Oral History Interview with Robinson R. Norris, June 12, 1976 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Robinson R. Norris, June 12, 1976

Interview with Robinson Norris, an Army veteran, concerning his experiences at Fort Shafter with the 64th Coast Artillery during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date: June 12, 1976
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Norris, Robinson R.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, December 1, 1944] (open access)

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, December 1, 1944]

Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes discussing being snowed-in in Lincoln, NE, flying from there to Dallas in a P-51, a crate of oranges from the recipient, recent correspondence, ferrying more P-51s, her uniform, planning to visit with Jackie Cochran, and plans for after the WASP are disbanded. Typed on Sheraton Hotel stationary.
Date: December 1, 1944
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Timeline of Cornelia Yerkes Kafka's World War II service] (open access)

[Timeline of Cornelia Yerkes Kafka's World War II service]

A handwritten timeline with details of Cornelia Yerkes' service as a WASP and Red Cross worker in World War II, with details on her training, duty stations, aircraft and routes flown, and some personal details.
Date: 2000~/2009~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Telegram from Jacqueline Cochran to Cornelia Yerkes, February 5, 1943] (open access)

[Telegram from Jacqueline Cochran to Cornelia Yerkes, February 5, 1943]

Telegram sent to Cornelia Yerkes from Jacqueline Cochran discussing medical forms.
Date: February 5, 1943
Creator: Cochran, Jacqueline
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, December 20, 1943?] (open access)

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, December 20, 1943?]

Letter from Cornelia Yerkes written on Aitchison Topeka & Santa Fe stationary, discussing her trip to Wichita, visits with people in Dallas and Atlanta, traveling to Richmond, and her anxiety about having to fly over New York City.
Date: 1943-12-20?
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, December 15, 1944] (open access)

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, December 15, 1944]

Letter from Cornelia Yerkes discussing flying from Wichita to Atlanta, visiting with people there, flying to Richmond, and future plans. Written on Hotel John Marshall (Richmond) stationary.
Date: December 15, 1944
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, February 1943?] (open access)

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, February 1943?]

Letter from Cornelia Yerkes discussing money, transferring bank accounts from Atlanta to Sweetwater, passing a check flight, staying in sickbay, news from home, a student pilot's poetry, practicing stalls, sending mail, and nurses.
Date: 1943-02~
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, August 28, 1943?] (open access)

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, August 28, 1943?]

Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes typed on Hotel Texas (Fort Worth) stationary, discussing finances, a rumor that the WASPs will become proper Army officers, Army instructions, and life at her new base.
Date: 1943-08-28?
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to Fred G. and Frances Yerkes, August 3, 1943] (open access)

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to Fred G. and Frances Yerkes, August 3, 1943]

Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to her parents discussing her request to be stationed in Dallas instead of Wilmington, possibilities for visiting home, graduation of her class at Avenger Field and the climate in Sweetwater, her classmates' assignments, and other related news.
Date: August 3, 1943
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, March 17, 1943] (open access)

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, March 17, 1943]

Letter from Cornelia Yerkes discussing leaving sick bay, flight training, recent correspondence, pay, her weight, and classmates.
Date: March 17, 1943
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, November 11, 1944] (open access)

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, November 11, 1944]

Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes discussing having to spend the night in Decatur, GA, with an Army officer's family due to a mechanical issue with her plane, flying out, getting a P-63, and encountering a friend. Typed on Hotel Sheraton stationary.
Date: November 11, 1944
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to Fred G. and Frances Yerkes, August 12, 1944] (open access)

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to Fred G. and Frances Yerkes, August 12, 1944]

Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes to her parents discussing recently visiting them, traveling to Dallas via Atlanta, flying, and news about friends and family. Written on Eastern Airlines stationary.
Date: August 12, 1944
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, December 13, 1944] (open access)

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, December 13, 1944]

Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes discussing flying across the country and the coming end of the WASP program. Written on Hotel Heidelberg (Jackson, MS) stationary.
Date: December 13, 1944
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, January 30, 1944] (open access)

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, January 30, 1944]

Letter from Cornelia Yerkes discussing flying to Atlanta, trying to call her ex-husband, a party, flying to Dallas, problems with her radio, grounded airliners, and Dutch student pilots at Jackson Army Air Field. Written on Delta Air Lines stationary.
Date: January 30, 1944
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[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
[Packet Items to Paul A. Hill] (open access)

[Packet Items to Paul A. Hill]

A collection of various military orders and documents pertaining to Paul A. Hill's Air Force and Air Reserve service.
Date: 1945-10-09/1958-08-12
Creator: United States. Air Force.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Aircraft Delivery Orders #2] (open access)

[Aircraft Delivery Orders #2]

Orders for several Air Force and WASP pilots to ferry planes from Love Field in Dallas, Texas to Moultrie, Georgia, San Antonio, Texas, and Fort Worth, Texas. The three WASP pilots are Gayle D. Ewing, Nadine B. Ramsey, and Helen A. Turner.
Date: August 24, 1944
Creator: 555th Army Air Forces Base Unit - 5th Ferrying Group
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Aircraft Delivery Memorandum #2] (open access)

[Aircraft Delivery Memorandum #2]

Orders for WASP Gayle D. Ewing to ferry an AT-6 aircraft from Dallas, Texas to Spence Field Air Force base in Moultrie, Georgia.
Date: May 29, 1944
Creator: 555th Army Air Forces Base Unit - 5th Ferrying Group
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Special Orders Number 80, Extract 2] (open access)

[Special Orders Number 80, Extract 2]

Special orders extract reassigning several Women Airforce Service Pilots to new stations and agreeing to pay them by the mile flown or to reimburse them for expenses incurred while traveling.
Date: September 16, 1944
Creator: Pinkston, Sid C. & Pinkston, Sid C.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Helen Wyatt Snapp W.A.S.P. 43-W-4 B-17F Memphis Belle (open access)

Helen Wyatt Snapp W.A.S.P. 43-W-4 B-17F Memphis Belle

An autobiography of Helen Snapp. There a photo of the B-17F Memphis Belle above the text with tail number 124485, and a portrait of Helen Snapp on the right side.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Frances Rohrer Sargent (open access)

Frances Rohrer Sargent

Information about WASP Frances Rohrer Sargent. Topics include her growing up, her stations while a WASP, and her life after the WASP disbanded. There is also a picture of Sargent about halfway down the page on the left.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Helen Wyatt Snapp in Her Own Words (open access)

Helen Wyatt Snapp in Her Own Words

A document about Helen Snapp in her own words. She describes growing up, and her inspiration to become a pilot. She also mentions her stations while enlisted and her life after the WASP disbanded. There is also a picture of Snapp about halfway down the page on the left.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

Oral History Interview with William J. Bates, February 7, 2001

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Interview with Navy veteran William J. Bates including personal experiences about the Pacific Theater during World War II, youth and education, the Navy Aviation Cadet Program, flight training, leaving naval aviation and attending Midshipman's School, being assigned to APc-21, operations off the coast of New Guinea with the VII Amphibious Force, providing escort duty for LCTs during assaults along the coast of New Guinea, the sinking of APc-21 by Japanese planes off New Britain Island, recuperating in New Guinea, returning to the States and being assigned to ATR-22, transferring to fleet tug ARA-182 as commanding officer, having convoy duty in the South Pacific, riding out a typhoon, disposing of Navy equipment after the war, and returning to the States.
Date: February 7, 2001
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Bates, William J.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with John L. Bates, Jr., September 21, 2003

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Interview with attorney and Army veteran John L. Bates Jr. The Interview includes Bates' personal experiences in the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II, Officer Candidate School, being selected for the Counter Intelligence Corps, British Intelligence School, assignment to Kweiyang, China, the end of the war and his transfer to the War Crimes Section as an Assistant Theater Judge Advocate, his assignment to Hankow to investigate the executions of three of Jimmy Doolittle's pilots and to Formosa to investigate war crimes, dealing with Japanese military personnel accused of committing atrocities against Allied POWs on Formosa, and his postwar career in the Army Reserve.
Date: September 21, 2003
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Bates, John L., Jr.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library