[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to family, March 9, 1943] (open access)

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to family, March 9, 1943]

Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes to her family discussing recent correspondence, visiting friends, Phil Kafka, Sweetwater, her living accommodations, flying, Jacqueline Cochran, and check flights.
Date: March 9, 1943
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History

Oral History Interview with Gale E. Nevill, March 23, 1999

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Interview with Gale E. Nevill, a Army WWII veteran from Houston, Texas. Nevill discusses his family background and upbringing, jobs in the oil business, joining the National Guard, attending Rice University, getting commissioned, overseeing a Civilian Conservation Corps camp, working through the Depression, activation and assignment to 6th Army HQ, deployment to Brisbane, 6th Army operations in the South Pacific and Philippines, the end of the war and life afterwards.
Date: March 23, 1999
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Nevill, Gale Erwin
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Clipping: WWII WASP recalls her high-flying days] (open access)

[Clipping: WWII WASP recalls her high-flying days]

Newspaper clipping describing Florence Watson's visit to Zundy Junior High in Wichita Falls, Texas. The clipping also includes a brief summary of Ms. Watson's experiences as a WASP and a photograph of her with the students.
Date: March 10, 2002
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Women in Front of Palm Tree]

Photograph of four women standing in front a palm tree and each holding what appears to be ice cream cones or snow cones. Handwritten notes on the back of the photo read, "Evelyn Laesch, Mabel Rawbinson, Bertha Link, me- Dorothy Christenson", "In court of Almsted, 8700, S Main Houston, Tex", "March 1943".
Date: March 1943
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Five Women Sitting in Field]

Photograph of five women sitting in a field outside several buildings. Notes written on the back read, "Bertha Link, Mabel Rawbinson, Evelyn Laesch, 43W3, March 1943, Houston".
Date: March 1943
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from John Todd Willis, Jr. to Joe S. Lattimore, March 1, 1945] (open access)

[Letter from John Todd Willis, Jr. to Joe S. Lattimore, March 1, 1945]

Letter from John Todd Willis, Jr. to Joe S. Lattimore at Baylor University College of Medicine, on March 1, 1945, lamenting the number of hunting seasons he's missed. He says he has a friend who's uncle owns a pasture they can rent out when they get back from the war, and asks Lattimore to go with him.
Date: March 1, 1945
Creator: Willis, John Todd, Jr.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History