deployed for months on end.
Date: September 28, 1943
Creator: Smith, Merrill
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, September 6, 1944] (open access)

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, September 6, 1944]

Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes discussing recent flying, being grounded in Long Beach by bad weather, borrowing a typewriter, mud, a large batch of fighters to be ferried to South America, dreams, and beds.
Date: September 6, 1944
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, September 7, 1944?] (open access)

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, September 7, 1944?]

Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes discussing treating a bad tooth ache, ferrying aircraft, and a pilot friend getting an award.
Date: 1944-09-07?
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Postcard from Cornelia Yerkes to Fred G. and Frances Yerkes, September 8, 1944]

Postcard from WASP Cornelia Yerkes to her parents discussing picking up a plane in Long Beach. The postcard features an image of a silver DC-3 with red trim in flight.
Date: September 8, 1944
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Air Reserve Orders Number E-9250] (open access)

[Air Reserve Orders Number E-9250]

Reserve orders for Captain Marjorie Wakeham promoting her to reserve status in the United States Air Force.
Date: September 12, 1963
Creator: Ford, Denver R.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: Women At War] (open access)

[Clipping: Women At War]

Newspaper clipping describing the experiences of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.) including their activities after the group was deactivated and their fight for militarization.
Date: September 14, 1975
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Group Petition #1] (open access)

[Group Petition #1]

Petition addressed to the Board of Directors, Order of Fifinella, Women Airforce Service Pilots of WWII, from ten members living in Texas. The petition includes a list of nine concerns, including the reinstatement of the nonprofit organization in California and the removal of the Fifinella logo from the newsletter. The signatures found at the bottom of the page include the member's WASP class and street address.
Date: 1979-09~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Group Petition #2] (open access)

[Group Petition #2]

Petition addressed to the Board of Directors, Order of Fifinella, Women Airforce Service Pilots of WWII and circulated to the WASP class secretaries. The petition includes a list of nine concerns, including the reinstatement of the nonprofit organization in California and the removal of the Fifinella logo from the newsletter. This version of the petition does not include the Texas Ten's signatures.
Date: 1979-09~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Group Petition #3] (open access)

[Group Petition #3]

Petition addressed to the Board of Directors, Order of Fifinella, Women Airforce Service Pilots of WWII, from ten members living in Texas. The petition includes a list of nine concerns, including the reinstatement of the nonprofit organization in California and the removal of the Fifinella logo from the newsletter. The signatures found at the bottom of the page include the member's WASP class and street address.
Date: 1979-09~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Group Petition #4] (open access)

[Group Petition #4]

Petition addressed to the Board of Directors, Order of Fifinella, Women Airforce Service Pilots of WWII, from ten members living in Texas. The petition includes a list of nine concerns, including the reinstatement of the nonprofit organization in California and the removal of the Fifinella logo from the newsletter.
Date: 1979-09~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Lillian Roberts to Marie Genaro and the "Texas Ten Petitioners," September 17, 1979] (open access)

[Letter from Lillian Roberts to Marie Genaro and the "Texas Ten Petitioners," September 17, 1979]

Letter from Lillian Roberts to Marie Genaro and nine other WASP veterans addressing and refuting accusations of misconduct in the the Order of Fifinella, including matters of taxation, spending, newsletter design, and other supposed issues.
Date: September 17, 1979
Creator: Roberts, Lillian
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Crowd of People Releasing Balloons]

Photograph of a crowd of people releasing yellow, blue, and white balloons. There is a large pavilion in the left-background, behind which are palm trees, with another building and more trees in the right-background.
Date: 1984-09?
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Crowd of People With Balloons]

Photograph of a crowd of people preparing to release yellow, blue, and white balloons. There is a large pavilion in the left-background, behind which are palm trees.
Date: 1984-09?
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Crowd of People with Balloons]

Photograph of a crowd of people holding blue, yellow, and white balloons. Behind them some palm trees and a building are visible.
Date: 1984-09?
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Crowd with Balloons in Street]

Photograph of a crowd of mostly older people standing on and near a street and carrying white, yellow, and blue balloons. Palm trees are visible behind them, and a building can be seen on the right edge of the frame.
Date: 1984-09?
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Released Balloons]

Photograph of white, golden, and blue balloons that have been released into the sky. There is a tree in the bottom right.
Date: 1984-09?
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Three WASP Veterans Sitting]

Photograph of three smiling WASP veterans sitting in folding chars. The left and middle woman are wearing name tags with WASP wings on them.
Date: 1984-09?
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Three Women Releasing Balloons]

Photograph of three WASP veterans standing by a parked station wagon, smiling as they release three balloons together. A single story house of postwar design is visible behind them.
Date: 1984-09?
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History